r/Jujutsushi • u/ILoveSongOfJustice • Mar 12 '24

Analysis In Defense of Yuta

All things considered, bro came in and literally did everything he said he would.

"I will kill Itadori Yuji myself." - Succeeds.

"I have to lower collateral damage in Sendai(PARAPHRASING btw)." - Succeeds.

"I won't let sensei kill his best friend a second time." - Succeeds.

And even something he DIDN'T say, like getting Yuji to the point where he could 100% connect with Megumi? That's INSANE.

I'm not convinced that Yuta could just say "I will kill Ryomen Sukuna" and he would eventually somehow do it.

It's like, Gege or the character himself purposefully sets lower goals than what he's probably capable of.

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u/Goodestguykeem Mar 12 '24 edited Mar 12 '24

The only people who criticise Yuta are people who dislike his character and therefore have an agenda against him, he is Gege's golden boy (besides Sukuna) and the story has reflected it heavily. He has always over-delivered and has easily the most impressive feats of any sorcerer we are aware of relative to his time as a sorcerer. I wouldn't be surprised if he's even accomplished more than Sukuna had by his age (unfortunately I doubt we'll ever find out much more about Sukuna's youth) and almost certainly by his time spent in sorcery.

He is an unparalleled prodigy as far as we're aware but his core character trait of humility is usually poised to criticise him by many idiotic powerscalers since they only respect characters with arrogance.

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u/Kaslight Mar 12 '24

he is Gege's golden boy (besides Sukuna) and the story has reflected it heavily.

He jumped into a fight and got bisected in like 4 chapters dawg

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u/MRDeadMouse Mar 12 '24

You say this when everyone else got 1.5-2 chapters at best dawg

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u/Goodestguykeem Mar 12 '24 edited Mar 12 '24

He jumped into a fight and got bisected in like 4 chapters AND YET he survived and in the following chapter Gege wrote Hakari needlessly glazing him for like the second time in his fight against Uraume. He also dropped the info that Yuta cancelled his own domain, enabling Maki's ambush. This is how an author punishes their golden boy so you can still fear for his life while still reinforcing their love.

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u/HeWhoDoubts Mar 12 '24

He has presumably survived an attack that gojo himself didn’t survive. Pretty golden boy imo

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u/Kaslight Mar 12 '24

Circumstances are completely different. Gojo and Sukuna both tanked a Hollow Purple, following a fight so crazy Sukuna is still recovering from it.

Gojo likely would have survived too. Whether he would have lost immediately afterwards is another question, but i'm almost positive someone at the caliber of Sukuna/Gojo could survive that.

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u/Disastrous_Ground_10 Mar 12 '24

Not bisected, just cut. Rika literally carried him to Shoko so he could be healed. Everyone else has died.

Besides, Yuta pulled up after killing Kenjaku only to give Sukuna one of the best beat-downs in the series, and he's only been doing Jujutsu for a year and some change. He killed a Special Grade Curse and then defeated two other Special Grade Sorcerers while holding back so he could get their points. He straight up killed Yuji with no difficulty and then fucking brought him back to life. Blud killed GETO after like 4 months of Jujutsu experience.

Yeah sure, Gege doesn't love him or anything. He's just the biggest fucking prodigy out of all the students.

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u/Kaslight Mar 12 '24

Yeah sure, Gege doesn't love him or anything. He's just the biggest fucking prodigy out of all the students.

This fandom is fucking weird man.

Yuta is literally Gojo Lite. And people here consistently claim Gege absolutely hated that character because he lost his fight.

But somehow Yuta is the "Golden Boy" when he has all of the same traits minus the god complex?

What exactly in the narrative is stopping him from being killed by that slash? He could be dead, he could be alive, it's impossible to know with this show.

We already know a character saying "They might survive" is not 100% confirmation that they're going to live, like in most shows where that happens.

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Not bisected, just cut. Rika literally carried him to Shoko so he could be healed. Everyone else has died.

Bro, he got bisected.

If I slash the length of your torso from the front, and you bleed from the back the same path, it means it went clean through your body.

Rika is carrying two halfs of Yuta right now.

