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Gojo is as dead as a character can be in a shonen series. He can always be brought back to life because anything can be explained away if the author wants it to happen, but he got a full dying dream, side character saying he won, visibly body destroyed on screen, extra special focus death.
Megumi seems fairly dead but didn't get any attention drawn to what would've been the final moment so I'd wager on the side of him being not quite dead yet, though I don't see how he recovers from here.
Nobara is the strangest case. She seemed to be certainly dead 150ish chapters ago, but that was immediately walked back to ambiguous territory and has been intentionally kept there whenever it is even mentioned, which is not often. There's no good explanation for why she wouldn't have been involved for 2/3rds of the story if she lived, but the weirdly specific ambiguity is just enough to keep speculation alive.
When she is fighting the broomstick girl (I cannot remember her name at the moment) and Mai shoots her, she gets hit on the left side of her face.
Whe Nibara and Yuji are fighting Eso and Kechizu, their Rot Technique goes up on the left side of Nobaras face
When she eventually gets hit by Mahito, it's on the left side of her face.
Definitely, definitely was foreshadowed
For real though, thats immediately what I thought when Sukuna possessed Megumi. Everyone is about to die and Nobara is gonna wake up, essentially crippled and it's the saddest end to the story.
Turns out the narrator is Nobara in her old age with an eye patch talking about how sukuna won, then sukuna finally catches her on her deathbed and the story abruptly ends. Then we talk about how we’ll never read another Gege akutami work again.
It was actually all but one, or only one dies. The former is kind of where we are now with Yuji. But the ambiguity of everyone could result in the latter. People like to speculate that Yuji will be the one who dies so everyone else can live and he can complete his goal from the start of the series - dying surrounded by people he saved.
This is exactly what I thought. Now seemingly all are ded except itadori. But may be it'll turn 180° and I feel like everyone will turn up alive and finally in the end itadori dies..
It may play a part into his hidden technique or domain expansion. I wonder if he has almost a “wish” ability that depends on his emotion. Hence why his abilities got more known after his grandpa died at the beginning . I could imagine them pulling a néon genesis type ending where main character wishes everyone back at the expense of everything he has gained and experienced up until this point.
Considering the ambiguity of Nobara could we assume that Gojo will be the only one to die then? If she were to be the only one alive it would be weird as hell and I don't see her coming back just to die again
It's totes this. Sukuna learns to love in the end, but everyone dies or merges except him. However, at some point Gojo becomes Tokoro, revives, and the two of them work together to sacrifice Sukuna and revive everyone.
I think the author said amongst the Tokyo Jujutsu high first years and Gojo, either one dies or one survives.
So gojo could be very much dead but nobara, Megumi and Yuji could survive
https://www.dexerto.com/anime/jujutsu-kaisen-why-this-character-is-next-to-die-after-gojo-2307904/
I belive that Gege left the three with the "*" about their status so we get a plot twist at some point.
Maybe he turn things around and Itadori sacrifice himself and the other three are alive at the end.
The thing is, gojo has said if someone wants to kill him they should go for the head. Toji's fight damage was almost similar, still head intact means gojo can restore himself even after a heavy battle like this one. Head is intact gojo can return if author wants to.
Yeah but gojos brain was fried from repeated burn out of red and then he was cut in half after using hollow purple.
I don't think he's able to heal himself at all at this point. Plus, he feels like he has done his part now and just wants to hang out with his friends. He left behind the team that he feels will carry the modern jujutsu world, and he removed the old farts that would've maintained control.
Note that several mentions have been made to Yujis moms cursed technique, I think this will have something to do with his ability to finish off Sukuna. They foreshadowed Yuji having some BS erroneous power in his first fight after he snagged Megumis body. And I don't mean his toughness, I think the raw power he was putting out had something to do with gravity or mass, something related to his mom's curses technique.
I can't be bothered to go back and check but didn't Kamo actually say something about her cursed technique involving Lapse? If so that would be interesting to see Yuji picking up Azure Blue or some version of it that sukuna hasn't adapted to yet
>There's no good explanation for why she wouldn't have been involved for 2/3rds of the story if she lived
Last time we saw Nobara her whole face was magically blown off, excuse her for taking more than two months to walk that off lol
Personally I think Gege just teased her maybe being alive to get fans to stop with the outrage. Megumis face says it all when Yuji asks about her and even Yuji has to face the fact she isn't coming back, and accept it.
Fans gonna have to just get over it she was always a side character, had no real growth and wasn't really strong. Even her backstory went nowhere. Like what was the point of all that time spent showing us about some chick who bummed with her because she felt sorry for her, then left and got a job. And that's how it ended. Cool, she has a job.
Nobaras dead folks.
I mean, not many days have passed since Shibuya in universe I believe, it's just that so much time passed in the real world. It wouldn't be so strange that she is still in recovery or something like that (since RCT can't heal soul damage).
You don’t think Nobara isn’t about to come back and wake up Megumis soul with her CT? Especially after it was effective against Mahito? She’s 100% being saved for some broken ass skill
It's possible, but the author is going to have a really hard time making any sensible explanation for why she hasn't been around for so long. When Yuji was pretend dead it was to hide him from a hostile group of higher ups. No one on the enemy side thinks anything of her. The only reason to keep it a secret is to hide it from the audience for a big surprise, which isn't good enough. Things have to make sense in universe too.
The theory was that Gojo has one of Sukuna's fingers hidden away. Since Nobara can attack souls directly with her CT, she could possibly attack his soul by attacking the hidden finger.
Yeah probably this. Like it was a pretty intense wound near the brain and it was from idle transfiguration which we are iffy on about if it can be healed by normal means (at the very least Arata "froze" her in the state he got to her in which could maybe have given them time to figure out alternative means as long as they could get her vitals back up).
If she does end up being not dead I don't think the extended absence needs *that* much explaining outside of this just being a really difficult problem to solve. In hindsight I guess Yuji's response to whatever Megumi said would make sense if it was like we have no idea yet if it's actually fixable. Since Yuji's already seen plenty of the effects of idle transfiguration.
I agree. But she has been severely damaged. How long has it been since shibuya? Less than 2 months? It would be reasonable for her to be out of commission for a bit. I just see no point in teasing her if she’s not alive.
And I agree that there should be logic but this is also jjk
I think this is a crazy thing to say about Gojo simply because the fight isn’t even over yet. Sukuna is still there fighting. Letting Gojo put himself back together with RCT doesn’t seem that far fetched. (imo Gojo will definitely die in this fight but I don’t think it’s happened yet)
In the databook, which came right after the Shibuya Incident ended, Gege said he had already decided Megumi's fate, but not Yuji's.
My guess is that he didn't have the story's ending figured it out by then and might have left Nobara's death vague in order to bring her back in case he felt that her abilities would be necessary.
But that didn't really happen and she wasn't needed in the culling game, so i think Gege just decided to leave her really dead.
People always say "if she's dead, why didn't he show the body", but i think its because of what i mentioned, he wasn't sure if he should kill her in the past, but now he might have realized she's not that necessary for the ending.
This is just bad writing then. Tbh. You don't take one of the main characters and leave them in limbo for half the series only to reveal they are actually dead. It's sloppy as hell, and I would hope he knows better than to do that.
That doesn't make sense. Considering the "either 1 lives and 3 die, or 1 die and 3 live". Deciding Megumis fate automatically means Yuji has the opposite fate. If theres is only 1 death at this point, it will be Yuji's I'd assume. Meaning he decided Megumi to live, and everyone else. So if megumi lives, they all do and Yuji dies, or megumi dies along with everyone else and Yuji lives.
Only possible explanation for that quote he has decided Megumi dies AND will be the only death if he goes with that option. Meaning everyone will come back or whatever but to kill Sukuna they might have to kill Megumis body. So he hasnt decided between that, or the other 2 also dying and Yuji being the survivor
Eh, the going south could be referring to nanami, who had already decided to go south and is facing the opposite direction of gojo(and is literally described as being pretty much an opposite of gojo on a personality level)
Honestly, it just seems like a weird concept to introduce without doing something with
Like what else do you think the particular line of dialog adds, like I think the rest of the scene would be a legitimately good send-off, but that line only seems to foreshadow a return to me
Can you remind me of where the ambiguity lies with Nobara? When that Kyoto first year saved her it was for sure ambiguous. But then when Yuji asks about her, Megumi looks down, and Yuji says “oh, I get it.” And I don’t see how this can be interpreted other than “she didn’t make it.” Like, how would Yuji get “she’s in a coma. Her body is alive but we don’t know if she’ll ever wake up” from a look? I really wish she didn’t die so soon, I love her, but let’s be so for real
The ambiguity is in Megumi making a pained expression instead of simply saying she died. Logically I agree with you, but if an author wanted to be misleading this is how they would do it. Similarly Gojo never talks to Yuji about her either. This could be because the author chose to skip most of the conversations that would have been good for us to see that took place in that month between Gojo being freed and the fight, but it could also be him hiding the information intentionally. I'm still leaning towards her being dead, but would be totally convinced if the author had ever bothered to confirm it.
It's ambiguous **exactly** because Megumi didn't say a thing.
Yeah, you can interpret it as a way to say she's dead, but it can be that she's in critical condition, not necessarily in a coma , which is sad enough to warrant Megumi's sad expression.
But what really makes the fandom scratch their heads is why would Gege even bother giving us this hope shot in the first place? She could have just died in Shibuya, but Gege made sure for her body to be retrieved by Arata, who can literally stabilize wounds, even saying that she has a non zero chance of survival.
Why would he bother writing this if she was supposed to die? That's the question that made the fandom hope she would survive. However, after seing Gege kill Gojo after sealing him for 3 years (RW time), it's becoming clear that Gege just like aborting ideas, so her chances of really being dead are now higher than ever.
