Yuji Is Still the Main Character...Right?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2023
- Discussing Yuji's diminishing role as JJK's main character and whether he's still a good protagonist.
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How would you rate Yuji as an MC? What is his role in the end of JJK?
Yuji is the main character but Gojo is that outstanding character that builds up Yuji as the underdog character that will rise do to Gojo hype
@@tinodollas4146if Gege made him the mastermind how do you feel?
@@RACH90810 agreed
Gege takes a lot of inspiration from the HunterXHunter series. That series has several "main characters" and so does JJK. It's the story of the world and not necessarily just the story of Yuji.
We don't see him getting the spotlight or even show himself much so
I like this approach in JJK ngl. Reminds of HxH where even when Gon is present he doesn't feel like the main character all the time, or the world of HxH doesn't revolve around him.
Yeah makes it feel more real to me bc we see other characters develop more then MC
Yes that's a very good example and important in any story building side characters to then build plot and mc characters higher
I think that’s what gege is always been doing. Remember Yuta was technically the first protagonist ever in jujutsu
Didn’t watch hxh but does gon get beat up the whole story and get outshined by everyone else?
@@loni1771 without spoiling in detail, yes he isn't an overpowered MC. He is strong and he gets stronger as the show goes on, but he gets beaten many times.
I think it is easier to see JJK as a plot driven story rather than a character driven one. Yuji is like Lucy in Fairy Tail, we start the story in their perspective but they don't ALWAYS get center stage.
I like that too but gege is takin it too far man😭
You mean NEVER get the center stage?
I thought Natsu was the protagonist.
@@otakuboy1570 Lucy introduced the entire world to us, she narrated the story, she had the most screen time in the first couple episodes. I said we started the story in Lucy's perspective.
And no, Natsu is not the protagonist. Fairy Tail is.
STOP COPING
I think the problem with Yuji is he's one of those MCs that doesn't actually have solid ties that can be played off of. His friends from high school are just mob characters and he never mentions his grandfather at all after the first arc. We don't even know much about what their relationship was like which is a bit weird since Yuji was raised by him. He plays off of Megumi and Nobara but we don't get a lot of them interacting or building strong bonds from the reader's perspective.
Meanwhile Gojo's story is built off of his relationship to Geto. Megumi's is built off of his relationship to Gojo, his dad, and his sister. And even Yuta has a strong bond with Gojo, his classmates, and Rika.
This makes Yuji very difficult to write which is probably why the Junpei arc happens because otherwise he has no real stakes in the story. So to me he's just kind of a walking plot device and a lot of times it feels like he's just there because Sukuna can be pulled out as a card to build tension. I hope something is done but it kind of feels too late in the story for that to happen.
Yuuji is pretty much Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden imo 😂.
Other main protagonist like Dante, Kratos and even Bayonetta were developped beautifully throughout their franchise. But not Ryu tho, he's still the stoic silent ninja who just wanna do his job, nothing else and just so happens to get the worst 3rd part of his trilogy
@@ShatteredGlass916 I always saw Ryu as the Batman to Dante’s Superman but that works too
"I think the problem with Yuji is he's one of those MCs that doesn't actually have solid ties that can be played off of"
That's wrong. He has ties to Choso and Kenjaku, the main villain of the series. And regardless of the outcome of the fight, there's still one Sukuna finger left.
@@Naruxos07 and yet we barely get any development with him, Kenjaku, Choso and other Cursed Paintings (is that what they called? Sorry, forgot their name).
We do know that Kenjaku "possesed" Ryuji's mom and involved in his birth (somehow). We know that Ryuji isn't the only experiments like Choso. And that's about it really . . . .
I think there’s just so much we don’t know about Yuji and his family history that it’s revelation could turn the whole thing around (or signal that things are changing), but now before that happens they’re focusing on developing the other characters REALLY hard first to make the transformation extra powerful
I love this topic considering yuji has a mindset of being a COG in a machine …it goes hand and hand with his position in the story,but now that the purpose he was given has been taken away (Sakuna leaving his body) I feel like yuji will develop the mindset of “CREATING HIS OWN PURPOSE “ or “be more selfish” which is another big theme in the story ,maybe I’m digging to deep
This was EXACTLY what I was about to say
we're in the final segments nothing gege can do now will make yuji important unless he just gives him an asspull
@@SmolGriffith this is false considering yuji literally develops most when he is literally in the middle of fights,this has happened in almost every fight yuji has been in …..considering he has 2 fights in the story left (1 giant fight) then it’s plenty of time for gege to give yuji a reasonable way to establish relevance in the story,ur ignorant if u honestly think gege would make the main protagonist a side character 😭😭💀💀💀
@@vaycodm2341 when was the last time he won a fight on his own? yes i do because the last arc has been dragged out and mid yuji has done nothing since mahito
@@SmolGriffith explain to me wtf yuji not winning a fight on his own has to do with him developing throughout a fight,what is ur argument here…..🤔im a little confused on ur point cuz it genuinely makes 0 sense
i don't like the way yuji gets over shadowed by other characters. occasionally is fine kind of like tanjro or isagi yoichi who occasionally gets overshadowed by other characters but yuji gets overshadowed through most of the story.
The author of jjk is a 🤡 so disappointed, mc that are useless what a 🤡
Yea I agree. Then again I believe that’s Gege’s purpose in a way. You can’t overshadow your main character that hard unintentionally so I’m just trusting he will do something big with Yuji in the future.