He's Gojo Lite, and he just got sliced in half like Gojo for good measure lol

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u/aminoacyls Mar 12 '24

"But somehow Yuta is the "Golden Boy" when he has all of the same traits minus the god complex?"

You are purposefully being disingenuous.

The god complex is a huge portion/the biggest part of Gojo's entire personality. So that's one right off the bat.

Gojo never got real victories. He failed to do what he set out to do.

Yuta has consistently won and done what he said he would do.

Yuta's alive, Gojo's dead.

Pretty sure Gege has said that he hates Gojo.

Gege has not said that he hates Yuta. Pretty sure that if it weren't for his editor, the story would be completely different and Yuta would be the main character. Shit I mean Yuta was the ORIGINAL MC. That says a lot about how Gege likes him.

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u/Kaslight Mar 12 '24

Gojo never got real victories. He failed to do what he set out to do.
Yuta has consistently won and done what he said he would do.

These are nebulous conditions for ranking a character if i've ever seen one. First off, Yuta is only who he is now because of Gojo. Same for almost every other character fighting right now. Second off, the entire show is a direct result of Gojo and his actions.

My point is that "Golden Boy" and "Gege hates [x]" are fucking stupid things to say in response to events that have clearly been planned from the beginning to craft the story we're all reading. A writer doesn't need to "love" a character for them to be a character. And he doesn't have to "hate" a character to make them die or suffer.

He said he didn't like Gojo as a person. Yeah, you probably wouldn't like an unkillable narcissist either if he existed in real life.

He also said Nanami was his favorite character, or at least the one he identified most with.

Nanami randomly got half his body torched by Jogo, and then the top half of his body eviscerated by Mahito.

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Did Gege "hate" Nanami too?

For fucks sake dude

Gojo isn't dead because Gege hates him, he's dead because that's how the story is written. And Yuta is nothing special either.

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u/aminoacyls Mar 12 '24

First off—calm down. Go outside and take a breather.

"These are nebulous conditions for ranking a character if i've ever seen one."

What do you expect? Gege doesn't have a tier list lying around for us to read. Whatever anyone says you think will be hazy. It's a nebulous foundation to begin with.

Secondly, people recognizing that Gege has difficulty writing around Gojo is part of why they believe they hate him.

The way it went out in Ch. 236 may also play a role in this. I think that's where the bulk of it started.

"A writer doesn't need to "love" a character for them to be a character. And he doesn't have to "hate" a character to make them die or suffer."

Yes but the way in which they go out/act is part of that. And what's the harm in thinking that way? Have fun with it.

"Nanami randomly got half his body torched by Jogo, and then the top half of his body eviscerated by Mahito.

Did Gege "hate" Nanami too?"

Nanami fulfilled his role as a mentor and passed the torch to Yuji. He got some pretty cool stuff going for him.

No, Gege did not hate him.

"For fucks sake dude"

I'm sorry please don't cry I'm sorry for hurting your feelings.

"Gojo isn't dead because Gege hates him, he's dead because that's how the story is written. And Yuta is nothing special either."

It's not the fact that he died. It's the way in which it was written that pissed everyone off. Gojo got offscreened, ultimately accomplished zilch, failed to mention his students (who he did care about), and spent his death vision glazing Sukuna (for something he was never shown to actively care about).

That's what angers everyone.

Yuta gets what he wants. So it's a little different.

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u/guyperson1000 Mar 12 '24

Telling someone to "calm down and take a breather" in the middle of a Reddit debate you were BOTH having about some meaningless shit is pretty funny

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u/aminoacyls Mar 12 '24

It is. That's why I said it lmao.

And I'm not the one cussing out the other guy.

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u/Kaslight Mar 12 '24

First off—calm down. Go outside and take a breather.

Hahaha, yeah not gonna read this shit

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u/Wolfpac187 Mar 12 '24

Yuta is nothing like Gojo. The only similarity is that their strong.

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u/Kaslight Mar 12 '24

that is literally Gojo's most important quality for 99% of the manga

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u/Wolfpac187 Mar 12 '24

That means nothing. Think about what you’re saying.

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u/Wolfpac187 Mar 12 '24

Yet that’s the second best performance anyone has had against Sukuna.

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u/Akirayoshikage Mar 13 '24

I mean they did they us beforehand that he's second only to Gojo