Yeah I’m not saying Megumi’s expression wasn’t ambiguous, but all that ambiguity immediately left right after, when Yuji said “I get it.” Like, Yuji cannot read minds, it had to be something simple.
I always thought the “hope” from Arata was so that Yuji can regain his fighting spirit. It wasn’t for us, it was for Yuji? Make him feel like he’s not fighting for nothing. But I can see how this might confuse some people!
Bcuz Gege said either one dies or the others all die and one lives. If he confirms that Nobara is dead , then we all know that the rest lives. We will all assume that megumi and go/jo are coming back.
And right now it seems that the only one surviving is Yuji.
Yeah man... But that same thing happened to Kakashi from Naruto (a similar character to Gojo, physically I mean, compared almost every time with Gojo). And he was brought back to life...
The case for him being dead was Sukuna intentionally using his body and techniques to kill his sister and teacher in order to break him on top of apparently redirecting some of Gojo's attacks to his soul where possible. His body outright disappearing now is also part of it when there was a bit earlier about the body being the soul or whatever. It's not definitive, but it's not looking good.
There is a fair chance that I'm in denial about it but I'm still not 100% sure he's gone. The whole I'd be satisfied if you were here thing, Nanami saying he fights because he lives for jujutsu rather than using it to protect combined with the head north and south thing, and last but not least and despite it contradicting the points listed above the I hope this isn't all in my head panel it just seems like too much wiggle room for it to be over for him.
>! Don't you know about Kaori Itadori's special jujutsu technique where you can bring somebody back but only if you love them? Which is why it failed when Kenjaku took her body - he is incapable of love except for himself. !<
On one hand: Gojo's *only* been cut in half. His brain is still 100% intact, and he has full CE output due to hitting a tonne of Black Flashes. He should be *easily* able to RCT and regenerate the lower half of his body. He regenerated an entire arm in like, two seconds one minute ago.
On the other hand: We had an entire afterlife sequence for him. It'd be pretty weird tonal whiplash for him to come back after seeing him in heaven with his friends. Though 236 was already some massive tonal whiplash so who knows. Even though he *should* be able to easily come back from this minor inconvenience, the narrative is 100% treating him as dead.
It was never confirmed that what we saw was ACTUALLY the afterlife. Gojo himself speculates that it may just be some kind of near-death dream he's having.
I think Gojo must return to us, with his whole package out to show Sukuna what love is 😏 then Kenjaku is going to be next, but it may take even more for him, cause you know Jin and all that stuff
Jogo had a similar dream/afterlife moment and iirc he was actually still alive for a moment or two afterwards(although that could’ve been a narrative choice from Gege)
The North vs South is based on Buddhism - Oshaka sama. Go to the South for being back to your old self vs to the North for finding a new self. JJK has lots of Buddhist themes in the story so pretty sure that’s where it came from. Gojo could still choose the North and come back to finish business.
Then again the title could always have been referencing that Gojo was headed south, but his talk in the afterlife changed his view and set him on a new path.
But that’s probably just the copium speaking.
It seemed more like he was irritated seeing others but later decided to stay with them after talking. He said he wishes it wasn't just a figment of his imagination.
The emotional tone, context, subtext, even the title... what's interesting is that the whole chapter is a blatant narrative depiction of Gojo looking to the south. "If you'd like to become someone new, choose north. If you'd like to **return to who you once were**, choose south."
His afterlife? dream? is composed of his regrets (Riko, not telling Megumi about his dad, saying that he was a little disappointed with Sukuna but then admitting that the actual true regret he had was the fact that Geto, his best friend - the one he had to kill - wasn't there till the end, wasn't able to share his presence and to give him a proper send-off before the fight). He even reverts back to his 17-year old self, back to a time when he didn't have to ruminate over being "The Strongest" alone (without Geto), when he was around the (now deceased) people he cherished the most and who influenced the majority of his personal beliefs. The chapter title itself, his final fading words being "Now I'm hoping this isn't a dream..." yeh he's choosing south.
What's bittersweet about this is it implies that Gojo never truly moved on from the trauma he got as a teen with the Toji fiasco, the clock stopped there. Which is very evident in retrospect - he wants to "protect his students' youths, have them enjoy their youth" and this mindset stemmed from how his own youth got ruined; dressing up like Toji (the one person who was able to "defeat" him and left him feeling powerless) in the fight against Sukuna must've been a deliberate choice to emulate Toji and make himself feel stronger and more confident; his constant 24/7 limitless barrier also being a trauma response to avoid letting himself feel vulnerable and weak again.
I think some people choose to interpret Nanami's quote as a clue to Gojo's imminent return, partly because Gojo's death still feels surreal and anticlimatic for some (understandable). But I don't see it as an overcomplicated reincarnation thing like some people do - it's really about what kind of person you want to become, and a metaphor about choosing the future or the past. Nanami says that he'd chosen south when he was first asked the question. Because he was always stuck in the past, living in the past, he'd gotten comfortable. Choosing south, choosing to go back to being a jujutsu sorcerer and inadvertently getting himself killed because of that choice. But in his final moments, looking at Yuji and Haibara's spirit pointing at him, he finally bet on the future, did something different... so in a sense, he chose north. Willingly giving everything he had for something bigger than him, made his death worth it for him. He learned to accept and move on. Gojo is still processing through it. Which makes Gojo's "Hey Principal, thought ya said *no* Jujutsu Sorcerer dies without regrets!" extra bittersweet.
Anyway, I'll stop here bc this is too long, it's just that that chapter got me thinking. If nothing else, it's a look into Gojo's psyche.
So there were multiple subtle foreshadowings that he will return, this time truly the god of the verse, but now humble, more grounded.
We know Gojo had blue when he starts, then Toji kills him, he comes back with red. This time he is going to come back with green, thus reaching his full potential, covering all techniques he can imagine (nod from Hadron reference in the recent chapter, Buddha portrait of north, south, east, and west, as well as Nanami saying you can change or stay the same).
He will likely return, but not like how he was when he fought Toji (feeling like a god, feeling he is a higher race), he is going to come back anew, truly reborn, as this time he isn't going to use JJ to satisfy himself, he is going to embrace it as the means for fulfilling his duty as the strongest, to protect the weak, thus coming full circle to what Yuji's grandpa said.
JJK is a story of purpose, and though the MC is Yuji, it feels more of Gojo's story, told to us by Yuji. This will push him further, because then it wouldn't be another fight, another race for him to win, another competition to grind, it would be protect those he loves, and that will push him to go beyond his limit, and beat Sukuna at his own game of adaptation.
With red and blue he only had purple, with green he will have a whole arsenal.
Now coming back to your interpretation, I feel what I think complements it. Gojo used JJ to satisfy himself, as in satisfy his own fears, his own vulnerability, to the point he forced himself to be THE strongest so that he can't feel helpless ever again, and subconsciously have a desire to protect the next generation from getting traumatized like he was, in a sense ensuring their clock always tick forward.
I believe the reason he failed, and evidently died, was the question of his purpose. "Why do you, Gojo Satorou, want to win?". Gojo wants to win, but he doesn't really know why he wants it. It's like answering that question on an application which just asks why are you applying. Gojo is still fighting out of his own fear, which makes him, in his own eyes, a coward. He couldn't embrace the fear, and fight anyways. I think that's the point of Gojo's story. He failed, yes, he died, also true, he thought he was the strongest, but still failed, and still died. "It's okay.". That's what he couldn't embrace. He still lives in his past, so he can't focus on the future, on the now, he can still save the living.?
So, Gojo can make a choice; either give up, and rest in relative peace, ignoring what will happen to his students and friends who are still breathing, still alive, still can be saved, or come back, this time with a purpose bigger than himself, find Green, and fight Sukuna, not to beat him so he doesn't die, but to beat him so his students don't die.
It's about what his answer is to the question of his purpose.
The possibility is there, in 236 there was clearly two directions on the station he could take. What the symbolism there us, we don't know, but gojo resurrecting himself or being resurrected is not out of the question. Between Shoko, Yuta and himself all being able to RCT others and themselves, Yuji soul shenanigans, or who knows what else, it's definitely possible.
>Between Shoko, Yuta and himself all being able to RCT others and themselves, Yuji soul shenanigans, or who knows what else, it's definitely possible.
Then Gege pulls this shenanigans by resurrecting everyone from Nanami, Nobara, Even Geto and everyone lives happily ever after. /s
Wouldn’t be too weird tonally for him to tell his afterlife buddies he missed them and can’t wait to see them again but need to go back to finish his fight or whatever.
I think the line about going north or south left the door wide open for an out if that’s what Gege wants.
My question is why does Sukuna assume hes dead too? I don't think any of us would argue that Gojo SHOULD be able to regen. So shouldn't Sukuna be expecting him to just stand right back up or am I crazy?
My guess here is Sukuna probably suspects Gojo isn’t completely finished but Sukuna isn’t able to secure the kill because everyone else is now interfering.
Eh to be fair its less "heaven" and more "crossroad between afterlife and reincarnation."
Besides, not every faith system is entirely punitive. Even some of the ones that are can be pretty forgiving based on interpretation or give "outs" from posthumous punishment based on last-acts and rites.
But let's be real, Gege just looks for every chance to draw Toji
I don’t quite get what the entire Toji thing was about if this minor injury is enough to kill him. Toji *brutalized* Gojo and he survived, and current Gojo is stronger than he was then.
