#jujutsu kaisen chapter 271

[envy-of-the-apple]

The King of Curses Reverses the Hourglass

"Sukuna! Who woulda thought I'd see you here?" The curse sneers.

"Well well. What's this, our second conversation?"

He doesn't remember this curse's name. It doesn't matter. This curse was a small fry that the brat was able to take out. ...the same brat that defeated him.

"My technique messes with the souls after all." The curse explains. "Consider this a vestige. Welcome to the pathway souls walk on their way down the cycle."

The curse shuffles his position. "I always meant to ask you....you were lying weren't you? To yourself and to others."

"You weren't living according to your true stature. No, you wanted revenge. Revenge against those who resented and persecuted that cursed unwanted little wretch."

Sukuna shrugs, never a liar. There's no point to it now. Death is equal to all, regardless of strength.

"What's the difference?" He says, "Living the only way I knew how... that's how I chose to go on."

He stops himself. And Sukuna thinks of pink hair. Too many scars on a youthful face. So much death. So much righteous anger. And yet...

You are me.

"Actually...no." Sukuna muses. "I did have different paths to walk. Two, to be precise."

To live for yourself. Eat when necessary. That was how he lived for thousands of years. No human was boring, but Sukuna never equated that to having value. Even as a human, he lived as a proper curse.

But he was never truly a curse. Beneath it all, he was still human. And another human had seen that, and still reached out.

You are me.

In the battle of ideologies, he had lost. Hate only ever got him so far. In the end, he was able to experience love after all.

"Should there be a next time..." Sukuna thinks. "Perhaps it would be nice to walk a different path."

He expects the curse in front of him to throw a tantrum, much like how all curses are so single-minded. Instead, the curse giggles, rising to his feet.

"Really? Are you sure you're gonna be able to stick to that different path?"

Sukuna stares, unimpressed. The curse just shrugs.

"I'm just saying. You lived as a curse all your life. How could you just turn your being like that, if such a thing did exist?"

"Such a thing?" Sukuna echoes.

The curse stretches his arms high in the air. "Soul. Time. Now that I'm here, those two things aren't much different."

"Ah, you've grown since your defeat, haven't you?" Sukuna should've learned his name after all.

"I'll never stop despising Itadori Yuji. It's my nature, after all. But I'm far more interested in my wager with you." The curse grins in the way a curse only can.

"Let's see which one is a better way of living: as a curse or as a human."

alternate title: "I used to be the king of curses but now i want to live a peaceful life and avoid the death flags but the six eyes is suddenly proposing to me!?"

[straycatreblogs]

My braincell comforting my other braincell

its gonna be ok 👍

[cinnamorollcrybaby]

ending so ass it made me go and actually do my homework instead of procrastinating on twitter and tumblr

[littleholmes]

They’re alright, Gojo. They’re safe, Nanami. You can both rest easy now.

[izuqi]

satoru gojo had love and dreams.

you were his love and his dreams.

he dreamt of a future of leaving the jujutsu world, and living a life of comfort and happiness with you. start a family too, he wanted to know what yours and his genes would look like combined. beautiful, probably.

so, when satoru gojo realized he was going to die, cut open by ryomen sukuna, his last thoughts were you. he thought of you, how you would feel about his death, how he wishes he could just go back home and get scolded by you for being reckless and getting himself hurt, see your gorgeous smile one more time, getting to hear your voice one last time before his imminent death, he should've hugged you tighter this morning, gave you one more kiss before he left.

but now, he can't do any of that.

maybe in another life he will start a family with the woman of his dreams.

[honeycreammilkshake]

say what you want about this final chapter but i'm taking it as confirmation that yuuji was the one who finally taught sukuna about love.

this whole time sukuna has been trapped by his own thinking, his unshaken belief, that he was just as much a curse as someone like mahito.

but it's very telling that right after we see yuuji's face, his words that everything will end up alright, that sukuna appears. and more than that, he looks far more at peace than i would have expected him to be after losing.

yuuji is the only one to have treated him like a person, to open up with him, to show him true kindness and empathy. and unlike everyone else who saw sukuna as nothing but a monster, yuuji said sukuna could have a new start. that it was only a matter of chance that sukuna was the monster in all this.

yuuji humanized sukuna. he saw something inside the king of curses that nobody else could understand. yuuji saw himself in this monster, that they could have been two of a kind.