@@remigal899while that may be Gege’s purpose. Can’t help but feel like whatever is introduced with Yuji that’s important enough to get him some agency back in the story would be an asspull. Like keeping a cheat code in your pocket. At the very least I can hardly imagine it feeling “earned” per say.
@@anthonygomez3915 it’s pretty far away from happening and ur alr this biased!? Yuji hasn’t even started his “overpowered mc” phase, we barely even have hints on his ct and NOTHING on his de. Feels like You’ve already decided you won’t be happy with his power amp regardless of what it is
@@masonfason8925 my opinion comes from how Gege went about sidelining Yuji. Almost every shonen does something where other characters get more shine over the mc during some arcs but the mc usually still have some type of agency where their choices still affect the world around them. What I was trying to convey was that Yuji has gotten sidelined and made irrelevant so hard to the point that I don’t really see how Yuji can get a power amp that is big enough to make him relevant again without a massive lore dump all at once. And using your own words, there has been very little shown or explained about Yuji’s cursed technique up to this point. That’s why I can’t see how he can get this big power amp without all of that info being poured on us at once. Also, my opinion also has some to do with the rumors that the manga’s ending is not too far away. If Gege can manage to pull it off then i will happily accept it. I just don’t see any reason to put blind in faith in it though. If the way Gege has written things for Yuji is satisfactory for you so far then great👍.
Gojo vs Sakuna was teased since the beginning so it's been coming for a while, but I always thought the final battle would be Yuji vs Sakuna after Gojo dies somehow.
The fight can also seen as a tuition for Yuji.
That makes sense, since this is a shonen and shonens have a troupe where the MC ends up becoming the strongest in his verse in whatever magic thing they have (hokage, pirate king, wizard king),in Yuji's case the strongest Sorcerer. And how does one become the strongest sorcerer? By beating the ultimate sorcerer that ever lived, Sukuna.
Nah that would be boring and will never happen. JJK isn’t your typical Shonen
I think yuji's enlightenment which is gonna be very different from the awakenings in the manga probably will play a humongous part in the climax of the story.which has a very good chance in contradicting every ideology we have come across in the series.
@@shepardcommander5174 what would be boring is if Gojo did beat Sukuna, there's no thematic weight to it just simply the strongest versus the strongest, it would be completely unsatisfactory.
I think Yuji is for sure still the MC but Gojo or Megumi can be interchangeable at times and Gege makes them feel like the MC sometimes like currently but have no clue exactly what Yuji is gonna do when it comes to Kenjaku or Sukuna
Gojo doesn't have that much screentime though. Like he's barely present in any of the action and has been absent in the manga longer than he has been present. Like the two longest arcs happen without him even being there. Yuji is always present in every arc in one way or another except for the Gojo past arc
@@ryanmacharika3946 "Yuji is always present in every arc in one way or another" that's kind of true but also kind of a lie. for the majority of the Culling Arc, Yuji has only really appear at the start and near the current/end of it. the majority of the arc has been about the other characters fighting the culling players, which is fine but that's still a big absence. the other problem is that many of those fights Yuji could have assisted in or at least witnessed to learn more
@@connorradcliffe1769 The culling arc i think is similar to the chunin exam in Naruto. its a chance to get to know all the other character in depth that will come to be useful in the final battles. Like Maki gets to understand her powers, we see Yuuta using more his powers, Hakari and his domain, Kashimo is introduced plus a lot more things. No one was the one main character during this arc as they were all over the place
@@ryanmacharika3946 yep, I get and understand that, but it just puts a bit of a spotlight on Yuji and what he can do. now I could be wrong but apart from being strong and punching things with some cursed energy, does he have any real technique's or abiltiy's other then black flash? he'll probably have something in the future but that's basically like Naruto running around only able to use rasengan and nothing else
@@Gamfluentshibuya is still in another level, i get that gojo vs sukuna is the greatest fight (for me too) but its not a entire arc with many plots
Tbh the most important character in Jjk is kenjaku yea he’s the “ villain “ but he literally controls and moves the story
Basically an Aizen 😂
After all Aizen made Ichigo
@@semekiizuioand kenjaku made yuji
All yuji needs is his "everything but the rain" chapters to make him a great MC. There's a lot of plot in WHO yuji even is
Here is what I think Gojo would have been killed in this plot against sukuna but thanks to Yuji he saves the day. I think the last finger of sukuna gojo has is about playing a part in the climax of gojo vs sukuna. Yuji has a huge role to play. And megumi is alive so we know that something is about happening.
@@terenceawaraka3570 Thats interesting and I always forget about the last finger. Gojos so strong that I wouldn't be surprised if he's taken out the story again but he also managers to separate megumi and sukuna (we have 0 chance of beating him in that body without gojo)
@@Malik19RencherHe's Kenjaku' Son , that's who he is lol.
