Jujutsu Kaisen just went to the next level...
Jujutsu Kaisen just released the 15th episode of its ongoing second season, a season which initially covered the events in 2006 and Geto’s banishment from Jujutsu High, and really what shaped him as a character. However, the main, current day arc that it covers is the highly anticipated Shibuya Incident Arc, which has been hyped up by manga readers for years. The arc’s purpose and the curses goal in this arc is to complete the sealing of the strongest jujutsu sorcerer on earth, Satoru Gojo. However, this is actually completed in the first few episodes, and for about a month now the crew have been trying to rescue Gojo from the prison realm. Last episode seen another one of the cursed group awaken, named Dagon, and he trapped Maki, Naobito and Nanami in his Domain. Megumi manages to enter the domain and devises a plan to let his comrades escape from the domain, but as he opens the hole, his father Toji Fushiguro appears out of it.
That was the lead up to this episode, but this episode is where the crazy events of this incident seem to begin. Toji arrives but is unconscious, his personality has been wiped and he is essentially an emotionless killing machine. He attacks Dagon and absolutely annihilates him as if he’s nothing, and breaks everybody out of the domain. Toji seems to set his sights on the strongest of the group. apparently that is Megumi, and that cliffhanger remains there. As this is happening, Jogo arrives and mourns the death of his fellow curse before going on an absolute rampage and with ease, seemingly killing Nanami, Maki and Naobito. He sees a vision and senses the presence of Sukuna before chasing it, and finds the 2 geto-worshipping twins Nanako and Mimiko feeding Yuji’s lifeless body one of Sukuna’s fingers. The 2 refuse to give out information on how many fingers they’d given Yuji and so Jogo attacks them. He then pulls out a scroll of 10 of Sukuna’s fingers and feeds Yuji them one-by-one, therefore making it 15 fingers inside him. This causes Sukuna to temporarily take over Yuji’s body and gives him full control. he instantly terrifies the 2 twins as well as even Jogo, and tells them to bow. He asks the twins of a wish, and they ask Sukuna to kill the man who has taken over Geto’s body. Mimiko has to add in that they know of a location of one of Sukuna’s fingers and tried to bribe him into killing the psuedo-geto and in return learn the location of another finger. Sukuna clearly thinks this is laughable and gruesomely decapitates Mimiko, to Nanako’s terrifying disbelief. She tries to kill Sukuna somehow and he absolutely decimates her as well, clearly showing off the havoc that he can wreak if he wants to. He clearly has his plans in mind and the plot just got 10x more interesting than it was before, even though the season was already fantastic. The amount of death/serious injury in this episode just seemed to raise the stakes to a whole new level and I can’t wait to find out what happens next. It really feels like any character could die, even the main character feels like an afterthought right now because his body has been taken over by an absolute demon and there’s nothing he can do about it. It already feels pretty tragic but I’m aware that this arc doesn’t exactly have much brightness to it in the back half. There’s still so much to happen as well - What happens with Nobara and Nitta? Megumi and Toji? Jogo and Sukuna? Are Nanami and Maki actually dead? Will Gojo be unsealed? Where is Mahito and what happens to him? Panda? Toge? even… Yuta???? SO MUCH.