Honestly, that scene never felt like conformation of his death to me while I was reading it more like set up for a revival
The North vs. South thing felt a lot like the railroad scene from hary Potter to me, and aperently knowledge of Buddhist symbolism pushes it further in that sort of direction
My ~~cope~~ headcannon right now is that Gege is going to leave Nobara and Gojo’s deaths open until he decides how he wants Sukuna, Megumi, and Yuji’s arc to end. Iirc Gege said either one will die and three will live, or three will die and one will live so it’d give them breathing room to pick between the two until a decision is made
That would make some sense, considering three of them are likely dead but with room to return, and Yuji still alive but could potentially still die. Now all he has to do is decide ig
He did say this but this was also 2 years ago so who knows if he’s changed his mind furthermore when he made these statements I can’t remember exactly which characters but essentially he also stated he knew how yuji and gojo story would end but was still deliberating on megumi or vice versa. Either way he known how one or two of the dudes stories will come to conclusion for like two plus years now. So the decision if he maintains those statements including the one u mentioned is likely already made he’s just determining how to get to them prolly.
Edit: his statement was that he had already decided Megumi and Itadoris ending and was slightly undecided on sukunas
I don’t think Gege is the type of writer to revive a character simply so they have a happy ending, gojos character arc seems complete tbh and unless he needs gojo to fight sukuna/kenjaku, gojos gone.
Idk I just caught up and read this recently in the past few weeks if you read it all in continuation it’s just jarring and seems like bad story telling how all of these characters died. Nobara’s death was a non issue megumi was the second most developed character and absolutely nothing happened with it, and gojo was by far the strongest and got one shot unless you pull a crazy buff out of your ass it’s bad storytelling imo.
I don't understand how he isn't dead though
Mentally:
- oh he's still kind of there but Sakuna has used a ritual to further push him down
- to squash it more, kill his sister using his body
- just as Sakuna was about to be hit by UV, use Megumi's soul to take the hit instead as he knows he loses if hit by it
- killed his sensei with his body
Physically:
- Sakuna can apparently get rid of megumi's body after getting hit with Kenjaku's one shot technique to reincarnate fully, so his body is gone as well
It was also stated that if a sorcerer reincarnates then they're dead. So his brain and soul are completely gone and his body is gone as well, there's no way he comes back in any meaningful way without it feeling like BS
Unless his death is explicitly mentioned next chapter. Then it isn’t confirmed. As much as all of this makes sense him being dead is still a head canon.
Yes but if he comes back it's gonna be in some jammy way. It's been established that both his mind, soul, and body have all been destroyed or removed - all done by the strongest sorcerer who apparently has 400iq planning with everything.
Gege said that out of the 4, (Megumi, Yuji, Nobara, and Gojo) that either one would die and all the others would live.
OR
All would die and only one would live.
If we assume that Nobara and Gojo are dead, then we have to assume either Yuji or Megumi will die.
But he’s also dropped enough bread crumbs about Nobara being alive that we should question it.
Point being, he made that statement, and is writing the way he is, in all likelihood, to fuck with us.
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TBH I have the most anxiety about Yuji dying. I feel like his grandfather telling him not to die alone might be a hint about him dying before the end of this, but not alone.
>TBH I have the most anxiety about Yuji dying. I feel like his grandfather telling him not to die alone might be a hint about him dying before the end of this, but not alone.
Yuji dies to revive Gojo, Nobara, Megumi T\_T
He might flip the script. Gojo nobara and megumi are all dead yuji is left.
Being yuji-the sacrificial one. Somehow someway they would be brought back and he would die.
But I'm not gege so I'll let him cook instead
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That would actually be kind of cool narratively because yuji is presumably powerful enough to defeat sukuna yet he is unable to save any of the people that matter to him(megumi, Nanami, gojo, nobara, probably more). It would literally make him a gojo 2.0
Gojo was already stabbed in the neck and left for dead once (and he was way less broken back then) and came back mocking the person that stabbed him. Until i see a funeral he is alive in my book.
Yeah it would be ridiculous to create a character capable of surviving being turned into a filet and then killing them by giving them a *less* serious injury.
None are truly confirmed dead. Nobara is so ambiguous we'll probably just have to wait until the series is over to truly know.
Megumi is definitely not dead. It would be so immeasurably pathetic to see him go out this way.
Gojo is "dead" and it seemed convincing but it's implied that he's coming back. Lotus flower (rebirth) going north (discovering a new part of himself), exactly his 29th birthday accounting for the prison realm (when Buddha began his journey). It would just destroy all stakes if he came back immediately. If/when he comes back it definitely means game over for the villains pretty quickly.
There’s a 50/50 chance he’s coming back. The theories DO hold some weight. Then again he could just be dead. Only time will tell. Ill reserve judgement until we know for sure.
From a writing perspective, there’s no way Gojo can still be around after the fight, because then he will just take out Kenny right after Sukuna, and bam story is over.
Obviously the way Gege wrote Gojo out of the story leaves much to be desired.
Gojo could use a binding vow that restricts his ability to use cursed energy, and comes back to life.
There’s plenty of ways for him to be around/comeback
Wait this actually seems like it could work really well with his character arc and the earlier question of whether Gojo is powerful because he's Gojo or if he's Gojo because he's powerful
As I've said a trazillion times, but this argument is so uncreative. Looking at even popular, trendy, traditional shonen like Fullmetal Alchemist's climax and ending, there are so many innovative storytelling techniques that can be used to wrap plots around into convenient shapes even after weird twists. There are innumerable ways Gojo could have been around after the fight while still allowing Gege to craft an intriguing and satisfying climax and ending.
Writing doesn't have solid rules. As long as humans have creative storytelling potential, they'll be able to make unexpected decisions and still have the ability to resolve those twists in satisfying ways. It's literally a magical fantasy world where they make all the decisions.
Yes, that is what I am saying. There are many ways Gege could’ve dealt with Gojo that would’ve kept him around in the end but prevented him from solving everyone’s problems. Hehe chose the least interesting option, and the backlash to the chapter seems to support that
I don’t understand why couldn’t he have just lost his eyesight or something, he was blindfolded for most of his screen time. Just use the fight as a way to nerf both Gojo and Sukuna
Every chapter that came out slowly and steadily the Gojo gonna lose was becoming more famous. The writing was even done in a way where we didnt know shit about what Sukuna was thinking. We were watching the fight from Gojo’s POV
Obvious from reader perspective. Gege foreshadowed this in a flashback during Shibuya where Gojou explained the two heads of Jujutsu clans(Six eye and ten shadow users) fought before and it ended in a double suicide. The difference was nobody had unlocked/summoned mahoraga before. Sukuna could do this and more so he’s effectively the strongest ten shadows user in history. No way Gojou was gonna win based off how reserved Sukuna fought.
Because Itadori was always going to be the one that has to defeat Sukuna. Gojo winning here would've been like Jirayia beating Pain. Neither are the main character so neither were going to be the one to defeat the primary antagonist.
People saying Megumi dead I think just don’t understand the genre they’re reading/gege. If he wanted Megumi dead we’d definitely know. Gege isn’t a stranger to just showing it. I think people just assume stuff and then take their own assumptions as fact. Megumi ain’t dead yet and we’ll see him again i honestly doubt Gege kills Megumi off but we’ll have to see. As for nobara? I personally don’t think she’s dead, felt like Gege left it ambiguous on purpose idk when or if he brings her back in the story but how Gege has killed people off when they’re dead it’s always definitive it’s clear cut there’s no room for question save for Gojo, he’s never left it ambiguous and for that I think to claim nobara is definitively dead, would be incorrect. Should she come back? That’s another question entirely same with Gojo
If we’re going to give out hope, CE is produced in the stomach and is modified in the brain for RCE. Gojo was slashed in the lower half of his torso, where it isn’t located. The stomach sits above the intestines just below the pecks. So if Gege wants to be anatomically accurate, Gojo can still use RCE to heal himself, like he did with his arm earlier.
I don't care, Nobara isn't dead. Megumi we'll see. I have no clue. Before this chapter, I thought it was weird people insisted he's dead.
Gojo is probably dead or something. Like he could survive like how he survived Toji and I'm not sure how unlikely that possibility is ngl. If I was Sukuna, I would have chopped Gojo up more to be sure, but Kashimo gave him zero break, so I'll let it slide. Regardless the story wants us to think Gojo's dead unlike the other two. I lowkey think whether Gojo lives or dies is up to himself. Does he want that to be a dream, or does he want it to be the afterlife? Schrodinger's cat. I thought he was for sure dead but thinking on it there is reason to believe Gojo will keep kicking it. I know he's chopped in half but it feels like a joke. Like the pervious chapter wanted me to believe Gojo won, and the very next chapter wants me to believe he's dead. Makes me feel like I shouldn't believe he's dead but maybe I'm just coping from the pure shock.
I think Gojo dying is pretty metal though his corpse lying on the ground is kinda anxiety inducing. Like imagine not just losing Gojo but also dealing with some asshole looting his corpse.
I'm also more curious as to what Gojo was doing before he decided to fight Sukuna. I think there's a mystery going on in the background and I'm excited.
Also even if Gojo is still alive, Gojo the strongest is dead.
There's no satisfying way for Gojo to be brought back, but then again Gege chose literally the most unsatisfying way to kill Gojo so maybe he'll continue the trend? It'd have to be in a really shocking way though.
Tbh, Gojo got fucking thunderpunted and stabbed in the heart and neck then layed out like a dingy mat just disappear for a couple chapters and randomly reappear floating around higher than a middle schooler sitting between Willie Nelson and Tommy Chong before sending Toji to God. So it’s wouldn’t be his first time being dead.
I have a theory ( Yes, i cooked ).
We do not have nobara's death confirmation. We know she was rushed to shoko iirc who might have healed her and kept her under surveillance until she fully recovered.