@@k4mpferMVP lol yeah but he's also "from that time" his backstory and power up gonna hit hard
...mhm everything but your parents l think you mean ,
Followed up closely by the jujutsu itself
I feel like Gege is just kinda chilling and saving Yuji for a rainy day. He has stated that it’s really hard for him to wright Yuji, so I’m assuming he just hasn’t really made Yuji someone that can truly be himself yet. I feel like everything that’s going on right now is just setup for Yuji to take back the story with somewhat “selfish” ambitions. Eventually I do believe he will become one of the strongest (if not THE strongest), but until Gege can formulate an opportunity for Yuji to shine, he can only set it up. That being said Jjk, is extremely non-traditional of an shonen, so we can only wait and see what happens. Regardless, we only know one thing: Yuji is going to continue to feel a lot of pain in his future…
I have the exact same gripe with Yuji's role in the story. It feels unstable. It can be well played, but it falls short because it is inconsistent with other characters as well. As in, lots of them aren't fleshed out even when taking attention away from the MC. It simply is not explored properly.
well there is nothing to explore, they are cookie cutter, just cardboard cut outs of characters that people think about when discussing anime. Gojo and his crew feel like actual humans beings in an ugly world
Imagine All Might stuck around for the whole series, winning every major fight and sidelined Midoriya at every opportunity. Would you still consider Midoriya the MC?
different dynamic and super different from this one so doesnt really compare, also a think anime fans dont get is the difference between a side character and the main cast, as in multiple characters would be considered the main characters, and jjk works like that where yuji may be put to the side while megumi does something himself or gojo has some development instead of staying two dimensional, yuji still is the main character and a focal point of the plot, less focus in the manga doesnt mean yuji wont be a key player in other parts or wont have development, i get the point but its still uninformed on anything in the manga (which i admit might be gojo central right now but its the mans last big boom so let him cook) and shows that you barely focus on what you watch, granted im likely dumber but you need some info bro please watch something other than anime
Idk tho tbh all might and gojo kinda have similar story developments but different at the same time.
1. All might won his fight but lost his power
2. Gojo got sealed forcing characters to development for over 100 chapters (might die due to fighting Sukana)
3. All might just entered the fight in my hero like gojo did (all might could die aswell)
They both are getting the goodbye hero story troupe so far. But I am not the author so I'm just pointing out similarities
Were in the last ark of jjk bro, yuji aint ever gonna be the mc again
@@monke9386yeah you completely missed the point, Yuji is by definition forgotten by his creator end of discussion
@@hype5456no the fuck he isnt, you when gojo is the stronger ;0
The writer realized that Gojo is more popular so he switched the MC mid way. JK but still funny
You’re not wrong
@@ShonenOujiGo/Jo lost and Wuji is the goat
Yuuji's main problem is that sometimes he doesn't have a clear 'wants' and the fact that every single parts of JJK didn't favor him didn't help at all.
One of my favorite things about JJK is that it has like 5 "Main Character" characters lol: Yuji, Yuta, Gojo, Megumi, & Maki. Any of them could carry a whole series so having them all together is just a net positive IMO.
I disagree on maki and yuta. They both have been fully explored in the manga. They also have set out and achieve their goals at the beginning of the series, yuta has resolved rika and maki and resolved zenin clan. Yuji has a lot to be explored with since he is a self admitted blank slate, megumi has basically been finished too although before the sukuna situation he still had a lot more to be explored, his potential, domain, character etc. Gojo is basically done too, but out of all the characters you mentioned gojo is the only active one.
Assuming all the characters survived (they wont) gojo is the only one of could theoretically see doing something. Yuji maybe as well, maki, megumin and yuta are too passive in how they act, especially yuta. You can even see this I their actions throughout the series.
Sorry but gojo stole the show at least for me. I’m only interested in gojo and Yuji.
@@Bunny11344 I'm a manga reader so I'm speaking about beyond what we've seen anime wise. Just like how Hidden Inventory focused in on Gojo all the characters I named have parts of the story where they're the MC/Perspective character and they're all fire.
Like I think we went almost a year in the manga without seeing Yuji not too long ago.
@@YetiCoolBrother I also read the manga unfortunately I’m just a gojo simp🥸
Funny thing: all of them got a lot more development than yuji😭
If the author has to solve all the series problems with 1 op character then something is differently wrong
Why tho? Irl every team has its best player and they rely on them the rookie isn't expected to even get close to the ace
In JJK every one has their role. So no, Gojo cannot solve all problems
he doesnt though....? judging by how Gojo was literally sealed for half of the story
@@red.4712 And now he's back and gotta hard carry the whole sorcerer world. So yeah, nothing have changed.
@@idk4435 He’s obviously the only one who can fight Sukuna. I feel like this has always been set up as the case, no? But he was literally out of most of the story, so the idea that he’s just a tool to solve problems is stupid. Not to mention it’s entertaining right now because he and his opponent are both up against the wall, so it completely works.
I think it's fine for Yuji to sort of be a reactive character sometimes. I mean it makes it feel more like he's a student, still learning about the world of sorcerers, curse users and cursed spirits, and all that. His fight with Hanami is to me more about him and Todo holding the line (and doing a damn good job) against a special-grade until the staff can come in and handle things. But that's just one example. Gojo does kinda hog the spotlight when he's around because how could he not? He's the strongest sorcerer of the modern era and he's an educator.
i imagine gojo dies and yuji has to fight. personally i dont like it when the main character is side lined this hard. but to each their own
The anime legit feels like Yuji is irrelevant. S1? Mostly Yuji, JJK0? 100% Gojo. S2? 100% gojo so far
thats pretty simple amd great video bro! 👍 keep going
The original plan was for Yuji to die off early in the series. He literally wasn’t supposed to be the main character. And, he still doesn’t feel like the main character.
Personally the main character is Gojo, the main story just takes place in the fallout and aftermath.
