i am gonna fully re-read jjk but already i think the ending is beautiful. is it perfect? no. is it the best ending i’ve seen? no. was it rushed? yes. but i think it fits jjk so well. yuji replacing the finger at his middle school to protect it; the very first panel being the hutch sukuna’s finger was in, and the very last being in that same hutch, with another of sukuna’s fingers. it was a cycle of curses, but yuji broke it by killing sukuna (as he says). sukuna’s death ends the cycle; he doesn’t seek vengeance, he accepts his loss and decides to move on and go north with uruame, in order to try again. yuji not only broke the cycle of curses by killing sukuna, but by also teaching him how to love and be human. 265 is such an important chapter going back to this. 271 highlights the difference between a curse and a human: mahito whinges and has a meltdown about how sukuna ‘gave up’, and sukuna simply moves on. sukuna fairly frequently describes how he was cursed from birth, perpetuating this cycle, and yuji broke it, by teaching him how to be human again. sukuna was someone who had never previously been given that chance to be human, and was instead practically shoved into becoming the villain he was. gojo couldn’t teach him this, because gojo himself was only a tool and a weapon for jujutsu society, and wasn’t widely thought of as an actual human being. gojo still loved as a human, but he was raised as a weapon. his death is integral to his character to finally being able to escape his given role (further breaking the cycle) and either be reborn (going north) or discovering himself (going south). (also just remembered how 265 had some allusion to going north in it, so well played gege.) yuji’s grandfather told him to save as many people as he could, and it turns out that included sukuna.
it truly was our jujutsu kaisen.
