Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen manga finally ended on September 30, 2024, with the 271st chapter titled “From Now On”. This chapter highlights the characters Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki in their efforts to investigate those who use magic to harm civilians. Now, Satoru Gojo can entrust world peace to his colleagues and students.
Jujutsu Kaisen itself was first introduced on March 5, 2018. This shonen manga began to attract the attention of many fans when the anime adaptation debuted in 2020. In addition to its attractive content, Jujutsu Kaisen's success is partly due to Studio MAPPA's quality animation style, which surprised many people
Indeed, this dark and supernatural fantasy manga offers an unusual story idea. Additionally, fans loved the characters introduced and how thrilling each scene was shown throughout the plot.
Unfortunately, Gege left out some important points that could have been used to build a deeper story, such as eliminating Yuji as the main character due to the existence of the strongest character at one time. time.
Here are some details of the Jujutsu Kaisen manga that disappointed fans.
1. Many deaths received disappointing reviews
Starting from the Shibuya Incident arc, to the Culling Game arc and the Shinjuku Showdown arc, fans must prepare to say goodbye to some of their favorite characters. Because the villains of the story will cause a huge battle, claiming the lives of several people.
Unfortunately, the numerous and continuous deaths have caused controversy among fans. The problem is that quite a few characters have disappointing endings.
Some of them are the case of Yuki Tsukumo, the only woman in the ranks of the four special level spellcasters. She died quickly at Kenjaku's hands, making the results of her years of preparation seem worthless.
Besides Yuki, other characters with extremely unfortunate deaths are Toge Inumaki, Panda, Uraume, Kinji Hikari and Satoru Gojo.
2. The death that was deemed necessary did not occur
One of Yuji's closest friends – Megumi, had to go through a lot of hardships until the end of the story of Jujutsu Kaisen. He fights with the intention of creating an ideal world for his sister Tsumiki to live in. who is none other than his brother.
However, his motivation disappeared after Sukuna murdered Tsumiki. He not only lost the desire to fight but also the desire to continue living. Megumi is of course also very desperate because he witnessed many lives being taken when his body was controlled by Sukuna.
Towards the end, Megumi managed to stand up and survive.
3. Expanding the territories of some little-explored characters
In the JJK universe, territory deployment is introduced as the ultimate technique that is the most difficult to master. Jujutsu users are said to possess a large amount of cursed energy to be able to use it.
Being the highest level technique among other curse techniques, not many characters can do this. However, towards the end of the series, there are several types of territorial expansion that have not been explored in detail. Among them are the simple domains belonging to Yuji, Kenjaku, Ryu Ishigori and Uro Takako.
4. Kenjaku's villainous role
Kenjaku is the mastermind behind the entire series of incidents that occurred in the JJK universe. In fact, this magician had planned this long before Yuji entered the world of jujutsu.
Kenjaku appears as one of the oldest characters in the series, having used his signature technique to achieve immortality. Kenjaku was also the one who introduced fans to JJK's world, which is much larger than what they previously expected.
However, Kenjaku's efforts were in vain for much of the time because fans had not yet witnessed his truly evil actions. Kenjaku died after receiving a slash from Yuta Okkotsu, having previously been defeated by Fumihiko Takaba.
5. Yuji never knew that Kenjaku was his “mother”.
Another point that disappointed fans with JJK's storyline until the end was the fact that Yuji never knew Kenjaku was his “mother”.
Previously, it was revealed that Yuji's mother, Kaori Itadori, was once one of Kenjaku's vessels. Kaori herself was married to Jin Itadori, who turned out to be reincarnated from Sukuna's twin brother, whom Sukuna had devoured since they were both still in the womb.
From Kaori's relationship with Jin, Yuji was born, who later became Sukuna's vessel.
The thread of fate that exists between Kenjaku and Yuji is interesting to discuss, but unfortunately we don't know what Kenjaku's real plan is for Yuji.
6. Until the end, Yuji's charm as the main character of a shounen series seemed trivial
From the beginning, Yuji Itadori was introduced as the main character of JJK. Of course, fans always expect incredible actions from Yuji, just like main characters in other shounen series in general.
Unfortunately, Yuji's charm is usurped by another more prominent character, Gojo. Even though the strongest Jujutsu spellcaster died in the end, Yuji still had no other chance to show his full worthiness.
In terms of plot and character portrayal, Yuji's appearance is quite impressive. However, fans want more from him.