I wish gojo fans accepted the final fight is okay and Sukuna can be a character outside of gojos rival
(I will use this to ramble........ sorry anon for being 1+ yr late yet again 😅)
Many JJK fans are not beating the allegations.
A lot of people are affected because of their parasocial relationship with their characters to different extents, and that includes me with Sukuna.
That said, many people wanted Satoru to win because of bias.......... he's many people's bias.
Also with how the fight was depicted, Satoru was using Limitless, DE (Unlimited Void) and techniques like RCT and Black Flash to their fullest extent. Meanwhile, Sukuna (MegKuna) uses Ten Shadows a lot with his DE (Malevolent Shrine) while using Shrine, Domain Amplification, and such to an extent. They kept seeing Sukuna as a fraud because he 'relied' so much on 10S especially and barely used Shrine.
But that's the thing they don't realize - Satoru had no choice but to rely on his CT, his battle IQ, his knowledge about 10S, his own jujutsu abilities, and his creativity because those are all what he has; meanwhile Sukuna had multiple choices in his arsenal aside from his battle IQ, adaptability, observation skills, and all.
This is a battle of the Strongest Today vs the Strongest in History. This isn't some sports fight like the NBA, FIFA, or Olympics - no foul, penalty or whatnot in this game.
You bring what you have and fight until one is defeated (in this case, death) or both die regardless of what techniques and abilities they are using, which they did and guess what? Sukuna won because he was alive, he understood the model that Mahoraga did to bypass Limitless, and made an efficient binding vow; that's how he killed Satoru, making him the winner.
And one of the main themes of JJK is that unfairness is the only fairness given to you and everyone, and it depends on what you would do about it to achieve what you want and live your life in this world [while suffering the consequences of doing so].
Megumi mentions unfairness in season 1 and Reggie said something similar in how Jujutsu sorcerers are liars and tricksters, which ties to again, unfairness. Time and time again, we see various characters be put in unfair situations, and they had to deal with it [and suffer the consequences, whether positive or negative, of their actions]
In fact, the fight between Sukuna and Satoru were unfair on both sides. To Satoru, he's facing someone with a super large amount of cursed energy, has multiple jujutsu things in his arsenal because he was inhabiting Megumi's body, and has Megumi hostage; not to mention Sukuna having some binding vow with Kenjaku and who knows at the time what his role was in the culling games. To Sukuna, he's facing someone with a broken CT called, Limitless, has a DE that gives brain damage because of infinite information being sent to your brain if you're too late with expanding your DE or anti-domain technique; and even though he has an idea of the concept of infinity, he has yet no concrete idea on how to bypass it to injure Satoru. They're both in unfair fight but they did that they could to win and achieve their win conditions...... and it resulted in Sukuna winning and Satoru dying in their battle.
I hope this clarifies things to the Gojo vs Sukuna battle, and everyone understands that there was nothing wrong in what transpired in the battle.
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As for Sukuna being his own character outside being Satoru's rival - he always has been his own character. His motivation all this time has been to free himself from his cage (Yuji), to live a second life in another Era [idk wtf Kenjaku said to him so that he accepts becoming cursed objects and incarnating in another era in a vessel - Kenjaku was probably like I have this fun idea and it'll be happening in another era. It's gonna be fun game between sorcerers, so what you say? Sukuna, the hedonist he was, was most likely like BET], and to probably experience what the new era has to offer and how different it is from Heian era (the man's a true hedonist), including fighting jujutsu sorcerers of the current era (the stronger, the better). We even get like hints of his backstory, and what his personality and attitude was like.
And people are like, "Gojo's rival", "Fraud", "Pure Evil", blah blah blah. As if you're not doing what Sukuna's oppressors, the Heian society, were doing - insulting him, boxing him in some labels, and pointing fingers at him. Sorry got a bit emotional there
You really had to read the subtext, implications, his actions and what not, in order to understand his character. Unfortunately, the official translations did mediocre in capturing the essence of the dialogues and what not of the manga, and there's too many misinformation going around.















