#JJK 249 Spoilers

[gojonanami]

honestly gonna cry at how fucking proud gojo would be of his students right now — he would be so proud of yuta and yuji for facing Sukuna

[tojis-worm]

“yuuji will use his new ability to rip sukuna’s soul from megumi’s body”

SO START BY SAVING ME ITADORI

[frost-felon]

249 is not good, and I don't even need to see the translated dialogue to know that. I literally mentioned Hana briefly in my meta as a character who'd likely had her narrative purpose fulfilled (and thus, would be tossed to the wayside), but good fucking Lord. This isn't even a good chapter for Yuta, since his guilt is unearned (in the sense that he literally did not do anything wrong with the plan on Kenjaku), and he's taking over other characters' roles needlessly. Nevermind that we STILL don't know where Maki is...eughghghghgh. Gege is NOT cooking, he is burning the house down. There were way better ways to handle a Yuta & Yuji team-up...and we're missing proper foreshadowing for a certain development in this chapter.

[ryanthel0ser]

Sukuna just can't give Yuji ANYTHING huh

[bubblewhale]

The fact that Yuji is a support character in his own manga and Sukuna mocks him for it

[daggryet]

TEEHEE MY BOY !

[frost-felon]

The other characters SHOULD matter. They SHOULD be thematically-resonant and provide amplification of stakes. But they keep dying in bullshit ways, and lining up one-by-one, like you gotta wait your turn to fight Sukuna, the raid boss.

It cheapens the fights, the characters, and distracts from the core conflict. The chapter quality rises whenever Sukuna is forced to acknowledge Yuji's existence, and whenever Yuji is shown interacting with Sukuna in any way.

Every passing chapter confirms to me that the main conflict is now only between Yuuji and Sukuna. That's where the emotional stakes are. Everyone else is just window dressing and there to pad time. So can we move Yuuta out of the way already and concentrate on what's important?

[joestarbuckss]

I am so unwell after the new leaks. Literally everything Yuuta does is for love. He loved Rika in the most pure way and I will never be okay.

Yuuta’s domain expansion is revealed and shocker, he named it Pure Love *slamming my head against the wall*

(if you’ll recall this scene in jjk0 ⬇️ I’m sobbing)

Of course he would dedicate his domain to the love of his life. Not only that, but inside his domain we see ribbons 🪢

The symbolism behind these type of knots has me in tears 😭❤️‍🩹

Marriage and funerals??? He is bound to her in every form. She was his wife and he honors her in everything he does.

Yuuta literally turned his domain into a memorial for Rika I’m so sick. He is the definition of Pure Love! Okkotsu Yuuta the man that you are 😩💞

*TRUST* Yuuta will defeat Sukuna with the power of love 🫶🏼

[cowleyes]

fake yearners when the real lover boys come at them

[defnotkanyewest]

JJK 249 LEAKS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!

Yuta creating a domain with the help of Rika

[notsolocal-ghost]

Gege, stop drawing Sukuna with such sexy smirks on his face, my obsession is already excessive and you are making it worse...

Just look at that angle of his face, his eyes, his hair just UGH. Why does this asshole have to look so damn hot.

[gojonanami]

yuta’s DE being called “true and mutual love” is truly the culmination of “no bitches”

[smorpher]

I guess this is the answer to Toji's question way back when

If he had killed Suguru

The curses he ingested would have been released

[frost-felon]

I've seen people debate over whether Yuji has been "out of focus" or not. And it's like...yes and no. He's been IN a lot of scenes, and not quite sidelined (Maki found dead in a ditch), but as with many characters, he ends up standing around. Doing nothing until a specific scene requires him. And unfortunately, we haven't gotten much perspective on his mentality/inner thoughts, as of late. He hasn't exactly been replaced as the protagonist (recent official comments on the "old and new protagonists" aside...), but a lot of JJK's recent chapters have been centered on other characters. That's fine, but when it happens so often, Yuji has to fight to get narrative attention. I consider him to be the most interesting part of Jujutsu Kaisen, so this is personally disappointing to me, but it's also just narratively dissatisfying.

Combine that with the single-file lineup of combatants against Sukuna, and JJK becomes stifled.

[gojosbf]

[mahaguro]

Sukuna’s potential weakness(?), ideals and irritation with Yuji

I find Sukuna’s monologue special, as it is rare that we ever get to see what he’s thinking.

I think Gege is beginning to reveal how Jujutsu High will win against Sukuna. If not with solely strength, then certainly by extension of their ideals.

What I believe we got is one of Sukuna’s weaknesses being that he’s lacking in great ideals.

As Sukuna has said a number of times, he lives by default of his nature and nothing more. He eats when he wants to, plays whenever he wants, so on and so forth. But that’s it. Nothing more.

^This quote was initially said during Kashimo’s final moments.

Kashimo was the first to question Sukuna on his ideals with “Doesn’t that get old?”

And I think it actually does, whether or not Sukuna wants to admit that. That in of itself could be his fatal flaw. To simply chase after the thrill of battle with the occasional amusing opponent (i.e. Gojo Satoru, Higuruma) would naturally become boring in the long run especially if the opportunity is far and few between.

He quite literally had Kenjaku divide his soul into several cursed objects (20 fingers), jumping 1,000 years into the future to experience a different era of sorcerers. He’s a freak fr 😭

Anyways, Sukuna’s monologue also reveals something else. It shows that Sukuna’s ideals pale in comparison to Yuji’s who will stop at nothing to rid the world of the calamity known as Sukuna.

In shonen fashion, Yuji’s purpose is selfless and for the greater good.

^Here, Sukuna is describing a clear distinction of what separates Heian era sorcerers from the ones of today. The sorcerers he was up against had ideals that were boastful and built on pride. They wanted to see how their individual strength faired against the King of Curses.

This was alluded to in Chapter 3 regarding sorcerers from the Golden Age.

“…Sorcerers had sharpened their skills against him…”

In other words, they fought for themselves. Similar to Sukuna, it was for self satisfaction and nothing more. They were weaker to him in more ways than strength and it showed in their convictions.

Yuji is weaker than Sukuna, but where where his strength matches the King of Curses is through sheer will and ideals. Unlike those he mowed down in the Heian era, Yuji devotion is unwavering.

It goes without saying and Nobara said it best:

If it’s just pain, Yuji will never stop.

That is what irritates the living out hell out of Sukuna. And having once inhabiting the same body, he’s fully aware of this fact.