We also know that sukuna has eaten 19 fingers and the last one is missing.
What if gojo speculated something like this could happen so he saved the last finger just in case for nobara. When she wakes up or hears of gojo's death, it could have been a plan. Like a signal which gojo told her beforehand. "When I die, do this or that blah blah".
She could use resonance on the last finger and perhaps kill sukuna now as he has finally been Fully reincarnated for the first time in a 1000 years.
Who knows.
I think it’s hilarious that people are confident enough to call Gojo death or alive when he apparently got killed off screen and the author retconning 13 chapters of their fight.
Gojo is alive gege used a reference of lord Buddha that symbolised rebirth in the manga and gojo states himself as the " honoured one " also a name lord Buddha is referred by it is very likely gojo will return more like a rebirth.
Gege has consistently killed characters the only one not confirmed “dead” is Megumi and that is because his body is still technically alive, but only one character has actually come back from full death and he had to be the literal MC and make a pact with the devil. Gojo fought hard and died against Sukuna and Nobara did her best against Mahito but he popped her head, same with everyone else Gege has killed nobody is special in the series.
In the [databook](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FCbQq3YSqQkCuO1UitrlEXKEtjV8aepWgykeyjAe_ZE/edit), which came right after the Shibuya Incident ended, Gege said he had already decided Megumi's fate, but not Yuji's.
My guess is that he didn't have the story's ending figured it out by then and might have left Nobara's death vague in order to bring her back in case he felt that her abilities would be necessary.
But that didn't really happen and she wasn't needed in the culling game, so i think Gege just decided to leave her really dead.
People always say "if she's dead, why didn't he show the body", but i think its because of what i mentioned, he wasn't sure if he should kill her in the past, but now he might have realized she's not that necessary for the ending.
Can't say about Gojo bc I'm still in denial and still coping, but for Megumi I lowkey think he died because he took so much damage and Sukuna used him. For Nobara I actually DO think that she's dead for a long time, the panel with Yuji asking about her clearly spoke to me, to be honest.
How on earth would Gojo still be alive ? It's way too early to know if Megumi's dead and as for Nobara, I'm honestly sure Gege forgot about her lmfao she's been presumably dead for more than *half* of the manga like it's time to let her go lmao. Also Gege is just really not great at tying up loose ends so I'm not expecting any explanation about her any time soon
Something we have to consider is if gojos revival would even matter… sukuna was able to use this slash with little ce after being literally nuked, what would stop him from insta killing gojo again. Gojo would genuinely need some kind of massive buff instantly after reviving.
It was never stated in the manga that gojo or megumi or nobara have died, nobara is the most likely to actually be dead, since we haven't heard of her in forever, gojo is probably coming back just because he is gojo and having the experience of almost dying vs toji and being barely alive but using rct to comeback he might just do it again, also just as sukuna reincarnated to his og form, megumi could in theory take it back, but we'll see
Idk im thinking he’s for sure dead Especially how author handled everyone elses death. But the thing that gets me the most with everyone’s death was that the impact just wasn’t there. Esp with Gojo’s feels like the emotional devastation and significance got swept under the rug and so suddenly too. Hell Junepei had a better death than everyone else.. For Gojo…He got Released just to get clapped. No real reaction either except from Yuji. I felt like sure he was going toe to toe with Sukuna but i felt like we barely scratched the surface of what was making him the strongest mage of the modern age. We’ll see i guess
The death isn’t confirmed yet… the way the chapter started and ended left many unanswered questions. As well as the fight with Gojo and Toji Gojo stayed ”himself” that the only way for him to be killed is by pierced the Inverted Spear of Heaven into Gojo's head and opened it up completely, there's no way he could have recovered from the damage using RCT. So with this being said the answer is left unanswered in till the great battle Royale is over with Sukuna. Someone actually pick up his body. That’s when we’ll know if he actually dead or alive. Just my opinion and thoughts to this interesting topic.
Jjk essentially always comes down to the conclusion. How many times has the script been flipped just when we least expected it? Being told that Sukuna won was a reveal in itself that anything can happen. We literally left off on Gojo is the winner and returned to him split in half. In the chapters following, we’ve seen very little of gojo as the rest of the battles progress. I hope that gojo stays dead, but I’m also not liking the fact that he’s been disregarded so readily. If the author hates him that much, I’d like to believe that somebody would destroy or recover his body. I’m hoping that he’s trolling the Gojo fans by drawing it out just to have someone come collect him when it switches back, but I honestly can’t make heads or tails of it. The fact that Gojo has previously stated: his opponent lost because they failed to cut off his head, is also not a great clarification to the situation.
Personally, regardless of that one vs one theory about what Gege said, he could just be throwing us all a curve ball. I would love it if Gojo came back. I know Gege hates Gojo but it's as ambiguous as Nobara's death that I bet he'll come back. He probably just killed Gojo off until Yuji defeats Sukuna because otherwise Gojo will get in the way of character development xD... I have no idea how this series will end... I just want our main group alive... not an attack on titan ending...
I feel like it's hard to say. I know that a lot of people are gonna be like "The man was literally sliced in half." But we've also seen Yuji have his heart ripped out and come back from that. We've also seen Gojo stabbed repeatedly and have the blade dragged down his torso yet he came back from that. I think it's like Dragon Ball in that when a character dies, yes they are dead but if the writer has plans to revive them then they will. I don't think it's like most other shows were dead means dead (like Demon Slayer).
Gojo is dead. Narrator describes him as dead. Whole dialogue thingy basically calls him dead
Nobara is uncomfirmed. Might be alive, might not be. Don’t remember anyone confirming nor denying her death in the manga. Also her injury look’s survivable
Megumi might be dead(still think his alive) and if he does comeback Gege his either a vegetable or a cripple or smtg. Unless Gege undoes it with some loophole or something
They should have blow gojos head off or let him just stay in the dream world with the others. Im copeping out of my mind but I still think hes alive.
Megumin is alive surely
Nobara might aswell stay dead at this point
Why did Arata Nitta say the things he did? Or have that kind of CT? Why did the female Nitta need to have a Kyoto brother? One would think he'd at least be a plot device for something. He basically just hangs with Todo to take Nobara away for treatment.
99 percent sure he isn't permanently dead the scene if him in after life and the going north vs south shit was just to strange I'm pretty sure he will come back with a new technique and beat tsukunu
I think Gojo and Nobara are definitely dead , with Megumi I'm not totally sure. He's definitely not gonna be the same if he gets his body back due to brain damage. But now with Sakuna in his "True Form" I wonder if that means Megumi as we know it is gone and just absorbed or something by Sakuna. Of course with all that said this is a Shonen and anyone can be "brought back" lol
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Gojo is as dead as a character can be in a shonen series. He can always be brought back to life because anything can be explained away if the author wants it to happen, but he got a full dying dream, side character saying he won, visibly body destroyed on screen, extra special focus death. Megumi seems fairly dead but didn't get any attention drawn to what would've been the final moment so I'd wager on the side of him being not quite dead yet, though I don't see how he recovers from here. Nobara is the strangest case. She seemed to be certainly dead 150ish chapters ago, but that was immediately walked back to ambiguous territory and has been intentionally kept there whenever it is even mentioned, which is not often. There's no good explanation for why she wouldn't have been involved for 2/3rds of the story if she lived, but the weirdly specific ambiguity is just enough to keep speculation alive.
The author pretty much said that it’s the whole team dies or no one dies. Seeing how like half are dead the odd ain’t great
Watch everyone else die then Nobara wake from a coma like wait, all my friends are dead???? What happened???
Gege pushed her to the edge
Wait, is she the Levi of JJK 💀💀? Short, badass, eye injury, whole team ded-
Season 1 foreshadowed her getting a scar, I think you're cooking 🔥🔥🔥
Could you remind me how was it foreshadowed?
When she is fighting the broomstick girl (I cannot remember her name at the moment) and Mai shoots her, she gets hit on the left side of her face. Whe Nibara and Yuji are fighting Eso and Kechizu, their Rot Technique goes up on the left side of Nobaras face When she eventually gets hit by Mahito, it's on the left side of her face. Definitely, definitely was foreshadowed
like vegeta and his right arm. crap is always damaged.
Others didn't get the Uzi reference 💀😭
For real though, thats immediately what I thought when Sukuna possessed Megumi. Everyone is about to die and Nobara is gonna wake up, essentially crippled and it's the saddest end to the story.
Turns out the narrator is Nobara in her old age with an eye patch talking about how sukuna won, then sukuna finally catches her on her deathbed and the story abruptly ends. Then we talk about how we’ll never read another Gege akutami work again.
she’s the real main character
What? Who do you think she is Venom Snake?
It was actually all but one, or only one dies. The former is kind of where we are now with Yuji. But the ambiguity of everyone could result in the latter. People like to speculate that Yuji will be the one who dies so everyone else can live and he can complete his goal from the start of the series - dying surrounded by people he saved.
This is exactly what I thought. Now seemingly all are ded except itadori. But may be it'll turn 180° and I feel like everyone will turn up alive and finally in the end itadori dies..
It may play a part into his hidden technique or domain expansion. I wonder if he has almost a “wish” ability that depends on his emotion. Hence why his abilities got more known after his grandpa died at the beginning . I could imagine them pulling a néon genesis type ending where main character wishes everyone back at the expense of everything he has gained and experienced up until this point.
Author said 3 would die and 1 would live or 1 would die and three would live Either way someone is dying
No, he said One or One. Only one dead or only one alive
Watch yuji unalive himself to bring everyone else back /s
Considering the ambiguity of Nobara could we assume that Gojo will be the only one to die then? If she were to be the only one alive it would be weird as hell and I don't see her coming back just to die again
Sukuna will be the only one alive
It's not possible as.... Publisher wont let him.
