Happy aromantic awareness month featuring Yuji Itadori and Ryomen Sukuna as aroace
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Happy aromantic awareness month featuring Yuji Itadori and Ryomen Sukuna as aroace
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I hate it when they give Uraume credit for Sukuna's decision to become a better person in his next life, that credit is ONLY Yuuji's. Yuuji managed to change Sukuna's ideology from the moment he decided to show him compassion and love. Besides, their souls are connected, Sukuna called him the refuge of his soul for a reason.
I agree with you anon.. It was only because of yuji's genuine compassion and desire to help sukuna, a curse helped him change his way of life.. It was yuji who told him to live a life without cursing anyone not uraume and Sukuna accepted it ..If anything uraume too got the benefit. Uraume couldn't change him at all and him deciding to become a cursed object is proof of that...sukuna clearly said they were an opportunity they REJECTED..
In 248 sukuna clearly said yuji is the reason he changed. That he never was able to understand others till he shared body with yuji.. In 266 , sukuna expressed that he was surprised to see how much he hated being pitied suggesting that was the first time he ever felt like this.... Uraume didn't make him confront his true feelings like yuji did.. Not just that sukuna never really shared what he was feeling in his heart with them. They didn't even know about sukuna being a twin .. Sukuna strictly saw them as subordinates.
Tbh uraume couldn't have ever done that.. They literally moulded themselves so they can stay by sukuna's side as they realized that sukuna wouldn't allow a weak person to stay by their side.. They adopted sukuna's ideology. They obediently followed sukuna. with this kind of personality they could have never changed sukuna..That's why sukuna decided to guide them towards the reincarnation path so they too could start anew..
And the fact that it's yuji who's with sukuna on that dance art and not uraume makes it very clear.. I see that as nothing but a deliberate attempt to undermine yuji's effort maybe by yuji haters or the said ship's shippers..
People in this fandom don't seem to understand that the relationship between Sukuna and Yuuji is not a family one, in the manga their bond was NEVER treated that way, Gege also doesn't refer to them as "uncle and nephew" that's purely a fandom thing, a headcanon.
Yuuji is basically an experiment by Kenjaku, he was created to be a vessel for Sukuna, that's why it took him a thousand years to be created. And I don't even have anything against incest in fiction, it's just that SukuIta can't be "incest" because for a relationship to be considered incestuous to begin with there must be a blood connection and Yuuji and Sukuna do NOT have a blood link, it's their souls that are connected, (something the manga has emphasized).
And something that makes me laugh is the people who get mad because "there aren't enough wholesome fan arts of Yuuji and Sukuna as a family", I got fucking news for you, their canonical relationship is NOT wholesome either, it's complicated and arguably even somewhat toxic. This fandom is full of dickheads.
Well said anon.. You have explained it perfectly..
I agree with that uncle nephew being a headcanon thing.. Fandom acts like it's a big thing but when you read the manga it's not. Sukuna's behaviour towards yuji remained the same . For him it just explained why yuji had immense strength.. Uraume too after learning the truth wondered if yuji had the same potential as sukuna.. None of them said yuji is his nephew or something...
Then we have Kenny who clearly said yuji's purpose was to be a vessel.. Pretty sure he wasn't trying to give sukuna a family.. Forget about yuji sukuna didn't acknowledge his actual twin's reincarnation nd called him a fragment. Even when he was in the afterlife
Now it's not just that ,no where in story you will see gege focussing on that stuff. For example, todo said to arata that yuji is his brother but we see arata questioning that, but on the other hand none of the characters points out the so called similarity between yuji and sukuna. Now what does that tell us???
They only talk about their soul connection or yuji being good at adapting things coz of sukuna..So to me that can mean only one thing and that is we are not supposed to see their relationship solely as familial one.
Apart from that sukuna's twin involvement doesn't really affect the nature of their dynamic.. If anything it helped yuji to understand sukuna's perspective as this the reason yuji was born cursed and in the last chap he clearly acknowledges it.. And like you said it only makes their relationship complicated which fandom loves to simplify all the time..
This fandom is OBSESSED with turning regular characters into family for no reason and treating it as canon. I remember them being totally convinced that yuji sukuna are twins before the reveal and then crying and insulting gege when that didn't happen and even though we already had seen that topic being addressed through maki mai .. Like to them it doesn't matter whether the author addresses it or not in the story.. I mean if gege wanted readers to see them as family trust me we would have known.... But he didn't. All we see is him emphasizing how fucked up it is in nature and their soul link only complicated it further..
Their relationship IS toxic. It doesn't look like that most of the time because yuji handled it pretty well. Otherwise we have seen what sukuna does when he's the one in control through megumi.. Although yuji completely turned it into something beautiful as we can see in the yorube dance art.
You see them as family good for you but they are not. Maybe if gege said it then I would accept it. Otherwise there is no reason to.