and it really did get to sukuna. not only did he fully acknowledge yuuji by calling him by his full name and not just "brat" but he also referred to himself as a "curse" as he died in yuuji's hands.

he chose death because he saw himself as only inhuman, but now in the afterlife he's reflected on yuuji's words. he finally realized that he has two paths he can go on, he has a choice. and yuuji was the one to give it to him.

and i think this change in heart is all owed to yuuji, who cradled sukuna even in his final moments and awoke that understanding inside sukuna. because yuuji out of everyone was the most sincere and understanding of sukuna, perhaps the only one who ever showed him real love. and in death, i think it comforted sukuna. he's gone "soft" and he's accepted it, because yuuji was the one who impacted him the most, who finally broke down sukuna's philosophy. (which is ironic considering how sukuna threatened to break down yuuji's). out of all the people who thought they would teach sukuna love, yuuji was the only who really could and really did.

this chapter was by no means fully satisfactory to me, but it's not what i fully expected and more than i could have hoped for, given the direction i feared we were going in.

sukuna's character finally being able to show that growth, learning what love is from yuuji, being able to accept everything because of yuuji's warmth even at the end... we won. yuuji really did teach sukuna how to love, and it started with making sukuna realize that he was capable of such a thing, that fulfillment was what he needed after all.

and just maybe this isn't the last we see of the both of them. i still have this crazy hope that their story isn't fully over yet. and even if it fully is, than it's far more of a happy (and hopeful) ending that i could have imagined.

[starlitscales]

The End. 271.

[mrs-gojo-satoru]

Also the fact that once again nobody cried over Satoru Gojo and instead fucking BLAMED him for everything. Also for it to be the last chapter and still no mention of how sad they are he’s gone. Brotha be so for real with me right now. I’m in pain I hate this. I hate that nobody cares. I hate that they aren’t crying. I hate that we didn’t get a funeral for him. I hate that they didn’t even mention him after Yutas body.

[diaryfilms]

this has truly been our jujutsu kaisen 🥹💗

[mydark-impulse]

These panels mean so much more to me now.

Gojo saying he has love and dreams too. He’s a human as well, he doesn’t want everyone to forget him and leave him behind. Then Sukuna, of ALL ppl, commending his talents and vowing to remember him as a formidable opponent allowing Gojo to die with a smile. The others may not have mourned him but Sukuna is ironically the one to ease his fears. And that’s enough for Gojo.

“Thank you, Sukuna” we all say in unison 🙏🏼 Gege was the real opp all along.

[drivngonceagain]

GONE, GONE/ THANK YOU

yuuji sketch, background made by my game dev student friend lou :-)

[fairylwt]

petition to hold a funeral for gojo and nanami. interact to sign

[littleholmes]

No, that’s wrong…I could’ve chosen how to live….If there’s a next time, maybe I’ll change how I live.

Sukuna realizing his fear and his errors and considering doing things differently in the next life…🥹

[deedeeznoothere]

‼️ JJK FINALE MAJOR SPOILERS‼️

Do NOT click keep reading if you don’t want spoilers for the Jujutsu Kaisen manga ending.

The end is never the end is never the end ahh ending 😭

WELCOME BACK MY GLORIOUS KING 🗣️🔥 I NEVER DOUBTED YOU

Real talk can someone translate this? I’m confused lol this looks like the end of the chapter.

[raamitsu]

[COMPLETE] BREAKING NEWS REGARDING THE END OF JUJUTSU KAISEN SERIALIZATION ⭐

FINAL CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENT RELEASE FROM JJK OFFICIAL TWITTER ACCOUNT.

Translation in short: On Monday, September 30th (JST), Jujutsu Kaisen will reach its conclusion in Chapter 271. The final chapter will be published on Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine Issue #44.

SPECIAL PV TO COMMEMORATE THE RELEASE OF JUJUTSU KAISEN FINALIZED SERIALIZATION IN FIVE CHAPTERS.

video cut by soukatsu_ on twitter.

COMMENTARY FROM GEGE AKUTAMI REGARDING THE SOON-TO-END JUJUTSU KAISEN.

both pictures obtained from soukatsu_ on twitter.

[idiotgojo]

Clocked all the haters i fear 😭