My thoughts on Gojo vs Sukuna
This battle was a long time coming. So of course it does not surprise one when it did.
Though I did feel like Gojo's return was oddly plain. Like he was sealed for a long time (for us as readers) and then he was just out. Now the situation is tricky. Sukuna is already at such a power level and it's hard to justify how long Yuji and the others could survive like this.
And Gojo has no reason to wait too.
The problem to me is that the end of their battle will hardly be satisfying at all.
I saw some say that Gojo had to lose for story purposes but I do not agree with that. We saw in his flashback arc how he failed twice. Once saving Rico and then stopping Geto.
At the beginning of the Shibuya arc, he received another loss in the form of being sealed away.
Sukuna on the other hand only lost once at the beginning which was not even a proper fight.
On top of it, the Shibuya arc really was a disaster more for the Sorcerers than the curses. This arc already ended in the favor of Kenjaku and was a failure for Yuji and his group. So do we really need this arc to go worse before things get better? I don't think so. Again Gojo was gone for a long time for us as readers, only to fail right after? That would be a really bad idea, in my opinion.
If Gojo cannot defeat Sukuna then nobody can and no matter how we are going to see his defeat it would feel unreal if it was not Gojo.
I don't believe that Yuji has to defeat him. Believe it or not, there were never any real indications that he would defeat Sukuna at any point in time. Mahito is his nemesis and he is still alive. Kenjaku only absorbed him, he can still summon Mahito and use him. This means that fighting Kenjaku will finally end the constant conflict between Yuji and Mahito.
There were always parallels between Gojo and Sukuna even the 'Among heaven and earth...' text was used for both of them.
Another thing to point out is that Sukuna is just another factor in this whole series. Like everybody else, he has a role to fulfill. The true antagonist of the story is Kenjaku who has been pulling all the strings up until now. So it makes the most sense for Yuji to fight him.
I like the division that the others will take him on and only Gojo should fight Sukuna. It makes more sense that way. (I don't think we need to fall into that Shounen cliche of the protag to get the strongest opponents, it does not really fit in with JJK)
For me, the best outcome for their fight was always a draw. They would kill each other and there would be no definite answer on who is stronger. Of course, the problem in this fight now is that Sukuna has not his own body.
Killing him would kill Megumi and would Gojo really kill him? Now he said he would not hold back and he clearly is not but does that really mean he would kill him? He knows Megumi for the longest among his students and despite what Toji did to him he still took in his child.
Originally I thought that their battle would make the most sense to be the last in the series.
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