I thought about this after the maki come up scene with her clan, it felt like the show as so many main characters, so who is it?
Yuji? Yuta? Maki? Megumi? In fact it’s none of them, and I think Yuji really understands this in his fight with Mahito in the shibuya arc where he has his whole “I’m not the hero, I have a job to do just like everyone else” speech.
Basically everything you expect to happen in your typical shonen story happens during the Hidden Inventory Arc, except one key difference: they failed. This failure sparks literally everything that happens in the current time period of Jujutsu Kaisen.
It’s honestly brilliantly done IMO.
Sorry if you said all this in the video, I watched for five seconds and then left this comment lmao. I love your stuff.
Its not brilliantly done its just different and people who is fan think its good. Any writing where there is not one main character is bad writing
@@isaiya6799 just said the main character is gojo
@@isaiya6799 "Any writing where there is not one main character is bad writing"
HxH, FMA, LotR, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and soooooooooo many other medias that has multiple main characters:
@@isaiya6799 Ensembles are a thing and are very VERY popular. The need for a main character or pushing a particular person as main character to the detriiment of the story has destroyed many a series.
Look at DB.
It only became what it is when Toriyama realized that the series sucks when goku is the lead and made Z into an ensemble fighting/adventure series.
@@isaiya6799 you clearly dont read enough books
Honestly I like Yuji the way he is just because he's the mc doesn't entail that he's going to be a saviour
That's what I think too
thats the point of MC tho, whats the point if ur MC is the same as side characters
Slight problem is yuji is going to save the day
@@fahmidesu718 Thats not the point of an MC. Yuji is the MC because we get introduced to the world of JJK through Yuji and his experience. That gives him enough reason to be an MC without having the story revolve around him and making the world feel real. Its honestly fresh and not predictable.
@@koolerman4443 no, thats just your preference. MC still need quality that differs them from side characters bcuz thats literally the point, yuji has this too actually just weak compare to other series, most of the time his MCness got overwhelmed by gojo or yuta or even maki now. The thing is jjk never imply the story to be multiple MCs from the start, its yuji without a doubt. Even now that hes no longer host for sukuna just really make him unrelevant to the plot.
This is going to be a hot take but I'll say it anyways. I enjoyed the story so much more when Gojo was sealed, allowing characters to grow physically, mentally and psychologically. In Shibuya Arc, Yuji has some of the best moments of character writing in the story and have two of the arguably best fights in the series to date. Yuji's character has been deconstructing from the Cursed Womb Arc with every arc after that slowly changing his perspective on what it is to be a sorcerer and getting rid of his hero mindset.
Good things the sales don’t agree cauee Gojo was fire when he’s around
@@Axel-ye8tt and? lovecraft is now recognized as one of the most defining writer in horror category and he died poor. His work exploded in popularity years after his death, and it does not sell when he was alive. Many of webtoon popular story is a recycled concept of overpowered protagonists with cheat powers and it sells despite the story is garbage. Rent-a-girlfriend sold over 11 million copies in sales, and that's one of the worst romance manga to ever been produced.
Good number of sales doesn't always means good story, history has proven again and again many times readers don't always know a good story.
@@Username-cs1bi as long as the people like it, its good
ehe
Akutami took Gojo out of the history to develop other characters more.
Honestly, I forgot Yuji is the Main Character to Jujutsu Kaisen. 😂 I’m so caught up with Satoru.
Seriously. Every time he’s on screen, that’s all I look at. I don’t think I’m the only one.
Because youre a woman
Saaaameeeee he’s just so beautiful to look at 😭 that chiseled jawline the hair the eyes the personality he’s so perfect
@@Bunny11344 🤣 Your comment made my day!
it's like what yuji himself said, even before facing toji, he was the strongest, but what good is being strong when he can only save people who could be saved by others. Despite having all that power, his friends are dying and his plans failing, he has to pull of a clutch via methods other then hitting stuff. Kinda like spiderman not hitting his opponents but using what's around him and his iq to win, that's why yoji sucks ass relatively
I really don't understand why they prefer Yuta over Yuji as a protagonist. Yuta's character came full circle in the movie and ever since his reintroduction in the main story he is what he was made out to be: a formidable Jujutsu sorcerers just what Gojo imagined. About his character also Yuji is far more friendly than most of the series characters from the beginning. He's been through so much hardships and we all know he'll meet his end when the story concludes. Yuji's initial goal to save as many people as possible to not die alone will be achieved. Also with the demise of Sukuna less people will suffer because of curse spirits.
I'm really glad we don't get Yuta as a protagonist. He's a good character with interesting beginning and satisfying end in his arc, but he's basically ken kaneki in jujutsu world.
i agree yuta its filled with clichè,yuji is more "something new"
It’s very easy to understand why prefer Yuta over Yuji as a protagonist:
In the movie where Yuta’s the protagonist he was more enjoyable/interesting than Yuji in the manga, hence why we prefer Yuta. Simple as that…
Yuta’s character came ‘full circle’ because Gege wrote it that way, he wasn’t expecting Jujutsu Kaisen 0 to be a ongoing serialised manga. Had he it not, Yuta would’ve been the protagonist and his arc would’ve stretched out longer.
Anyways, I’m not caught up in the manga but Yuta can still get development. He probably is now you just weren’t paying attention because it’s not about power.