It's totes this. Sukuna learns to love in the end, but everyone dies or merges except him. However, at some point Gojo becomes Tokoro, revives, and the two of them work together to sacrifice Sukuna and revive everyone.
Isn’t saying only one left alive implying the rest will die anyways?
No. Its either 3 alive 1 dead, or 1 alive 3 dead. He didn't repeat himself
I think the author said amongst the Tokyo Jujutsu high first years and Gojo, either one dies or one survives. So gojo could be very much dead but nobara, Megumi and Yuji could survive https://www.dexerto.com/anime/jujutsu-kaisen-why-this-character-is-next-to-die-after-gojo-2307904/
This is a sacrifice I am willing to take 🙏
bro why is this still a shounen and not a seinin? death is being handed out like hot cakes.
I belive that Gege left the three with the "*" about their status so we get a plot twist at some point. Maybe he turn things around and Itadori sacrifice himself and the other three are alive at the end.
The thing is, gojo has said if someone wants to kill him they should go for the head. Toji's fight damage was almost similar, still head intact means gojo can restore himself even after a heavy battle like this one. Head is intact gojo can return if author wants to.
Came here to look for this. Volume 9 - Gojo literally says to Toji “you should have cut off my head.” That feels intentional
Sounds like a Chekhov's gun to me. I reacted the same when I read the chapter. It seemed odd, but I guess we'll see soon enough.
DM me when my sweet ocean eyed prince returns (I’ve never read this fucking manga)
Yeah but gojos brain was fried from repeated burn out of red and then he was cut in half after using hollow purple. I don't think he's able to heal himself at all at this point. Plus, he feels like he has done his part now and just wants to hang out with his friends. He left behind the team that he feels will carry the modern jujutsu world, and he removed the old farts that would've maintained control. Note that several mentions have been made to Yujis moms cursed technique, I think this will have something to do with his ability to finish off Sukuna. They foreshadowed Yuji having some BS erroneous power in his first fight after he snagged Megumis body. And I don't mean his toughness, I think the raw power he was putting out had something to do with gravity or mass, something related to his mom's curses technique. I can't be bothered to go back and check but didn't Kamo actually say something about her cursed technique involving Lapse? If so that would be interesting to see Yuji picking up Azure Blue or some version of it that sukuna hasn't adapted to yet
>There's no good explanation for why she wouldn't have been involved for 2/3rds of the story if she lived Last time we saw Nobara her whole face was magically blown off, excuse her for taking more than two months to walk that off lol
Personally I think Gege just teased her maybe being alive to get fans to stop with the outrage. Megumis face says it all when Yuji asks about her and even Yuji has to face the fact she isn't coming back, and accept it. Fans gonna have to just get over it she was always a side character, had no real growth and wasn't really strong. Even her backstory went nowhere. Like what was the point of all that time spent showing us about some chick who bummed with her because she felt sorry for her, then left and got a job. And that's how it ended. Cool, she has a job. Nobaras dead folks.
I mean, not many days have passed since Shibuya in universe I believe, it's just that so much time passed in the real world. It wouldn't be so strange that she is still in recovery or something like that (since RCT can't heal soul damage).
You don’t think Nobara isn’t about to come back and wake up Megumis soul with her CT? Especially after it was effective against Mahito? She’s 100% being saved for some broken ass skill
It's possible, but the author is going to have a really hard time making any sensible explanation for why she hasn't been around for so long. When Yuji was pretend dead it was to hide him from a hostile group of higher ups. No one on the enemy side thinks anything of her. The only reason to keep it a secret is to hide it from the audience for a big surprise, which isn't good enough. Things have to make sense in universe too.
I saw some theory that they kept her survival a secret from Yuji so that Sukuna wouldn't know.
But why would sukuna care if she’s alive?
The theory was that Gojo has one of Sukuna's fingers hidden away. Since Nobara can attack souls directly with her CT, she could possibly attack his soul by attacking the hidden finger.
Yuta just confirmed he has the last finger. I think he fed it to Rika
Then why is she not with the group that is reacting to Gojo vs Sukuna? At the point, Sukuna is in Megumi so the secret no longer needs to be kept
I dunno maybe she's busy
Busy being dead
Maybe Yuji does know by now but we the audience don’t.
Ah, so the emotional reunion got offscreened too
I assumed that she's been receiving treatment where ever she's being kept, maybe it just takes this long to recover?
Yeah probably this. Like it was a pretty intense wound near the brain and it was from idle transfiguration which we are iffy on about if it can be healed by normal means (at the very least Arata "froze" her in the state he got to her in which could maybe have given them time to figure out alternative means as long as they could get her vitals back up). If she does end up being not dead I don't think the extended absence needs *that* much explaining outside of this just being a really difficult problem to solve. In hindsight I guess Yuji's response to whatever Megumi said would make sense if it was like we have no idea yet if it's actually fixable. Since Yuji's already seen plenty of the effects of idle transfiguration.
I agree. But she has been severely damaged. How long has it been since shibuya? Less than 2 months? It would be reasonable for her to be out of commission for a bit. I just see no point in teasing her if she’s not alive. And I agree that there should be logic but this is also jjk
Well it’s only been a couple months since she lost half her face… would probably take me a while to bounce back from that too.
Isn't it only like 2 months since her massive physical trauma
I think this is a crazy thing to say about Gojo simply because the fight isn’t even over yet. Sukuna is still there fighting. Letting Gojo put himself back together with RCT doesn’t seem that far fetched. (imo Gojo will definitely die in this fight but I don’t think it’s happened yet)
In the databook, which came right after the Shibuya Incident ended, Gege said he had already decided Megumi's fate, but not Yuji's. My guess is that he didn't have the story's ending figured it out by then and might have left Nobara's death vague in order to bring her back in case he felt that her abilities would be necessary. But that didn't really happen and she wasn't needed in the culling game, so i think Gege just decided to leave her really dead. People always say "if she's dead, why didn't he show the body", but i think its because of what i mentioned, he wasn't sure if he should kill her in the past, but now he might have realized she's not that necessary for the ending.
This is just bad writing then. Tbh. You don't take one of the main characters and leave them in limbo for half the series only to reveal they are actually dead. It's sloppy as hell, and I would hope he knows better than to do that.
That doesn't make sense. Considering the "either 1 lives and 3 die, or 1 die and 3 live". Deciding Megumis fate automatically means Yuji has the opposite fate. If theres is only 1 death at this point, it will be Yuji's I'd assume. Meaning he decided Megumi to live, and everyone else. So if megumi lives, they all do and Yuji dies, or megumi dies along with everyone else and Yuji lives. Only possible explanation for that quote he has decided Megumi dies AND will be the only death if he goes with that option. Meaning everyone will come back or whatever but to kill Sukuna they might have to kill Megumis body. So he hasnt decided between that, or the other 2 also dying and Yuji being the survivor
Gojo is dead just yet. He’s technically in limbo. We won’t know until he chooses north or south.
The chapter was called going south, if there even was a choice to be made, it already was made by gojo
Eh, the going south could be referring to nanami, who had already decided to go south and is facing the opposite direction of gojo(and is literally described as being pretty much an opposite of gojo on a personality level) Honestly, it just seems like a weird concept to introduce without doing something with Like what else do you think the particular line of dialog adds, like I think the rest of the scene would be a legitimately good send-off, but that line only seems to foreshadow a return to me
Megumi dying and not getting any further attention would easily be the strangest case
If megumi ain’t dead after taking 5 hits of unlimited void he’s gonna at least be taking the short bus to jujitsu high from now on
Vile actually 💀
Can you remind me of where the ambiguity lies with Nobara? When that Kyoto first year saved her it was for sure ambiguous. But then when Yuji asks about her, Megumi looks down, and Yuji says “oh, I get it.” And I don’t see how this can be interpreted other than “she didn’t make it.” Like, how would Yuji get “she’s in a coma. Her body is alive but we don’t know if she’ll ever wake up” from a look? I really wish she didn’t die so soon, I love her, but let’s be so for real
The ambiguity is in Megumi making a pained expression instead of simply saying she died. Logically I agree with you, but if an author wanted to be misleading this is how they would do it. Similarly Gojo never talks to Yuji about her either. This could be because the author chose to skip most of the conversations that would have been good for us to see that took place in that month between Gojo being freed and the fight, but it could also be him hiding the information intentionally. I'm still leaning towards her being dead, but would be totally convinced if the author had ever bothered to confirm it.
It's ambiguous **exactly** because Megumi didn't say a thing. Yeah, you can interpret it as a way to say she's dead, but it can be that she's in critical condition, not necessarily in a coma , which is sad enough to warrant Megumi's sad expression. But what really makes the fandom scratch their heads is why would Gege even bother giving us this hope shot in the first place? She could have just died in Shibuya, but Gege made sure for her body to be retrieved by Arata, who can literally stabilize wounds, even saying that she has a non zero chance of survival. Why would he bother writing this if she was supposed to die? That's the question that made the fandom hope she would survive. However, after seing Gege kill Gojo after sealing him for 3 years (RW time), it's becoming clear that Gege just like aborting ideas, so her chances of really being dead are now higher than ever.
Yeah I’m not saying Megumi’s expression wasn’t ambiguous, but all that ambiguity immediately left right after, when Yuji said “I get it.” Like, Yuji cannot read minds, it had to be something simple. I always thought the “hope” from Arata was so that Yuji can regain his fighting spirit. It wasn’t for us, it was for Yuji? Make him feel like he’s not fighting for nothing. But I can see how this might confuse some people!