I am amazed at the huge amount of official SukuIta merchandise out there (made by Mappa and by Gege). I mean, Sukuna has important canonical relationships or interactions with various characters besides Yuuji: Uraume, Gojo, Megumi, Yorozu and Kenjaku but he never shares merchandise with any of them (except for those rings and perfumes that came out of Gojo and Sukuna), 90% of Sukuna's official merchandise is next to Yuuji. There's also the fact that Japanese fandom considers the song Sukuna dedicates to Yuuji Specialz; the manga started and ended with Sukuna, the most important relationship in the manga is that of Sukuna and Yuuji, (the Shinjuku arc, the last two covers and the Yorube illustration prove it).
What I want to get to is that, the SukuIta is basically what Jujutsu Kaisen revolves around, which makes me feel even more excited when the anime arrives because I know for sure that Mappa is going to add a lot of SukuIta fanservice, mark my words and take this comment captured, there is going to be an ending dedicated to Yuuji and Sukuna dancing under the snow š«¢š©·.
You are right anon.. I have been noticing this since the official art for tokyo exhibition was released that had yuji sukuna together. As I was genuinely surprised because I never expected sukuna to be there with yuji. I was expecting gojo because of his popularity or gojo with the trio .. And then we saw how the specialz song became their song when everybody had different opinions, I remember stickers of jjk characters were released snd yuji had his with sukuna . Certainly it's gege who has been doing that, putting sukuna along with yuji wherever he can..
The merchandise I think may skyrocket for sukuna once 212 and gojo Vs sukuna gets animated. But yeah I doubt they gonna separate yuji sukuna considering the amount of interactions they had in manga šš.... Oh and it has already started as they are going to release a photobook that contains record of yuji sukuna battle .. I want them to milk the flk out of it.. š¤š¤
You are so right about the fanservice part. When I saw the yorube art I knew we are gonna get God level fanservice possibly in season 3 too considering gege himself has given so much to work with but when one of the key animators for jjk dropped yuji sukuna art on new year I was literally like this
Without a doubt these guys are excited too for yuji sukuna fight otherwise they had no reason to draw yuji with heiankuna which is far in the future nd it's season 3 that's in productions.
We are in for a treat anon.. And I am absolutely loving it..

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Yuuji forcing Sukuna to his knees is healing me. Sukuna taking a moment to be a petty dick about it is also healing me.
I still maintain that getting violently fucked by Yuuji in that inmate domain would have fixed Sukunaāor at least kept him from *gestures* all this.
Still can't believe gege became our secret santa and blessed us with this official yuji sukuna art...
Such a wonderful way to end the series and the year... It still feels like a dream ....i think it's safe to say that none of us had never expected that he would do something like that.
when the manga ended I was satisfied but still had this desire to see sukuna reciprocating/acknowledging yuji's kindness but not in the subtle way like he did in the last chapter by accepting to change and not cursing others ... So I was kinda sad and disappointed when there was nothing like that in vol extras...
Then this illustration came out and OH MY GOD.. Sukuna dancing with yuji although irritated still holding yuji by waist , fingers interlocked, mind you this is the same sukuna who doesn't like physical contact but still is as involved in it as yuji.... And then there is yuji my baby happily enjoying the dance or maybe it's sukuna's grumpy face that made him laugh looks so angelic in the snow...which immediately reminded me of this ozawa's epilogue where yuji admitted how snow is still special to him.
... Pretty sure gege did that to tell us that it's because of sukuna yuji finds snow special and to make the art meaningful....
And that quote...in which sukuna is admitting yuji's soul provides him the comfort / has this warm presence .. Which in my opinion is just him calling yuji his home as after yuji's declaration to live with him sukuna has gained a place/ home to which he can always return as yuji would always accept him even if nobody else does....
Btw I saw some jp fans analyzing the quote and the result was this
Gege has used a pretty strong word to describe sukuna's feelings for yuji ... Although it does make sense considering yuji literally offered the king of curses the option to live with him which really shocked him coz all he has ever received is rejection since the day he was born I guess so it was hard for him to accept that there is someone so kind who can accept and wants to share his life with him .. And was the only one who he couldn't break as he never once threw his ideals in search of strength and turned those very ideals into his strength that rattled sukuna to its core....
And there is that acknowledgment that i was really looking for...... After reading this quote, in my mind there was no doubt that yuji and sukuna's bond has turned into something special which can't be replaced by others and shouldn't be restricted to only familial, romantic, platonic love... Their souls are intertwined . Atp they are literal soulmates..