@@FlexStyleZ it is easy to understand why people prefer Yuta over Yuji because he feels more the archetyp of a overpowered protagonist that outshines most of the cast with his amount of curse energy/chakra/reiatsu/demon slayer mark.
In the movie Yuta is more enjoyable and interesting because that's the legitimate start of the franchise within the universe itself. If we started with Maki, Toge or Panda it clearly wouldn't have been.
"Akutami wasn't expecting Jujutsu Kaisen as a ongoing serialised manga" you say that like it's a bad thing. It's more due to Akutami's talent as a writer. Volume 0 laid the groundwork for Akutami's actual success. Yet Jujutsu Kaisen was originally supposed to when Yuji died the first time in episode 5.
Yuta's arc couldn't have been stretched out because there was no overacting danger. The disaster curses only came into play because of Kenjaku and his main objective was Gojo. Yuta went overseas to train and refine his techniques. So it was a plausible solution for him not being a Japan since other jujutsu sorcerers needed to evolve. Season 1 as we know it wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Yuji.
Yuji consuming Sukuna's finger triggered a beacon for special grade curses to pop up out of nowhere. Why do you think they held up the tornument with Kyoto high school? The situation became so worse that those teens needed to evolve even faster now.
Lastly you admitted to not being caught up to the manga so you can't jude the difference between Yuji's and Yuta's influence within the story itself. Even characterwise Yuji is far more sympathetic than Yuta
Yuta isn't that shy, anxious little boy anymore yet Yuji's relationships with other characters are more genuine. You're right it's not solely about power and in this regard Yuji exeeds Yuta.
@@Grayson-Winchester Yuta’s not a archetype of a overpowered protagonist (that’s Gojo). I like him because he’s the opposite: He was this scared timid loser who was getting bullied and needed Rika to protect him. Yuta struggled with depression, loneliness, a existential crisis- he had no reason to live or a reason to live for. He metaphorically created Rika because of how her death traumatised him.
He managed to grow into a more confident, reliable, independent young man who’s now the 2nd strongest Jujutsu sorcerer.
The issue isn’t that ppl like Yuta, Gojo, Megumi etc. more. It’s that Yuji just isn’t as interesting for a protagonist. Someone mentioned Gon as a similar example and this is why Gon is still beloved as HxH MC despite disappearing in the current manga:
Gon drives the plot. We follow him on his journey to find his father and there’s side goals he wants to achieve along the way. Even when Gon isn’t on-screen he feels like the MC because of his presence. Gon learns new techniques and grows/matured over the course of the story.
Yuji is the opposite: Yuji doesn’t drive the plot, his goal is he wants to protect his friends. When Yuji isn’t on screen no one’s checking for him- he’s just *there* and gets outshined by so many characters, and if there’s a problem we know there’s Gojo around to handle it. Yuji lacks the presence a MC should have. Yuji hasn’t gone through the same growth. Yuji has no bag. Like why should I favour Yuji?
He’s the definition of mid
I was rewatching JJK and itadori’s duo with Toudo (I kinda forget his name) was AWSOME
I am enjoying his character I think there is more to him that hasnt been revealed to us yet. The focus has been on the others but I am waiting on that moment when Yuji surpasses everyone. Whether its human with sheer determination or his bloodline, im all or it. Ngl i would prefer if he stayed human and without Sukuna he gets stronger. Or Gege can go with Yuji getting Sukunas abilities
The author is idiot im better writer than him if i can make my own anime i will make better than jujutsu kaisen Very Easy
I remember seeing some theories saying that either kenjaku taking over itadoris mother may have given him his superhuman strength and/or his father is connected to the jujutsu world. I think gege has something good planned for yuji (well maybe not good for yuji but for his character writing)
@@GensChilledCola bruh there's only one i need is "money"
Well, Now he'll be the MC
You have good videos because you have a good voice
I really miss it when he was popular but ever since gojo and other arcs came they just removed him from everything
Can u blame them for liking gojo tho
Yes, he is still the MC. For one, this will be Gojo's final battle win or lose. His brain is going to end up fried, and I doubt he would be fit to use any technique. He won't be in a condition to counter whatever Kenjaku is doing while Gojo is fighting Sukuna. Megumi? He's in a fucked position. Sukuna ruined his body, and his sister is dead. Yuta? Gege already said that Yuta's story ended with JJK0. Furthermore, there's a lot more going on with Yuji than the other characters. He has direct ties to Kenjaku, the main antagonist. That already elevates him to a level of importance higher than other characters.
I think that Yuji being pulled by the story rather than being the lead is shown when he said during his final fight with Mahito that be is probably just a cog. But I still hold that he will have the final moment in the end of the story. No way he won't fight Sukuna.
