Power scaling is a tricky thing in anime that Jujutsu Kaisenwhen characters like the overwhelmed Satoru Gojo break all the rules. First, Jujutsu Kaisen fans took it for granted that Satoru is the strongest wizard in the world, because the characters themselves said so. Satoru reinforced that performance with his easy defeat of Jogo's Domain Expansion in Season 1. In the following season, it took everything Mahito and his friends had to defeat Satoru. Still, Satoru was indeed taken down, leaving Yuji Itadori alone as the Culling Games loomed.
The first question on anime fans is if and how Yuji will cope in the absence of his famously powerful sorcerer mentor. Yuji has never been this lonely, and he even has former hero Yuta Okkotsu chasing him as Kenjaku's sinister plans unfold. Despite all that, Jujutsu Kaisen Fans believe that Yuji will not only manage without Satoru, but will actually grow into Satoru's role and even surpass it. Because of what Jujutsu Kaisen fans have seen in the anime thus far, not to mention the typical shonen power scaling rules, Yuji is set to fill Satoru's shoes and make the world forget Satoru was ever #1.
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Yuji Itadori is the strongest and only wizard and a half in the anime
Yuji's Jujutsu power is growing at a frightening rate
Even in Jujutsu Kaisen Anime alone, viewers have seen plenty of evidence that Yuji Itadori will eventually eclipse Satoru Gojo as the best wizard. On the one hand, Yuji cannot beat Satoru at his own game, since infinity is by definition impossible to overcome. Yuji won't wield his own infinity-based power or become OP the way Satoru is, but he doesn't need to. It helps how writer Gege Akutami himself doesn't like Satoru's unfair, plot-twisting power and was clearly eager to make way for Yuji to take the #1 spot after Satoru's capture in Shibuya. Yuji cannot surpass Satoru as a 1:1 copy of him, but Yuji was able to surpass Satoru by combining all of his other – often unique – assets.
Yuji may be more of a “normal” wizard than Satoru Gojo is, but he's still not quite an ordinary wizard thanks to Ryomen Sukuna's presence within him. Yuji and Sukuna's relationship has been contentious and bloody since its inception, but there's no denying how Sukuna's presence inside Yuji gave him some terrifying and effective advantages. Regardless of Sukuna's brutality and uncooperative nature, his status as the King of Curses makes him Yuji's secret weapon. It may be a reason why Satoru himself admitted that Yuji can surpass him, combined with Yuji's own remarkable potential. It's no guarantee, as such comments aren't always perfect prophecies in anime, but it's enough to get the conversation started.
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In addition to Sukuna's titanic power, Yuji also has the gift of immense physical strength which is further enhanced with his curse energy. That way, Yuji can at least catch up to Satoru's own martial arts, and being only 15 years old, Yuji has plenty of time to continue training and surpass Satoru in that arena. It also helps how Yuji has become a melting pot of curse techniques and powers. These range from the Black Flash he learned from Aoi Todo to blood manipulation, his self-healing via a Reverse Curse Technique, and the Shrine, among others.
When combined, these powers not only allow Yuji to catch up with or even eclipse Satoru in the post-Shibuya era, it establishes Yuji's habit of growing. Much more than Satoru Gojo or even his classmates at school, Yuji has the unparalleled ability to observe, learn and apply almost any technique. These abilities and traits make Yuji remarkably flexible, which in turn makes it challenging for even the toughest cursers or wizards to find a counter to Yuji's battle strategy. Mahito and his other curses knew what to do as they aimed to capture Satoru, but they could do no such thing to Yuji.
Jujutsu KaisenThe main character gets stronger and expands his arsenal with each fight, and that's obviously what Satoru meant when he sang the praises of Yuji's endless potential. It's the kind of infinity that could one day put Satoru's own to shame, and it's exactly the kind of infinity that fans can expect from any Scanian protagonist.
Satoru Gojo and other support heroes are meant to be outclassed
Satoru is just setting the bar for the next generation to clear
On a more meta level, it's more likely than ever that Yuji will indeed be stronger than Satoru by Jujutsu Kaisenfinal. Yuji is at least on track to become the world's #1 wizard in Satoru's absence, making Yuji stronger than Satoru by default. If Satoru is imprisoned or dead, his infinite power means nothing. When it comes to outclassing Satoru's infinity power directly, it is the best and possibly only way to surpass Satoru's strength. But there's more to a powerful wizard than the sheer scope of the OP nature of special cursed techniques.
The meta comparisons between Yuji and Satoru strongly signal Yuji's success in becoming top dog one day, regardless of whether Satoru lives or dies in Jujutsu Kaisens anime. This is hardly the first shonen anime to deal with power levels, not only according to in-universe physics, but also according to storytelling standards. Anime that Jujutsu Kaisen and its kin mix forces in the universe and the needs of an inspiring story, which is indeed where the famous “power of friendship” comes from. Yuji benefits more from the power of friendship than Satoru does, as Aoi Todo can attest, but there's still more to it. There's also the story of the relatable student who eventually surpasses the powerful but stale mentor.
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In many ways, the protagonist Yuji has already outdone Satoru when all factors are weighed in, and Yuji can and should definitely go even further. Like Naruto Uzumaki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Deku and Tanjiro Kamado, Yuji Itadori has powers of action. The story itself wants Yuji to grow stronger over time until he has made his mentors obsolete. In contrast, both villains and mentors are stale and start with immense power that only challenges the hero to keep growing. Satoru Gojo fills that role and is vastly superior to Yuji at first but also fails to grow significantly.
After a point, the likes of Satoru Gojo are just a bar to the hero, and they often want it that way. Gojo is strong so Yuji knows how to get even stronger, and that's how Shonen should be — otherwise the hero's growth arc feels like an exercise in futility. Despite his many heartbreaking moments and losses, however, there is nothing meaningless about how far Yuji has come and how much further he can still go.
Jujutsu Kaisen
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October 3, 2020
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TBS, MBS, CBC, Tulip Television, BSN, tys, NBC, HBC, RKK, i-Television, SBS, IBC, BSS, MRO, OBS, TUF, RSK, TUY, tbc, RKB, SBC, KUTV, RBC, UTY, RCC, MRT, atv, MBC
- Directors
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Ryohei Takeshita, Masataka Akai, Chie Nishizawa, Daisuke Tsukushi, Tomomi Kamiya, Kakushi Ifuku, Ken Takahashi
- Author
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Hiroshi Seko
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Yuichi Nakamura
Satoru Gojo
