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Ending any popular manga is tough, but trying to find a way to wrap up a story as intense as Jujutsu Kaisen takes a particularly steady hand. Gege Akutami’s manga has spawned one of the most popular modern Shonen anime series we’ve seen, but the final chapter has finally landed and, with it, the end of Yuji and Sukuna’s battle.

Obviously, we’re going to dive into spoilers for the final few chapters of Jujutsu Kaisen, so look away if you still need to catch up.

How does Jujutsu Kaisen end?

It is a fight that has been brewing ever since Yuji ate that finger back in Chapter One of Jujutsu Kaisen – the final confrontation between the King of Curses and his unwilling host. With Sukuna now in Megumi Fushiguro’s body, he has access to the Ten Shadows technique as well as the nearly limitless amount of Cursed Energy at his disposal. With Satoru Gojo already dead, it is up to Yuji to fight back against Sukuna.

Yuji’s Black Flash manages to strike at the barrier between Sukuna’s energy and Fushiguro’s soul, allowing him to hurt Sukuna without harming his friend. However, the tide truly turns when Sukuna realizes that Yuji has been playing him all this time. The finger that Yuta Okkotsu ate earlier in the fight wasn’t Sukuna’s but Yuji’s. This meant that one of Sukuna’s fingers was still out in the world, allowing Nobara to use Resonance on it to directly attack his soul and disrupt his domain. After offering Sukuna mercy one last time, Yuji Itadori stepped up and finished off the King of Curses.

What happened to Gojo at the end of Jujutsu Kaisen?

Despite Gojo’s death, he had one more message to deliver to his students. He had written letters to Nobara and Megumi before he died; Nobara’s letter contained the whereabouts of her mother, but she didn’t actually care about that. In his letter to Megumi, Gojo confirmed that he had killed his father years before the start of the series, which made Megumi laugh.

What happened to Megumi and the others at the end of Jujutsu Kaisen?

Sukuan’s remains are used to reinforce Tengen’s barrier, but Tokyo remains a dangerous area where curses run rampant. Yuji, Nobara, and Megumi work together to try to protect people in this dangerous new world. After stopping a curse user, Yuji remembers a conversation he had with Gojo where his teacher said he wanted Yuji to carry on his mission to change the world for the better. Because of this, Yuji offers an encouraging word to the curse user before he is taken away.

However, there is one more bit of epilogue to cover before the final chapter of Jujutsu Kaisen ends. Sukuna comes across Mohito in the afterlife and, for the first time, appears to be ready to change. Where Gojo had hoped to remain exactly the same upon reincarnation, Sukuna accepts that perhaps he will change in his next life, something that enrages Mohito.

The final panel of the Jujutsu Kaisen manga is a close-up of Sukuna’s final finger in a seemingly abandoned shrine. However, with the King of Curses vanquished, it is now little more than a powerful cursed item… we think.

Was the ending of Jujutsu Kaisen good?

The final battle against Sukuna is filled with twists and difficult decisions from the main characters, but was it a worthy finale to one of the best-selling manga ever? That is something that is probably going to be debated for a long time. While the actual plot was fun and kept us on our toes throughout, the pacing was consistently rushed, which lessened the impact of some of the twists. However, you could say that about the entire manga, so perhaps it is simply the way Gege Akutami writes. There are also plenty of loose threads out there that could have been resolved but weren't, though that could be the basis for an upcoming sequel series if we're lucky.

We would have liked to have seen the last couple of chapters given more time to breathe, allowing for smaller moments with the characters, but the last six years have been a wild ride all the same.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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