He has sukunas ability which is probably like pandoras box where he goes inside bodies traps the soul and takes over them and then swapped back so if it is swapping bodies and he gets technoques from them and he can do it without killing them or has away to go back to his body and them come back looks whos around him hell be unreal and top tier very soon
I don't think gojo steals yuji's Spotlight just cuz he is strong but i feel like gege just doesnt like him now or something, during the culling games he barely had a role compared to Megumi, and now there is no reason for having the sukuna fight a 1 v 1 with only gojo, the fight with both yuji and maki was great but short so idk how to feel I hope he gets to do something important during this fight, sukuna is the one who ruined his life and his best friend is traped inside him so having him just watching feels wrong
Hey Itadori isn't the seccomd fiddle to gojo. Yuta Okkotsu is the 2nd fiddle. Yuji is maybe third fourth string
If we are talking about who moves the plot. It's kenjaku, is he a MC? no, just because the protagonist is not the main focus that does not mean he is not the main character. He develops more as a person, rather than his strength which is something new that i can get behind, rather than another MC gets beat up, gets power up then beats the villain. We already had a lot of those
how about the part where there's no even 1 power up that giving to itadori?
it's been long time and until now the old itadori was still the same. imagine the jjk will end already probably after sukuna vs gojo. if he's the mc he must at least evolve as a character and learned some Curse technique but the author never made it happens. It was a sign that author doesn't care about the mc anymore maybe he was sick at the time where he was choosing who will be the mc
@@clipsnime8520 read my comment again, slowly
You're probably the side character of your own life that's why may be you're having the urges for once in your lifetime to read a story where it just focuses on side characters😆
It's a battle-shonen manga.Obviously people would expect significant growth in terms of strength and character over the course of time from the *P R O T A G O N I S T*
@@shinoiki3443Did Edward Elric get a growth in strength? Is Gon important in Hunter x Hunter world?
Just think Gojo is the main character, boom, suddenly it all makes sense again.
I'd say my favorite character is Yuji. Right now in the manga everyone feels like a side character compared to this huge fight, Yuji more so due to how he's been shafted in this arc. I believe the way Yuji's character is being developed has purpose; Yuji's moments of growth have always had long periods in-between, and each time they happen he does something unbelievable. When the big bad shows itself and all seems lost Yuji will step in and do the thing no one else can, not even Gojo or Sukuna. Yuji's character was never supposed to be overwhelming like Sukuna or unstoppable like Gojo, he was made to struggle and be underestimated.
I just hope yuji don’t die
Yuji is a character who you can relate to really well, an unique mc who isn't the strongest just because he is titeled as the mc of the show.
"it turns into gojo show"
audience: we dont mind !
He is amazing
Even if Gojo loses, there is no way Yuji will ever be strong enough to deal with Sukuna. Even if he will eventually be able to use Sukuna's abilities he won't be as proficient with them. He also scales far below Kenjaku. I think that is indeed why he doesn't feel like a main character. At the end, he probably won't be "The strongest". In almost every anime, the protagonist will be the strongest
Not gonna lie jkk is fucking stupid it tried to do what hunter x hunter did
@@Flash_HarlZ_exactly
Great video . #JJKGREATNESS
I can clearly confirm that jjk has become gojo's story- me and my friends had a hard time keeping up with the manga when gojo got sealed, and we only really got excited when gojo was finally released. All we wanted was for Gojo to be unsealed. Now all we want after chapter 236 if for the blue eyed king to come back/return T^T
I just thought of something if yuji dies how would it affect the plot. I cant really think of many ways that it would 🤔
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I think it's just bad writing and too many people are just trying to reach for things that aren't there to explain why Yuji even exists in the first place. You can still have a main character, where the story doesn't revolve around their "Arc" or their "Story".
But usually how that's handled is, you still have the MC participating in another character's Arc or Story. The whole "Story" doesn't have to be about the MC's story, but the part he played in the "Story".
Just look at "The Hobbit". Bilbo is the main character, but it's ultimately Thorin's story that is being told and advertised. So it's basically Bilbo's perspective and story of being part of Thorin's Quest.
i usually despise series that treat the mc as a side character but that's mainly because most series that do it just don't have a good roundup of likeable characters like jjk has
I like it when a story doesn't only progress through the main character
I'm not even gonna lie, I started jjk because of Gojo XD I forgot Yuji was the main character. Which is weird because I remember Sukuna fine, and I'm semi-caught up with the manga. I do agree being a "good" protagonists is all about execution and perspective. But, I also feel like Yuji was cooking for a little too long. He's still my son. I'm never bored so big plus. BUT, I'm just a big Gojo (and Toji) simp first and foremost :p
I've been wondering the same thing for a while... His last manga fight was like 2 years ago??? I think this maybe the reason JJK sales are declining (I mean, in comparison with almost anything else, they are superb... but numbers like JJK used to have 2 or 3 years ago are completely out of the question).
This debates arise when one see the story in relation to ;heros and villans , strong and weak ,or saving the world.When you see the characters and situations the story goes through yuji possess the most fresh and organic perspectives and development.And his character arc is the most influential and relatable one.
i think it's better that we get to see more of other characters, i think they gonna come back to him at some point
Cause your weak let me give you a example let's say your mc and im the side character im the side character i can fly i can defeat all monster and even save the all world but you the mc you cannot fly or do anything be cause you WEAK
"I'm just a cog" It's dope that he just accepts where he is and what he can do and doesn't have any crazy goals but just to exercise curses and die honorably next to his friends.
I felt like Yuji is an anti-hero with the hope of deus ex machina at the end.
I wonder when will they put'em back in the show
Maybe by season 4? Its the Gojo show now
we as readers have no clue about Yuujis backstory and the plot is driven by him in the sense he was BRED (lmao) to become sukunas vessel. Yuji’s personality is very contrasting as he is very selfless and doesn’t have that ‘ego’ the strongest have, he is a breathe of fresh air in JJK
it's the exact opposite, his character not only feels fake but is cliche asf by manga standards, you're probably young and jerking off seeing yourself in him
Sakuna and Gojo rn: Admit it I was the jujutsu kiasen all along
gege needs to find a way to make it not the gojo show... after gojo vs sukuna theres still quite a bit to go as while the story is closer to the end then it is to the beginning, there is alot for yuji and co to clean like kenjaku
I guarentee that at the end of the Gojo vs Sukuna fight, they'll reveal that Gojo pushed his technique way past the limit and nerf him in a significant way (not that that's a bad thing, if he's still at 100% post sukuna fight, the protagonists would be able to wipe Kenjaku.)
