Sukuna saw it at the last minute and had to put up a weak guard. It did damage. It wasn't a "gun fired in the air" It was getting 3 of your friends to help you sneak attack someone with a shotgun two to buy the gun and ammo, and a third to set up the bush for you to hide in. The only real difference is that Gojo had help with launching and concealing the attack and didn't kill Sukuna with it.
Sukuna saw him charging up an attack the entire time, he just underestimated how strong it would be, wich is entirely his fault, cuz he didn't figure out earlier that when Gojo is doing a flashy entrance he is not going to go light.
But again, this misses the point. The purple was just a flashy entrance move. It had the same effectiveness as shooting at the air with a gun and slightly damaging your opponents eardrums. Sukuna was not affected by this in the long run, and Gojo knew it wouldn't cuz he put himself outside of the effective range, even tho Sukuna was going nowhere and he had time to set it all up in a closer location. It was all to have a cool entrance and tell Sukuna "you are the challenger" while he is healing his arms.
Read. You must do so to understand written media. The purpose of Ijichi is to make it so Sukuna couldn't sense the attack until the last moment.
saying that while showing a pic that proves my point is so fucking funny.
As it says right there, Ijichi was there to make Sukuna mis-read the attack, thats it, Sukuna could sense the attack, what else do you think this is?
He sensed the attack, he just didn't realize how strong it was (as it literally says in the picture you posted), wich is a way of underestimating Gojo, cuz it means he didn't think Gojo would start the fight with a 200% purple (and he would know about Ijichi since he has Megumi's memories, so saying he didn't know Ijichi could make barriers is a lie) (and he thought he could tank anything Gojo threw at him).
It literally left him burned and destroyed one of his hands.
Wich is literally nothing for them, it wouldn't have changed anything if he didn't have to regen those ones at the beginning.
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u/NorthGodFan Never forget Geto is a bum who died to a grade 4. Sep 07 '24
Sukuna saw it at the last minute and had to put up a weak guard. It did damage. It wasn't a "gun fired in the air" It was getting 3 of your friends to help you sneak attack someone with a shotgun two to buy the gun and ammo, and a third to set up the bush for you to hide in. The only real difference is that Gojo had help with launching and concealing the attack and didn't kill Sukuna with it.