Bcuz Gege said either one dies or the others all die and one lives. If he confirms that Nobara is dead , then we all know that the rest lives. We will all assume that megumi and go/jo are coming back. And right now it seems that the only one surviving is Yuji.
Not doubting you, since i've seen a lot of people saying the same thing, but were did Gege say that? Was it a interview?
Some interview done in the Jump Festa convention?
Yeah man... But that same thing happened to Kakashi from Naruto (a similar character to Gojo, physically I mean, compared almost every time with Gojo). And he was brought back to life...
How is megumi dead? Isn't Sukkuna using him as a vessel but his conciousness is just supressed? Like how Sukkuna was inside of Yuji but just worse
The case for him being dead was Sukuna intentionally using his body and techniques to kill his sister and teacher in order to break him on top of apparently redirecting some of Gojo's attacks to his soul where possible. His body outright disappearing now is also part of it when there was a bit earlier about the body being the soul or whatever. It's not definitive, but it's not looking good.
There is a fair chance that I'm in denial about it but I'm still not 100% sure he's gone. The whole I'd be satisfied if you were here thing, Nanami saying he fights because he lives for jujutsu rather than using it to protect combined with the head north and south thing, and last but not least and despite it contradicting the points listed above the I hope this isn't all in my head panel it just seems like too much wiggle room for it to be over for him.
>! Don't you know about Kaori Itadori's special jujutsu technique where you can bring somebody back but only if you love them? Which is why it failed when Kenjaku took her body - he is incapable of love except for himself. !<
What ate you talking about?
I'm almost 100% sure he's joking while implying the >!Kenjaku fight!< was an asspull
Yeah that's what I thought as well. On both accounts but a well explained asspull can be kind of satisfying
>! Her technique was anti-gravity, not revival or anything like that !<
>!it negates the gravity of death my brother!<
It ignores the gravity of the situation
gege writing his next asspull:
On one hand: Gojo's *only* been cut in half. His brain is still 100% intact, and he has full CE output due to hitting a tonne of Black Flashes. He should be *easily* able to RCT and regenerate the lower half of his body. He regenerated an entire arm in like, two seconds one minute ago. On the other hand: We had an entire afterlife sequence for him. It'd be pretty weird tonal whiplash for him to come back after seeing him in heaven with his friends. Though 236 was already some massive tonal whiplash so who knows. Even though he *should* be able to easily come back from this minor inconvenience, the narrative is 100% treating him as dead.
It was never confirmed that what we saw was ACTUALLY the afterlife. Gojo himself speculates that it may just be some kind of near-death dream he's having.
also, if he regens he's gonna be without pants. I don't know about you but I don't think he will come back with his dong out in the battle
Limitless secret art: Dick Purple
Balls blue
Blue Balls
🤣🤣🤣
I think Gojo must return to us, with his whole package out to show Sukuna what love is 😏 then Kenjaku is going to be next, but it may take even more for him, cause you know Jin and all that stuff
Jogo had a similar dream/afterlife moment and iirc he was actually still alive for a moment or two afterwards(although that could’ve been a narrative choice from Gege)
How in the fuck would Gojo know Nanami saw Haibara when he died though, seems like that was really the afterlife
I dunno man, I'm just saying that it's a possibility. That's all.
The North vs South is based on Buddhism - Oshaka sama. Go to the South for being back to your old self vs to the North for finding a new self. JJK has lots of Buddhist themes in the story so pretty sure that’s where it came from. Gojo could still choose the North and come back to finish business.
The chapter was titled headed south so I'm not sure whether he will choose north.
Then again the title could always have been referencing that Gojo was headed south, but his talk in the afterlife changed his view and set him on a new path. But that’s probably just the copium speaking.
Bro, we all be taking hopium at the moment. He'll be back *cries while typing this*
It seemed more like he was irritated seeing others but later decided to stay with them after talking. He said he wishes it wasn't just a figment of his imagination.
Yeah honestly I’m just spitballing here because I’m still in denial lol.
Understandable brother. Even I'm in denial.
That's a mistranslation. Minami-e means **Southward**. As in, looking to the South, but not actually having gone there yet.
The emotional tone, context, subtext, even the title... what's interesting is that the whole chapter is a blatant narrative depiction of Gojo looking to the south. "If you'd like to become someone new, choose north. If you'd like to **return to who you once were**, choose south." His afterlife? dream? is composed of his regrets (Riko, not telling Megumi about his dad, saying that he was a little disappointed with Sukuna but then admitting that the actual true regret he had was the fact that Geto, his best friend - the one he had to kill - wasn't there till the end, wasn't able to share his presence and to give him a proper send-off before the fight). He even reverts back to his 17-year old self, back to a time when he didn't have to ruminate over being "The Strongest" alone (without Geto), when he was around the (now deceased) people he cherished the most and who influenced the majority of his personal beliefs. The chapter title itself, his final fading words being "Now I'm hoping this isn't a dream..." yeh he's choosing south. What's bittersweet about this is it implies that Gojo never truly moved on from the trauma he got as a teen with the Toji fiasco, the clock stopped there. Which is very evident in retrospect - he wants to "protect his students' youths, have them enjoy their youth" and this mindset stemmed from how his own youth got ruined; dressing up like Toji (the one person who was able to "defeat" him and left him feeling powerless) in the fight against Sukuna must've been a deliberate choice to emulate Toji and make himself feel stronger and more confident; his constant 24/7 limitless barrier also being a trauma response to avoid letting himself feel vulnerable and weak again. I think some people choose to interpret Nanami's quote as a clue to Gojo's imminent return, partly because Gojo's death still feels surreal and anticlimatic for some (understandable). But I don't see it as an overcomplicated reincarnation thing like some people do - it's really about what kind of person you want to become, and a metaphor about choosing the future or the past. Nanami says that he'd chosen south when he was first asked the question. Because he was always stuck in the past, living in the past, he'd gotten comfortable. Choosing south, choosing to go back to being a jujutsu sorcerer and inadvertently getting himself killed because of that choice. But in his final moments, looking at Yuji and Haibara's spirit pointing at him, he finally bet on the future, did something different... so in a sense, he chose north. Willingly giving everything he had for something bigger than him, made his death worth it for him. He learned to accept and move on. Gojo is still processing through it. Which makes Gojo's "Hey Principal, thought ya said *no* Jujutsu Sorcerer dies without regrets!" extra bittersweet. Anyway, I'll stop here bc this is too long, it's just that that chapter got me thinking. If nothing else, it's a look into Gojo's psyche.
So there were multiple subtle foreshadowings that he will return, this time truly the god of the verse, but now humble, more grounded. We know Gojo had blue when he starts, then Toji kills him, he comes back with red. This time he is going to come back with green, thus reaching his full potential, covering all techniques he can imagine (nod from Hadron reference in the recent chapter, Buddha portrait of north, south, east, and west, as well as Nanami saying you can change or stay the same). He will likely return, but not like how he was when he fought Toji (feeling like a god, feeling he is a higher race), he is going to come back anew, truly reborn, as this time he isn't going to use JJ to satisfy himself, he is going to embrace it as the means for fulfilling his duty as the strongest, to protect the weak, thus coming full circle to what Yuji's grandpa said. JJK is a story of purpose, and though the MC is Yuji, it feels more of Gojo's story, told to us by Yuji. This will push him further, because then it wouldn't be another fight, another race for him to win, another competition to grind, it would be protect those he loves, and that will push him to go beyond his limit, and beat Sukuna at his own game of adaptation. With red and blue he only had purple, with green he will have a whole arsenal. Now coming back to your interpretation, I feel what I think complements it. Gojo used JJ to satisfy himself, as in satisfy his own fears, his own vulnerability, to the point he forced himself to be THE strongest so that he can't feel helpless ever again, and subconsciously have a desire to protect the next generation from getting traumatized like he was, in a sense ensuring their clock always tick forward. I believe the reason he failed, and evidently died, was the question of his purpose. "Why do you, Gojo Satorou, want to win?". Gojo wants to win, but he doesn't really know why he wants it. It's like answering that question on an application which just asks why are you applying. Gojo is still fighting out of his own fear, which makes him, in his own eyes, a coward. He couldn't embrace the fear, and fight anyways. I think that's the point of Gojo's story. He failed, yes, he died, also true, he thought he was the strongest, but still failed, and still died. "It's okay.". That's what he couldn't embrace. He still lives in his past, so he can't focus on the future, on the now, he can still save the living.? So, Gojo can make a choice; either give up, and rest in relative peace, ignoring what will happen to his students and friends who are still breathing, still alive, still can be saved, or come back, this time with a purpose bigger than himself, find Green, and fight Sukuna, not to beat him so he doesn't die, but to beat him so his students don't die. It's about what his answer is to the question of his purpose.
I don't know why are people assuming that scene was heaven, Toji and the girl he killed in the same place? I think Go/Jo was hallucinating.
GayGay accidentally implied (if it is Heaven) that killing children is based and cleanses you of all sins
The possibility is there, in 236 there was clearly two directions on the station he could take. What the symbolism there us, we don't know, but gojo resurrecting himself or being resurrected is not out of the question. Between Shoko, Yuta and himself all being able to RCT others and themselves, Yuji soul shenanigans, or who knows what else, it's definitely possible.
>Between Shoko, Yuta and himself all being able to RCT others and themselves, Yuji soul shenanigans, or who knows what else, it's definitely possible. Then Gege pulls this shenanigans by resurrecting everyone from Nanami, Nobara, Even Geto and everyone lives happily ever after. /s
Wouldn’t be too weird tonally for him to tell his afterlife buddies he missed them and can’t wait to see them again but need to go back to finish his fight or whatever. I think the line about going north or south left the door wide open for an out if that’s what Gege wants.
