This article includes spoilers for the “Jujutsu Kaisen” manga. Reader discretion is advised.
Despite having started as the most anticipated battle of “Jujutsu Kaisen“, the general opinion on the fight against Sukuna is quickly going downhill and suggests that the series may have lost what made it good in the first place. The climactic battle takes quite a while with the sorcerers throwing everything they can at Sukuna. However, one big problem has become evident with each new chapter, and it may ruin what could have been the best battle in “Jujutsu Kaisen.”
Part of what made Jujutsu Kaisen so popular and entertaining was its originality, unpredictability, and well-choreographed combat. However, since Satoru Gojo’s defeat, the match against Sukuna has fallen into a predictable pattern and become repetitive, losing most of its fun and initial charm.
As the memes have detailed endlessly, the battle is trapped in an endless cycle that fans are slowly starting to tire of. Every new opponent that enters the fight against Sukuna follows the same cycle in which they make a confident entrance; The chapter highlights his abilities, they inflict minor damage on Sukuna (who defeats them without breaking a sweat), and a new character takes his place at the end of a cliffhanger only to follow the same pattern in the next chapter.
This cycle of repetitive deaths has not only had an impact of fatigue on readers, but also of disinterest. Unfortunately, Gege Akutami has resorted to the same resource as fans, seeing a new character enter the battle, they are already more than ready to see his eventual death. It was precisely for this reason that when the most recent chapter (leaked, obviously) showed the death of Choso, the reaction was not sadness, but rather “I expected it.”
While fans continue to debate this aspect, reactions to the new chapter were immediate:
- «I lost interest in Jujutsu Kaisen for the same reason as Tokyo Revengers, everything became repetitive and the only new things are character deaths».
- «It pains me to say it because I love manga, but I’m so lazy reading Jujutsu Kaisen for several chapters now. I feel like everything became very repetitive and emotionless. Sukuna simply sweeps away the character on duty who enters the fight and that’s it, nothing more.».
- «The way the current Jujutsu Kaisen arc is developing has me sick with how long and repetitive it is, and I can’t wait for it to be over and done with.».
- «The saddest thing about Jujutsu Kaisen is that you can’t criticize it because all the fat women in the world come to defend Gege Akutami».
- «I don’t think Gege doesn’t know how to write, but I’ve found the manga very repetitive lately. I think Jujutsu Kaisen is good and entertaining, but it has enough details that make me not rate it as highly as many».
- «To be honest, it’s boring me because it’s too repetitive and it’s adding random characters to give them prominence. But if the so-called best jujutsu sorcerer couldn’t, it is difficult for any character who enters who is obviously inferior to him to win.».
- «Better put them all to sleep. Keep it up Gege and you will remove Shingeki no Kyojin’s position as one of the worst animenga endings».
- «Gege Akutami, hurry up to finish your work, which is becoming more and more emasculating. You already killed almost the entire cast of characters».
- «Isn’t this damn endless fighting garbage over yet?».
- «Wow, the eternal fight now adds another death. What an innovative Gege!».
- «And at the end you hear, “save us crying hero”, and Itadori makes a jump in time when everyone was a child and avoids everything that happened».
- «Another one, Gege has definitely already forgotten how to have good fights».
- «For two years repeating the same formula in their mediocre fight, one leaves and another enters, he dies and the next one».
- «Not even Kimetsu no Yaiba, even though it also applied the idea that everyone dies in the final battle, dared to go on so long. In just over a year Gotouge-sensei perfectly developed a similar final arc».
- «At this step the villain will eliminate himself when he has no more adversaries left.».
Fountain: Twitter
