How Sukuna Saved Gojo

CORRECTION: At 10:53, I said Sukuna said the line about teaching love to Yorozu. This line was actually spoken by Yorozu to Sukuna. Thank you to everyone who pointed this out in the comments!

I REALLY love this analysis! I never thought about how lonely Gojo and Sukuna would be as the strongest sorcerers in the world - but it makes total sense. Being at the top, it's so hard for anyone else to relate to you and your struggles. It really makes me wonder how Gege will resolve Sukuna's story...

To me, Sukuna seems like the person who wants more outta life than his desires. But he never had a reason since nothing cause him trouble. He thought he’s given up on finding purpose but that’s exactly why he turned himself into a cursed object. He wants there to be purpose for him in the future since he ruled in his day. And no one ever made him question his purpose/resolve until yuji.

it's funny how a lot of people complain about Gojo's show of his true character in 236, it actually just proves how no one will be able to understand him, not even us, the audience, of his true nature. When he was shown as a highschooler in the afterlife scene, it shows that he never really changed, he is the Gojo that was more happy about the fact that he was pushed to the brink than he was mad over Amanai Riko's assassination. This was Gojo's character. Yes, he could show concern for his students, but he's not as empathetic as people make him out to be. He enjoys being strong, he loves it. He didn't take on the role of the strong protecting the weak until Geto asked him that one specific question, in which bugged him, so much so that he tried to take on Geto's philosophy of "the strong must protect the weak" through his own way; honing strength. He's the strongest because he's Satoru Gojo, he enjoys fighting. He gets high from it. The only reason he had an existential crisis was because a person of the same caliber as him questioned his very own existence. It's no surprise that Gojo tried to find the answer by taking over Geto's shoes (at least the Geto he used to know before the mental breakdown.) It's also quite poetic that Sukuna answered the question for him. He will be remembered as Satoru, not as the strongest.

A fun tidbit about the “are you gojo because…” line is that it is a reference to Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma, which is one of the most famous philosophical writings about ethics. I think this is interesting because it’s a reference to western thought, rather than eastern which most of jjk is about, which i feel is under explored. A TLDR about the euthyphro dilemma is basically the question: what makes something worth doing?

This is why Sukuna's REAL domain is Malevalent Kitchen

Huh, I was always a little hopeful that Gojo will come back because I am attached to his character. (Fangirl denial at it best) But now that I think about it, he really did die in peace. He may not have been able to achieve his (tbh unrealistic) vision of a generation of sorcerers as strong as him, or at least strong enough to survive the jjk world, but I think his motivation for that was to save other people from loneliness and the pain of losing their friends. And in the end, he did not die lonely, he even had fun on the way out.

While I think the Gojo characterization you describe here is accurate, I don't think you're correct about Sukuna for two reasons. The first and most obvious issue is Sukuna straight up says he's note bored, Kashimo wonders if Sukuna's life gets dull and Sukuna notes that the unique flavors of each individual human makes for an amusing pursuit. The idea his life is boring is something normal people assume would be the case and project onto him, but we clearly see this isn't the case given Sukuna is having the time of his life fighting a bunch of people who are obviously not challenging him. I think your conceit of love as a challenge falls flat at least in Sukuna's case because he's very clearly operating on a different system than everyone else. The second is less direct but Sukuna states that folks are projecting their feelings onto him and that he hasn't experienced loneliness or boredom. He's an inhuman calamity and attempting to put him into a human box will always misunderstand him. Gojo, Kashimo, and Yorozu all doubted themselves, all sunk into their fear of being unable to connect with others, all had their initial ideals about the world shaken, and suffered for it whereas Sukuna did not. In fact Sukuna's only shaken when he realizes Yuji's conviction to his ideals is equally unshakable which risks Sukuna questioning his worldview, something he'd find unacceptable. That's basically why he hates Yuji, who is ironically one of the only characters who properly understands that Sukuna is at his heart a petty asshole with no redeeming qualities. Truly a mutual disdain build upon understanding.

Really enjoyed your analysis on Sukuna's mindset/pov, I wld actually look forward to a more indepth video on sukuna esp his relationship with itadori

I really like your video. It’s a thoughtful and thorough interpretation of JJK that really helped me understand these characters better.

I think I know where you're going with this video and I am glad someone is talking about it. That airport scene had so much character work in it.

1 minute in and I love how this is going and we need more analysis of the characters and story as a whole because the fanbase acts like it can't understand what it's been reading for the last few yrs or something,you'd shed light on

This analysis is so spot on. 👌

"Are you fraudulent because you're Satoru Gojo? Or are you Satoru Gojo because you're fraudulent"

You hit the nail on the head with this one bro

10/10 video! I've also had similar thought on Gojo and Sukuna ever since the airport chapter.

Man great analysis!

"I wish more videos like this existed, super awesome, brilliant thoughts."

I feel like I’ve already understood all this but could never put it into exact words. Ty for this video

sukuna cold asf damn, he kinda perfected depression now he just chillin