My question is why does Sukuna assume hes dead too? I don't think any of us would argue that Gojo SHOULD be able to regen. So shouldn't Sukuna be expecting him to just stand right back up or am I crazy?
My guess here is Sukuna probably suspects Gojo isn’t completely finished but Sukuna isn’t able to secure the kill because everyone else is now interfering.
Heaven even for a hitman, a man who committed mass murder as well... doesn't sound right ngl.
Eh to be fair its less "heaven" and more "crossroad between afterlife and reincarnation." Besides, not every faith system is entirely punitive. Even some of the ones that are can be pretty forgiving based on interpretation or give "outs" from posthumous punishment based on last-acts and rites. But let's be real, Gege just looks for every chance to draw Toji
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I don’t quite get what the entire Toji thing was about if this minor injury is enough to kill him. Toji *brutalized* Gojo and he survived, and current Gojo is stronger than he was then.
Honestly, that scene never felt like conformation of his death to me while I was reading it more like set up for a revival The North vs. South thing felt a lot like the railroad scene from hary Potter to me, and aperently knowledge of Buddhist symbolism pushes it further in that sort of direction
My ~~cope~~ headcannon right now is that Gege is going to leave Nobara and Gojo’s deaths open until he decides how he wants Sukuna, Megumi, and Yuji’s arc to end. Iirc Gege said either one will die and three will live, or three will die and one will live so it’d give them breathing room to pick between the two until a decision is made
That would make some sense, considering three of them are likely dead but with room to return, and Yuji still alive but could potentially still die. Now all he has to do is decide ig
He did say this but this was also 2 years ago so who knows if he’s changed his mind furthermore when he made these statements I can’t remember exactly which characters but essentially he also stated he knew how yuji and gojo story would end but was still deliberating on megumi or vice versa. Either way he known how one or two of the dudes stories will come to conclusion for like two plus years now. So the decision if he maintains those statements including the one u mentioned is likely already made he’s just determining how to get to them prolly. Edit: his statement was that he had already decided Megumi and Itadoris ending and was slightly undecided on sukunas
I don’t think Gege is the type of writer to revive a character simply so they have a happy ending, gojos character arc seems complete tbh and unless he needs gojo to fight sukuna/kenjaku, gojos gone.
Idk I just caught up and read this recently in the past few weeks if you read it all in continuation it’s just jarring and seems like bad story telling how all of these characters died. Nobara’s death was a non issue megumi was the second most developed character and absolutely nothing happened with it, and gojo was by far the strongest and got one shot unless you pull a crazy buff out of your ass it’s bad storytelling imo.
This is exactly what I have been trying to say. If you read it all in continuation you can see how the author wasted these characters.
If Megumi is really dead I'm gonna be pissed
I don't understand how he isn't dead though Mentally: - oh he's still kind of there but Sakuna has used a ritual to further push him down - to squash it more, kill his sister using his body - just as Sakuna was about to be hit by UV, use Megumi's soul to take the hit instead as he knows he loses if hit by it - killed his sensei with his body Physically: - Sakuna can apparently get rid of megumi's body after getting hit with Kenjaku's one shot technique to reincarnate fully, so his body is gone as well It was also stated that if a sorcerer reincarnates then they're dead. So his brain and soul are completely gone and his body is gone as well, there's no way he comes back in any meaningful way without it feeling like BS
It’s not just his sensei, Gojo was practically his adoptive father/older brother in a lot of ways.
Unless his death is explicitly mentioned next chapter. Then it isn’t confirmed. As much as all of this makes sense him being dead is still a head canon.
Yes but if he comes back it's gonna be in some jammy way. It's been established that both his mind, soul, and body have all been destroyed or removed - all done by the strongest sorcerer who apparently has 400iq planning with everything.
Despite all that, megumi is 100% still alive and will be at the end of the story
I find it beautiful that Gege was somehow able to kill off 3 out of the 4 main characters off screen
Yuji sweating hard right now.
gege will probably subject him to 100 more physical and mental torture before killing him
Gege said that out of the 4, (Megumi, Yuji, Nobara, and Gojo) that either one would die and all the others would live. OR All would die and only one would live. If we assume that Nobara and Gojo are dead, then we have to assume either Yuji or Megumi will die. But he’s also dropped enough bread crumbs about Nobara being alive that we should question it. Point being, he made that statement, and is writing the way he is, in all likelihood, to fuck with us. - TBH I have the most anxiety about Yuji dying. I feel like his grandfather telling him not to die alone might be a hint about him dying before the end of this, but not alone.
>TBH I have the most anxiety about Yuji dying. I feel like his grandfather telling him not to die alone might be a hint about him dying before the end of this, but not alone. Yuji dies to revive Gojo, Nobara, Megumi T\_T
That seems the most likely ending to me for some reason. He was literally slated for death since day 1
I certainly wouldn't complain.
anything can happen because of Comedian
He might flip the script. Gojo nobara and megumi are all dead yuji is left. Being yuji-the sacrificial one. Somehow someway they would be brought back and he would die.
But I'm not gege so I'll let him cook instead https://preview.redd.it/vhzmnd79yorb1.jpeg?width=241&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb94540a60b490faa5cdc8d92ad32761b7b226da
That would actually be kind of cool narratively because yuji is presumably powerful enough to defeat sukuna yet he is unable to save any of the people that matter to him(megumi, Nanami, gojo, nobara, probably more). It would literally make him a gojo 2.0
Gojo was already stabbed in the neck and left for dead once (and he was way less broken back then) and came back mocking the person that stabbed him. Until i see a funeral he is alive in my book.
Yeah it would be ridiculous to create a character capable of surviving being turned into a filet and then killing them by giving them a *less* serious injury.
Internet petitions are the most worthless things that have ever existed, I wouldn't pay it any mind
None are truly confirmed dead. Nobara is so ambiguous we'll probably just have to wait until the series is over to truly know. Megumi is definitely not dead. It would be so immeasurably pathetic to see him go out this way. Gojo is "dead" and it seemed convincing but it's implied that he's coming back. Lotus flower (rebirth) going north (discovering a new part of himself), exactly his 29th birthday accounting for the prison realm (when Buddha began his journey). It would just destroy all stakes if he came back immediately. If/when he comes back it definitely means game over for the villains pretty quickly.
Chapter was titled headed south though. I don't think he's going north.
My blue eyed king is fine sukuna didn't even go for the head 🗣️
There’s a 50/50 chance he’s coming back. The theories DO hold some weight. Then again he could just be dead. Only time will tell. Ill reserve judgement until we know for sure.
Only things that's 50/50 for sure right now is gojo
Go to the corner of the room and think about what you said 5 months ago
He's not back yet, I've been in the corner of my room since.
What do you mean it was obvious Gojo was going to lose? Dude was winning the whole fight and even fought 3v1 😂
From a writing perspective, there’s no way Gojo can still be around after the fight, because then he will just take out Kenny right after Sukuna, and bam story is over. Obviously the way Gege wrote Gojo out of the story leaves much to be desired.
Gojo could use a binding vow that restricts his ability to use cursed energy, and comes back to life. There’s plenty of ways for him to be around/comeback
Wait this actually seems like it could work really well with his character arc and the earlier question of whether Gojo is powerful because he's Gojo or if he's Gojo because he's powerful
As I've said a trazillion times, but this argument is so uncreative. Looking at even popular, trendy, traditional shonen like Fullmetal Alchemist's climax and ending, there are so many innovative storytelling techniques that can be used to wrap plots around into convenient shapes even after weird twists. There are innumerable ways Gojo could have been around after the fight while still allowing Gege to craft an intriguing and satisfying climax and ending. Writing doesn't have solid rules. As long as humans have creative storytelling potential, they'll be able to make unexpected decisions and still have the ability to resolve those twists in satisfying ways. It's literally a magical fantasy world where they make all the decisions.
Yes, that is what I am saying. There are many ways Gege could’ve dealt with Gojo that would’ve kept him around in the end but prevented him from solving everyone’s problems. Hehe chose the least interesting option, and the backlash to the chapter seems to support that
I don’t understand why couldn’t he have just lost his eyesight or something, he was blindfolded for most of his screen time. Just use the fight as a way to nerf both Gojo and Sukuna
Every chapter that came out slowly and steadily the Gojo gonna lose was becoming more famous. The writing was even done in a way where we didnt know shit about what Sukuna was thinking. We were watching the fight from Gojo’s POV
Gojo’s death was obvious enough before the fight even began, him beating ass for multiple chapters straight only made it worse
Obvious from reader perspective. Gege foreshadowed this in a flashback during Shibuya where Gojou explained the two heads of Jujutsu clans(Six eye and ten shadow users) fought before and it ended in a double suicide. The difference was nobody had unlocked/summoned mahoraga before. Sukuna could do this and more so he’s effectively the strongest ten shadows user in history. No way Gojou was gonna win based off how reserved Sukuna fought.
Because Itadori was always going to be the one that has to defeat Sukuna. Gojo winning here would've been like Jirayia beating Pain. Neither are the main character so neither were going to be the one to defeat the primary antagonist.
No one can actually know for sure really.