Tbh when I see the art I can't help but think there's more.. There's no way that's it...but even if that's not the case I am fine with it.... I can't be greedy now that I have literally got what I really wanted for my two fav characters..... As a reader I do have problems with some aspects of story but I guess gege already knows that so I guess he will be working on it through anime ..
at first you couldn't stand the idea of an afterlife with him...
but now you want to live the rest of your life with him?
seriously though.
yuuji went from hating him on sight to wanting to take him home with him. and honestly, i can't stop thinking about that.
the time yuuji spent with sukuna showed him there was much more to the monster than he first believed..... the fact that this whole story began with yuuji wanting to consume all 20 fingers so he could kill sukuna but ending with him wanting sukuna to come back to him so they could become one again..... and no, i don't care what anyone else says, it's canon that yuuji genuinely wanted for them to coexist with each other.
also. i just want to point out how full-circle they've become. sukuna screaming "your future is mine, brat!" at the beginning but dying in the end when yuuji offers (not surrenders, not gives in, but truly offers) that future to him. yuuji is willing to give sukuna his heart, soul, and body in the most compassionate, honest sense. it's such a display of kindness and warmth, such softness as yuuji cradles sukuna's remains, that sukuna probably couldn't take it.
i think it was more or less a split-second decision for him. and he chose to die as he was born: a curse.
i could be wrong but it seems to me like yuuji was breaking sukuna's resolve over the last few chapters, especially chapter 265, which focuses a lot on yuuji's empathy for sukuna... and also sukuna's mask starting to slip and reveal more of his contradicting nature.
i can't get over this scene. yuuji wants to talk to sukuna. he asks sukuna to indulge him. and sukuna does.
this entire chapter sukuna is uncharacteristically willing to go along with it. he's listening to yuuji the entire time because he responds to what yuuji is saying even when it's over such small things. and even his insults are for more subdued and strangely sound more affectionate/light-hearted compared to the stuff sukuna is usually spitting out.
i've said it before and i still think it's canon that yuuji has had the most power and influence over sukuna.
sukuna doesn't fight with anyone as closely or possessively as he does with yuuji (he treated todo like an unwelcome third wheel after todo crashed sukuita's violent little date entered the fight). sukuna isn't as moved as he is with others when yuuji challenged his ideals. no, he literally stopped mid-fight to wonder why the brat had such an overwhelming effect on him. he wanted to crush yuuji's ideal apart because they started to make him doubt himself as well.
yuuji gets under sukuna's skin and stays there like a thorn. like the parasite sukuna was supposed to be inside of yuuji. but the brat is now sukuna's own curse.
and i think he knew that if he'd accepted yuuji's offer, that curse would kill him. love is the worst curse of all.
sukuna knows his own nature. he's selfish and evil and cruel. yuuji embodies the opposite of all those qualities: he is the shades of love and hate that are far away from sukuna's mask of indifference. they could coexist but overtime sukuna's persona would begin to erode because yuuji has the most power of anyone else to change him. to make him rethink. and he can't have that. he needs to remain the static cruelty he was made into. he doesn't know any other way and he'd fall apart if yuuji showed him another fate.
it's really tragic when you realize yuuji's soul has been tied to sukuna's for so long. and in a sense, yuuji completes sukuna. he is kind of like the embodiment of the humanity and empathy that was probably forced out of sukuna. he's the missing whole that makes sukuna's whole a matching set. like yin and yang, the opposites that complement each other and cannot be separated.
in both a poetical and literal sense, yuuji was made for sukuna. he understands that they're like reflections of each other, one brighter and one darker. and yuuji still accepted and was willing to bear sukuna's monstrosity. because he saw him. studied him, even. loved him in the most selfless sense of the word.
it's so tragic.... i hate them.

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so wherever Sukuna goes after death, Yuuji will always be a refuge for his soul
not as a vessel but as the only person who accepts Sukuna, who understands him, who wants to share a whole life with him, who asked him to stay and try again
damn, Yuuji will always be his special
Sukuna when others donāt show ENOUGH respect to the King of Curses:
Sukuna when Yuuji⨠doesnāt show any respect but instead challenges him:
hadn't seen it yet, so I did š¹
HATERS- sukuna is disgusted by it blah blah blah...
Meanwhile sukuna calls yuji the refuge for the soul/ the person he can trust himself to or rely on....
So the question is who should we trust????
them or the author who literally drew it as the secret illustration and now it's in the newspaper and on giant billboards in jp on Christmas which is nothing but the jp version of valentines day...
Ummmm.. Yeah I'll go with the author since it makes things easier..
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I just want to say that I really love your analysis on Gojo and Sukuna a lot.
Can I ask for analysis of Sukuna and Yuji dynamics? It's okay if you take awhile to answer this.
(Answered as of JJK 262 using TCB Scans.)
Oh boy this one is fun!
I see Sukuna and Yuji as opposite sides of the same coin. They both have the same kind of tools but wind up at completely different conclusions because of their own personal biases.
By the way, thank you for breaking my brain anon. I'm going to consider this yet another part of my attempt to grasp Sukuna's character.
Sukuna's Loneliness Part 3 (Sukuna's hatred of Yuji is jealousy.)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 4
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Yuji and Sukuna's Shrine
Gege does this really clever thing where kanji used to describe a Cursed Technique (CT) have multiple readings, especially if you look past the initial proposed reading. In a way, this is teaching you how to read the text. The face-value reading, albeit true, hides another reading underneath.