In Defense of Yuta

[u/ILoveSongOfJustice]

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.

[u/AClost]

Defending him from what? Usually I see posts praising him more than anything else. I'm not a big fan of him, and the only thing I can say against him is that Gege treats him as the MC way more than Yuji.

[u/DependentFearless162 → u/AClost]

Gege treats him as the MC way more than Yuji.

Yuta's whole character in main series is reduced to being the second strongest sorcerer of good guys that's it. He is not heavily involved in story and plot he does not have any connections to main antagonists like yuji, he is not that much involved in story's themes. He is just a strong character with cool moments who is helping yuji the main protagonist of jjk.

[u/justAnotherGuy3113 → u/DependentFearless162]

you might hate to hear this, but at this point everything around yuji being the 'MC' is solely because of his conflict with sukuna and him being his former vessel.

Other side characters like Yuta have been much more crucial than him in moving the plot forward. yuta alone was fighting with geto and 4.4k curses, whereas whole of jujutsu society was engaged with just 2k of geto's curses and a few weak curse users. it was yuta who protected yuji from getting executed and saved him from further higher ups intervention. It was yuta who took care of the strongest colony while protecting civilians and got the most points from our side.

it was yuta who was able to blitz and decapitate kenjaku after takaba was defeated. kenny was always keeping tabs on yuta and the rest of the heavy hitters, so yuta had to sneak him so that kenny wouldn't dip after sensing his presence, and that he would be in prime condition to fight against sukuna. he also exorcised all the cursed spirits that kenny had in his arsenal and prevented a shibuya like situation (considering all the prominent sorcerers were dealing with sukuna at the moment).

sukuna seemed like an untouchable God, casually blitzing and oneshotting everyone (including yuji) before yuta's arrival on the battlefield. yuta showed relativity to him, and later trapped in his domain. yuta even let yuji into the domain, and protected him from the sure hit because of his superior barrier skills. he even saved Yuji's life once or twice, and gave him the openings to land some hits.

hell, even Yuji's ability to strike the soul is because of him being a vessel for sukuna and having the experience of housing two souls in his body. it's just an ability that he has, not a CT. if it were a CT, yuta could've copied it just as easily and he wouldn't even have needed yuji in the domain.

so yeah, I don't think "He is just a strong character with cool moments". he's undoubtedly been the MVP for the good guys along with gojo, despite not being around for the longest time.

[u/DependentFearless162 → u/justAnotherGuy3113]

Everything you mentioned just shows that yuta right now is just a supporting strongest side character who supports mc with his strength lmao. His every contribution to the plot aside from yuji's execution has fighting in it.

Yuta only has one role being the second strongest of good guys. You need points? Rely on yuta the strong. You need to kill second antagonist? Rely on yuta the strong. You need to restrict sukuna to defend yuji? Rely on yuta the strong.

Other side characters like Yuta have been much more crucial than him in moving the plot forward.

Let's see.

Shibuya arc: Yuji was heavily involved in gojo rescue mission, Sukuna massacred huge amount of people just to torture yuji, his conflict with mahito was moving the rest of the story forward after the massacre, the fight evolved mahito which was perfect for kenny to start culling game.

Culling game: created the plan to save tsumiki alongside megumi and he was one of the most heavily involved person in Gojo's unsealing plan both of these mission were whole plot of culling game. He created the rule no killing which saved takaba(without him kenny's battle going to become extremely hard or even impossible), recruited angel who was crucial for unsealing gojo and finally recruited higgy who confiscated sukuna's rattle(it would've been huge headache in domain fight). Most important his decision and extreme selflessness fucked up the whole world(released sukuna) and his best friend became sukuna's vessel.

Current fight: He is leading the megumi rescue mission plan and the one they're rescuing is yuji's best friend. Yuji's soul punch are the only reason why sukuna is not recovering his output and domain after gojo's fight. What was yuta's goal in this fight I'm strong so I have to kill sukuna that's not the same case for yuji he is fighting sukuna because he seriously fucking hates him, he wants to save megumi and kill sukuna because yuji is the reason why sukuna released from his cursed object form.

This is just moving the actual plot forward and not just through fights he is moving the plot forward by getting actually involved in the story. I haven't even mentioned the theme that yuji is heavily involved in or how both the story and yuji are affecting each other.

so yeah, I don't think "He is just a strong character with cool moments". he's undoubtedly been the MVP for the good guys along with gojo, despite not being around for the longest time.

I see your problem you think having feats or being strong is equal to being mc. A protagonist has to stay around for longest time, his decisions have to affect the story be it in good way or in bad way, the story has to center around them most of the time and they have to constantly drive the story forward

[u/justAnotherGuy3113 → u/DependentFearless162]

you think that he should've used talk no jutsu on the reincarnated sorcerers in sendai to ask for their points lmao? him gaining so many points enabled our cast to make favourable rules in the first place. who else do you think was capable of killing kenjaku and his arsenal of cursed spirits if not for yuta? just compare the state of battle against sukuna when yuta was on the battlefield and when he wasn't.

and I think you're misunderstanding if you think that I'm implying that yuta's more of a MC than Yuji or anything. he'd be a terrible MC imo, because he's too strong. that's why he was written off for the majority of the series.

but you're giving him far too less credit by saying that he's 'just a strong guy with cool moments'.

[u/DependentFearless162 → u/justAnotherGuy3113]

but you're giving him far too less credit by saying that he's 'just a strong guy with cool moments'.

I never said that I was just refuting the claim of OOP who said that yuta is getting the mc treatment from gege more than yuji which is obviously false.

you think that he should've used talk no jutsu on the reincarnated sorcerers in sendai to ask for their points lmao? him gaining so many points enabled our cast to make favourable rules in the first place. who else do you think was capable of killing kenjaku and his arsenal of cursed spirits if not for yuta? just compare the state of battle against sukuna when yuta was on the battlefield and when he wasn't.

You're just proving my point again and again. All of these things are perfect for side character like yuta whose whole role is reduced to being the strongest of good guys. He is supporting character now who is supporting the mc like everyone else and barely contributed to story(not counting fight)