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I hate when people say "if yuta was there, it would've been called the shibuya inconvenience," like he wouldnt be off fucking that grasshopper

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turned my baddies (and yuta ig../j) ugly :(

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The only yutamaki I support is yuta x inumaki because my queen maki deserves better than that fraud

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THE YUTA SLANDER IS… KINDA COOKING??

05/06/2026

SLANDER PERCENTAGE: 56.3%

WORD COUNT: 1,079

SOURCE: Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami

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According to the world’s most trusted source Google Gemini, Yuta Okkotsu’s primary ambition is to “protect his friends and the people he cares about” and is “purely selfless.” This objective is commendable, but in the grander scheme of Jujutsu Kaisen, such a benevolent motive starkly contrasts with the anime’s deeper themes. While the fandom nonsensically labels him as a “fraud,” a more fitting label would be a victim of “the system.” Yuta, as a main character, is inherently less developed in his character, compared to the depth found in the other main characters of Jujutsu Kaisen. Yuta’s incentive is shallow and proves his dependence on others; whether it be a preestablished societal system, a peer, or a mentor. In the epilogue of Jujutsu Kaisen, the next heir of the Gojo clan is known to be Yuta (Akutami Chapter 271, "From Now On,"). While this may be a noble act, the subtleties of this arrangement have many other implications. In hindsight, Yuta stated his desire was to carry the burden of "the monster," so to speak, as Gojo had carried it as well. Yuta expressed this in the way he had taken care of the rest of the students in Gojo's stead. However, the manner in which they approached the burden was drastically different. Gojo decided to live as a teacher and reform jujutsu society from the inside and through the future. Yuta, contrastingly, suffered through the burden to protect his comrades, namely by using Gojo's corpse to defeat Sukuna. He risked whether to stay in his body forever or die (Akutami Chapter 261, "Inhuman Makyo Shinjuku Showdown, Part 33,"). This selflessness is admirable, but admittedly inadequate to Gojo's values. As he once stated, "Dying to win and risking death to win, are completely different, Megumi" (Episode 23, "The Origin of Blind Obedience -2-," 10:05). He then elaborates on the necessities of greed, imagining different outcomes as a possibility. Gojo identified the most prominent factor behind Megumi's stagnation at that time, which was the mental comfort of death over the risk of taking gambles. Arguably, the same occurred within Yuta's deeply rooted empathy. Instead of pondering a more viable solution, Yuta confined himself to a determined negative outcome. This is not principled, but conservatism. Yuta's sole objective was to protect, not live long enough to induce reform within jujutsu society. Because of his short-sighted objective, he resorted to a subpar strategy just to obtain the comfort that his friends are protected. If he pressured the frontiers as Gojo had, he would have challenged his own smallminded ideals and a chance to entertain a broader interest—such as protecting the next generation. Instead, he allowed stagnation within jujutsu society because it would at least ensure the safety of his companions, being more of a restrained altruist compared to Gojo's individualism.

In the societal sense, Yuta is ultimately a marionette. For example, his promotion to the Gojo clan's patriarch (Akutami Chapter 271, "From Now On,"). Yuta is technically in relation to Gojo, but as an extremely distant cousin under the ancestry of Michizane Sugawara (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 1:32:22). At that point, Yuta is technically a part of the Gojo clan, but not entirely. However, the truth behind Yuta's promotion is the Gojo clan's obsession with power. Instead of crowning one that bears the Gojo genes—as tradition honors, or one that lives in the Gojo clan's values, they crown the second strongest, who was also seventeen years old. This implies that the Gojo higher ups' primary objective is not to establish a worthy head, but to maintain the authority they had when Gojo Satoru was the head, because they have "the strongest" in their arsenal. This reveals a broader truth about Yuta's position: a figurehead. It is his power that gives him value. Additionally, the higher ups' intent was to claim the strongest as their so-called "leader," meaning that Yuta's original objective, to handle Gojo's burden to protect the others, lacks its sentimental weight. He is, in his deepest roots, a Gojo, so the burden would have been passed on to him anyway. It is not moral duty, but a responsibility. In this dilemma, the choice was his—whether to transform this perception or remain in the shadow of his given purpose. However, his behavior had a trend of lack of agency. Even relationally, his identity was relatively reactive. For example, his introduction to jujutsu society started with Gojo naming his potential and offering him schooling in Jujutsu High (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 2:57). Granted, Yuta was heavily suicidal at the time, and expecting him to configure a life purpose is unrealistic. However, even when he was assured the safety of the other Jujutsu High students, he was unable to conclude what exactly he valued. It was only the propulsion from Maki that he was able to become himself (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 20:27). Even Rika, the reason behind Yuta's self-blame, was supposed to free him so he could reform an identity that was not based on his curse (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 1:31:58). Yet even then, Rika is at the forefront of every single one of his battles, redefining his identity once more to be based on Rika's significance. The main character attributes that Yuta harbors are mainly from others, not himself.

Even in the instances in which Yuta exercised his agency, it lacked the depth that the other characters had. Consider the two other main characters, Megumi and Yuji. Their ambitions twisted them in ways that Yuta lacked. For example, Yuji’s original goal, to help people, gradually delved into a burden—teaching him that it is inherently impossible to be a hero that saves everyone, and through that he brought a multitude of regrets. In season one, Yuji became shockingly aware about the identity he was forming: a cog, yet he accepted it because that was the only way he could protect at his level. Megumi’s goal, to save Tsumiki, grew into saving himself first. Throughout season one, Megumi’s suicidal tendencies was known and apparent. It was not until he witnessed Yuji’s growth that he realized he had to actually use his potential, not kill it. This is where he started implementing the “risking death to win” philosophy of Gojo, and raced from a depressed teen at his lowest point to using the Ten Shadows to its maximum capacity and his own domain expansion in the span of about a year. Even Nobara’s cause, to meet Saori in the big city, caused her to turn even crazier in pursuit of this dream, even when she knew all she had was a memory of her. These were the choices the characters had chosen, which caused them to be twisted and complex in their right. Yuta’s choices, such as fighting Geto and inhabiting Gojo’s body were mainly born out of survival. Even his commitment of “executing” Yuji did not fully come to fruition because of his inherited Reversed Cursed Technique.

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~ written by amishi (@amiccino)