A JJK video about Yuji, I'm shocked I tell you.
Anyway I know this video was likely recorded prior to the recent stream where this was brought up, but the Kenjaku connection Yuji will also be important for his story going forward regardless of how the Sukuna fight ends. Yuji's role as an MC is not quite done, it's just taking a side step with this current fight.
Agreed. Yuji has and always will be the MC. It just feels awkward when he’s very much on the sideline.
i think yuji is going to get his moment when we focus more onto kenjaku again, considering that yujis mother was taken over by kenjaku and there are theories that yujis father may have had connections to the jujutsu world, I don't think jjk is anywhere near its end, I hope that gege has something planned for yuji in the near future
The author said its ending though
@@everythingship8226 can you link a source please?
theyre just good and like giving some background and focus on other characters which is a big + for example where they had maki and mai fight, but also had the broom girl and nobaka they dont just have em cut to that stuff they actually have full on episodes made for em. Now i do agree that gojo steals the show alot alongside some others but i still think its a good thing other than just ignoring every other character and having the full focus on yuji
Man i really liked Yuji as the mc 😢
Holy shit I completely forgot about yuji and megumi even with what's happening in the manga
Perfect example of a great story turning into a trainwreck. Dont fix whats not broken
Thats cool and all but Nobara is dead or not?
yuji is like tanjiro. I like the Teacher student relation between Gojo and Yuji. And how yuji adapts afterwards.
Dude... Yuji is both the primary antagonist AND protagonist based on the anime alone (what I've seen so far, at least).
Am I the only one that sees it that way?
He hasn't even absorbed all of the cursed objects... I'm totally invested in seeing how that plays out. Will Gojo be forced to stop Sukuna... Will Yuji come up with new and creative ways to suppress Sukuna... Will Gojo's gift shift from focusing on his power to empowering Yuji to overcome Sukuna... How will this progress with each "finger"? lol
That's the itch I feel like I need to scratch SOOOOO bad.
This question right comes to my mind when I see anime and manga is full of gojo's appearance instead 😂
Even Yuuji va said he can't help but disappointed (in interview) bc someone said to him his mc character gonna be replaced by someone else
yuji is great mc i wish the manga was written with him being the mc in mind
It's more like a football match. Everyone eventually gets substituted. It's more about collective effforts, where few are the mvp and still the others are needed.
i like when the main character isn't the strongest/main driving force in a story because it's an unrealistic idea to have one person pushing everything forward or back and I feel jjk does a really good job of telling people that if you aren't born special in some way you'll be killed and basically will hit your limit (most people being grade 1.) Special grade is reserved for best of the best/inate talent/born with the ability to sway the balance of the world unless you sacrifice some element of yourself you will basically be fodder in jjk world which I honestly kinda fuck with it makes sense given the world they live in has been expressed many times as a cut throat world so having the strongest of two time periods alive now and fighting it out makes sense we can't have anyone but that special grade peak to fight right now. I think it also helps humble the characters and even shows the reader that the characters in the story rely on gojo to much (it's why I think he will lose) gojo breaking free only to die or be severely punished and weakened would show the characters they need to seriously get stronger and stop relying on gojo as their trump card which in part has been done already but not fully I feel as gojo is still present in the story as a major power house
I always liked that jjk focuses on other characters and makes the MC godlike. Jjk takes it to an extreme though 🙈
Mine also yuzi fav
Jjk is the type of story where the main character shifts from arc to arc, the more try to put it in a box the more confused you’ll be, Yuji was the main character til Sukuna escaped, now hes more of a side character til the focus is back on him.
its only been a few chapters since Sukuna escaped. Its not Yuji has been thrown away forever. Every show does this. Even in Naruto Sasuke got whole arcs to himself and even Shikamaru where Naruto felt more like a side character in a show named after him.
@@ryanmacharika3946 I wouldn’t say 15-17 chapters is a few, but im referring to how Gege writes, the story didn’t actually start with Yuji, it started with Yuta, now in season 2 Gojo is the main character for hidden inventory, and across the culling game main perspective shifted every 10 chapters or so, hopefully Yujis character and ability set develops more, cause if he doesn’t awaken some type of ability him fighting Sukuna will just be boring. While yuji is the main character hes not the entire center of the story, who’s skilled enough to defeat sukuna is way more important than who gets to do it, I’d rather Sukuna lose to Gojo than to Yuji who cant learn a CT and doesn’t have 1.