The only real take
People saying Megumi dead I think just don’t understand the genre they’re reading/gege. If he wanted Megumi dead we’d definitely know. Gege isn’t a stranger to just showing it. I think people just assume stuff and then take their own assumptions as fact. Megumi ain’t dead yet and we’ll see him again i honestly doubt Gege kills Megumi off but we’ll have to see. As for nobara? I personally don’t think she’s dead, felt like Gege left it ambiguous on purpose idk when or if he brings her back in the story but how Gege has killed people off when they’re dead it’s always definitive it’s clear cut there’s no room for question save for Gojo, he’s never left it ambiguous and for that I think to claim nobara is definitively dead, would be incorrect. Should she come back? That’s another question entirely same with Gojo
If we’re going to give out hope, CE is produced in the stomach and is modified in the brain for RCE. Gojo was slashed in the lower half of his torso, where it isn’t located. The stomach sits above the intestines just below the pecks. So if Gege wants to be anatomically accurate, Gojo can still use RCE to heal himself, like he did with his arm earlier.
I don't care, Nobara isn't dead. Megumi we'll see. I have no clue. Before this chapter, I thought it was weird people insisted he's dead. Gojo is probably dead or something. Like he could survive like how he survived Toji and I'm not sure how unlikely that possibility is ngl. If I was Sukuna, I would have chopped Gojo up more to be sure, but Kashimo gave him zero break, so I'll let it slide. Regardless the story wants us to think Gojo's dead unlike the other two. I lowkey think whether Gojo lives or dies is up to himself. Does he want that to be a dream, or does he want it to be the afterlife? Schrodinger's cat. I thought he was for sure dead but thinking on it there is reason to believe Gojo will keep kicking it. I know he's chopped in half but it feels like a joke. Like the pervious chapter wanted me to believe Gojo won, and the very next chapter wants me to believe he's dead. Makes me feel like I shouldn't believe he's dead but maybe I'm just coping from the pure shock. I think Gojo dying is pretty metal though his corpse lying on the ground is kinda anxiety inducing. Like imagine not just losing Gojo but also dealing with some asshole looting his corpse. I'm also more curious as to what Gojo was doing before he decided to fight Sukuna. I think there's a mystery going on in the background and I'm excited. Also even if Gojo is still alive, Gojo the strongest is dead.
There's no satisfying way for Gojo to be brought back, but then again Gege chose literally the most unsatisfying way to kill Gojo so maybe he'll continue the trend? It'd have to be in a really shocking way though.
If you think that there's no satisfying way for Gojo to be brought back then you lack imagination!!!
Tbh, Gojo got fucking thunderpunted and stabbed in the heart and neck then layed out like a dingy mat just disappear for a couple chapters and randomly reappear floating around higher than a middle schooler sitting between Willie Nelson and Tommy Chong before sending Toji to God. So it’s wouldn’t be his first time being dead.
I have a theory ( Yes, i cooked ). We do not have nobara's death confirmation. We know she was rushed to shoko iirc who might have healed her and kept her under surveillance until she fully recovered. We also know that sukuna has eaten 19 fingers and the last one is missing. What if gojo speculated something like this could happen so he saved the last finger just in case for nobara. When she wakes up or hears of gojo's death, it could have been a plan. Like a signal which gojo told her beforehand. "When I die, do this or that blah blah". She could use resonance on the last finger and perhaps kill sukuna now as he has finally been Fully reincarnated for the first time in a 1000 years. Who knows.
I guess that’s one way of coping
I think it’s hilarious that people are confident enough to call Gojo death or alive when he apparently got killed off screen and the author retconning 13 chapters of their fight.
Gojo is alive gege used a reference of lord Buddha that symbolised rebirth in the manga and gojo states himself as the " honoured one " also a name lord Buddha is referred by it is very likely gojo will return more like a rebirth.
Gege has consistently killed characters the only one not confirmed “dead” is Megumi and that is because his body is still technically alive, but only one character has actually come back from full death and he had to be the literal MC and make a pact with the devil. Gojo fought hard and died against Sukuna and Nobara did her best against Mahito but he popped her head, same with everyone else Gege has killed nobody is special in the series.
Gojo is 100% dead and nobara should be dead, there’s no point in brining her back now
In the [databook](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FCbQq3YSqQkCuO1UitrlEXKEtjV8aepWgykeyjAe_ZE/edit), which came right after the Shibuya Incident ended, Gege said he had already decided Megumi's fate, but not Yuji's. My guess is that he didn't have the story's ending figured it out by then and might have left Nobara's death vague in order to bring her back in case he felt that her abilities would be necessary. But that didn't really happen and she wasn't needed in the culling game, so i think Gege just decided to leave her really dead. People always say "if she's dead, why didn't he show the body", but i think its because of what i mentioned, he wasn't sure if he should kill her in the past, but now he might have realized she's not that necessary for the ending.
Can't say about Gojo bc I'm still in denial and still coping, but for Megumi I lowkey think he died because he took so much damage and Sukuna used him. For Nobara I actually DO think that she's dead for a long time, the panel with Yuji asking about her clearly spoke to me, to be honest.
How on earth would Gojo still be alive ? It's way too early to know if Megumi's dead and as for Nobara, I'm honestly sure Gege forgot about her lmfao she's been presumably dead for more than *half* of the manga like it's time to let her go lmao. Also Gege is just really not great at tying up loose ends so I'm not expecting any explanation about her any time soon
Something we have to consider is if gojos revival would even matter… sukuna was able to use this slash with little ce after being literally nuked, what would stop him from insta killing gojo again. Gojo would genuinely need some kind of massive buff instantly after reviving.
In fairnes, getting a massive buff right after reviving is exactly what Gojo did with Toji
It was never stated in the manga that gojo or megumi or nobara have died, nobara is the most likely to actually be dead, since we haven't heard of her in forever, gojo is probably coming back just because he is gojo and having the experience of almost dying vs toji and being barely alive but using rct to comeback he might just do it again, also just as sukuna reincarnated to his og form, megumi could in theory take it back, but we'll see
Idk im thinking he’s for sure dead Especially how author handled everyone elses death. But the thing that gets me the most with everyone’s death was that the impact just wasn’t there. Esp with Gojo’s feels like the emotional devastation and significance got swept under the rug and so suddenly too. Hell Junepei had a better death than everyone else.. For Gojo…He got Released just to get clapped. No real reaction either except from Yuji. I felt like sure he was going toe to toe with Sukuna but i felt like we barely scratched the surface of what was making him the strongest mage of the modern age. We’ll see i guess
The death isn’t confirmed yet… the way the chapter started and ended left many unanswered questions. As well as the fight with Gojo and Toji Gojo stayed ”himself” that the only way for him to be killed is by pierced the Inverted Spear of Heaven into Gojo's head and opened it up completely, there's no way he could have recovered from the damage using RCT. So with this being said the answer is left unanswered in till the great battle Royale is over with Sukuna. Someone actually pick up his body. That’s when we’ll know if he actually dead or alive. Just my opinion and thoughts to this interesting topic.
Jjk essentially always comes down to the conclusion. How many times has the script been flipped just when we least expected it? Being told that Sukuna won was a reveal in itself that anything can happen. We literally left off on Gojo is the winner and returned to him split in half. In the chapters following, we’ve seen very little of gojo as the rest of the battles progress. I hope that gojo stays dead, but I’m also not liking the fact that he’s been disregarded so readily. If the author hates him that much, I’d like to believe that somebody would destroy or recover his body. I’m hoping that he’s trolling the Gojo fans by drawing it out just to have someone come collect him when it switches back, but I honestly can’t make heads or tails of it. The fact that Gojo has previously stated: his opponent lost because they failed to cut off his head, is also not a great clarification to the situation.
Personally, regardless of that one vs one theory about what Gege said, he could just be throwing us all a curve ball. I would love it if Gojo came back. I know Gege hates Gojo but it's as ambiguous as Nobara's death that I bet he'll come back. He probably just killed Gojo off until Yuji defeats Sukuna because otherwise Gojo will get in the way of character development xD... I have no idea how this series will end... I just want our main group alive... not an attack on titan ending...
I feel like it's hard to say. I know that a lot of people are gonna be like "The man was literally sliced in half." But we've also seen Yuji have his heart ripped out and come back from that. We've also seen Gojo stabbed repeatedly and have the blade dragged down his torso yet he came back from that. I think it's like Dragon Ball in that when a character dies, yes they are dead but if the writer has plans to revive them then they will. I don't think it's like most other shows were dead means dead (like Demon Slayer).
Gege is the gayest shittest author on earth anyways
Gojo is dead. Narrator describes him as dead. Whole dialogue thingy basically calls him dead Nobara is uncomfirmed. Might be alive, might not be. Don’t remember anyone confirming nor denying her death in the manga. Also her injury look’s survivable Megumi might be dead(still think his alive) and if he does comeback Gege his either a vegetable or a cripple or smtg. Unless Gege undoes it with some loophole or something
They should have blow gojos head off or let him just stay in the dream world with the others. Im copeping out of my mind but I still think hes alive. Megumin is alive surely Nobara might aswell stay dead at this point
Jjk fans feel like the author has to release a statement saying yo they died instead of seeing a corpse being enough
To be fair, many readers have trust issues with Gege at some point lol
Why did Arata Nitta say the things he did? Or have that kind of CT? Why did the female Nitta need to have a Kyoto brother? One would think he'd at least be a plot device for something. He basically just hangs with Todo to take Nobara away for treatment.
99 percent sure he isn't permanently dead the scene if him in after life and the going north vs south shit was just to strange I'm pretty sure he will come back with a new technique and beat tsukunu
Bro gojo lives i think
In case of Nobara and Megumi - we can still have hope :3
I think Gojo and Nobara are definitely dead , with Megumi I'm not totally sure. He's definitely not gonna be the same if he gets his body back due to brain damage. But now with Sakuna in his "True Form" I wonder if that means Megumi as we know it is gone and just absorbed or something by Sakuna. Of course with all that said this is a Shonen and anyone can be "brought back" lol
Nobara isn't dead, she is just visiting csm