@@darthcaliginous2066 i don't think Yuji is going to be the strongest but he will somehow influence the way the story ends the same way Subaru does in Re:Zero. He doesn't need to be the strongest
@@ryanmacharika3946 haven’t seen Re Zero but its funny you mentioned that i saw a clip of it yesterday and would like to watch it since theres a character with similar abilities to Gojo
@@darthcaliginous2066 you should check it out. The MC is very central to the story but he is very weak, like probably the weakest among the main cast. But every time someone dies he restarts the day so his job is to find ways to save people in difficult or sometimes seemingly impossible situations. its by far the best isekai
yuji will dwfinitly get his really big character arc after this arc cause at least I think that Gojo's gonna die under what circumstances idk but gege made yujo the mc for a reason so he will definitely be important later on
agree, im not too sure if gojo would be killed off like that, but I have a feeling that there's gonna be a wild card in the gojo vs sukuna fight, whether that wild card is gonna be a bad guy, a good guy, or even some type of event. gege doesn't seem like the person to make the mc this bad especially considering how little we know about yuji
I mean I like yuji as a character and I dont really wanna admit that ur right(cuz of my bias for yuji) but I guess I gotta face the facts
Gon vibes and Killua's the gojo
Yuji is like shin in kingdom. He is growing and learning and will become or try to become great sourcerer like his teacher. And every other fights is like fights in kingdom where the generaos fight and as a low powered chaeacter u just watch from sidelines and when presented with opportunities to show ur strenght they do. Thats how i see yuji. If they would not have transferred sukuna in megumi or something it would have been like naruto where u know main character is strong from start but does not know how to controol his powers but now i think yuji can develop his own style or something.
Shin has seen MUCH MORE action and has had greater impact on the Kingdom storyline and events than Yuji has had in JJK universe😂😂 don't compare the 2. His skills and rank has also improved and developed throughout the story. Yuuji is stuck at the same place he was at the beginning with 2 or 3 minor "power ups".
I'd say it is a much better comparison to say JJK likes to sideline its Mc like Ace of Diamond.
Gojo is like Miyuki
Megumi is Furuya
Itadori is Eijun
@@troll1321 who knows I like the writers style he has given equal importance to every character. Maybe we can see new style of story telling megumi father became everyone's favourite in just 4 episode gojo is favourite everyone's sympathizes with megumi. Maki is good panda has his own charm and sukuna although ia in villains team in manga right now I am not able to decide whether I want sukuna to win or gojo I like sukuna style also and and gojo friend his story was also good . Is jjk eveyones has their own style.
Tbh it reminds me of Sinbad in Magi if that makes sense
But seriously since the beginning I think everyone wondering between gojo and sukuna who s the strangest since that time it feel like yuji was not the main character
Usually the strongest is about the 2 main character
Looks at many shonen mangas where the strongest are typically prodigy or old masters
But isnt it better to see something different instead? Better for something fresh and different instead of following a trend from fathers and grandfathers of shounen?
To me Jjk feels like it got everything from the past shounen and mixed it in with more open modern themes.
@@semekiizuiono, from what i see, id only want one mc, but jjk made me so confused with many mc, id really prefer one mc tho so we can focus on character development of that individual
@@Glansius well arent you fortune to have the classics to look back to and enjoy the single mc plotline you wont confuse yourself over.
Yuji is still mc, theres still information we lack of him therefore he still has a role to play. If you cant keep up well 🤷♀️ thats ok plenty of other media to watcg
There are 3 main characters in JJK, Yuta, Yuji, Gojo
I have a feeling gojo's only tangible way of winning is to do some op sh as usual that somehow overpowers sukuna or to seal sukuna inside of yuji again...
Which is why I personally hope gojo dies, if the "strongest" dies then there's something for Yuji to strive to surpass instead of being a cog
jjk writters have the ability to make multiple MCs like yuji, yuta and arguably gojo. Sort of what HxH does. Which is why im personally not just invested in yuji but the entirety of jjk. Generally animes wont involve civillians or mention them so when utter destruction happens its just like eh. But in jjk, specifically shibuya. Holy shit. While my emotions were not those of yujis i still felt devastated.
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I honestly lost interest while reading the manga because of this. Yuji has so much potential. The first episode? He is literally superhuman. We don‘t see that. He gets treated like an extra. It‘s so annoying.
Anime only fans would always have a special place for yuji.. he and megumi will always be the mcs and we still like gojo showing off here and there.
Yes he is it's just one arc of gojo before he gets sealed away for like 4
COGji will keep moving forward till all the curses are destroyed.
yuji is just us...he us watching jjk with us
hopefully he gets sukuna back
Some people might say he could be a self, insert
kinda confusing when yuuta, gojo, and yuji all could be the MC
I think its basically confirmed at this point that he ain't, if you looked at the Shonen Jump cover a while back, it showed all the series with their main character and most having 2 side characters next to them, but the newer series only had MC and 1 side character, and One Piece was in front with Luffy with Zoro and Sanji on his sides and Chopper in front. But there was Deku in the middle with Bakugo and Todoroki on his sides, Asta in the middle with Yuno and Noelle on his sides, you get the picture. Anyway, for JJK it had Gojo in the middle with Yuji and Yuta on his sides. Not the most concrete evidence, but it was drawn by Gege, so thats about as close to conformation that, atleast at this point in time, Gojo is the MC of JJK
I think the only way yuji becomes relevant again is if the manga focuses in the relationship between him and kenjaku, and he gets some kind of power up. At the moment there is nothing he can do better than gojo, yuuta, or Maki.
As a Gojo fan girl Im fine with it
my question is why does every anime or series or movie have to have a main character? i personally watch the series for the story and to see everyone and see were its going i dont rlly care for a mail character
Guess I'm gonna drop the anime after that Shibuya arc ╮(￣▽￣)╭