Do you have/like any ships from Jujutsu Kaisen?
My favorite ships in Jujutsu Kaisen are what I call the three generations of Yin / Yang pairings that the story sets up to parallel one another.
Satoru Gojo x Suguru Geto
The two of them are set up as a pair of “complementary opposites”. One of the first thing they do in the flashback arc is see them get into an argument. Gojo believes that the strong should not have to cater to the weak, while Suguru believes that the strong are responsible for protecting the weak. Their most fundamental beliefs that drive them are in conflict with one another, and yet they are each other’s closest and only friends.
Geto gets Gojo and pays attention to him like no one else, noticing when he may be tiring and wearing himself out, while everyone else regards him as the strongest. Gojo also for his best returns that point. Outside of their ideals, they care for each other as people, and it’s their ideals specifically that drive them apart.
I refer to these as Yin / Yang pairings, because Gojo and Geto also despite being opposites, carry a little bit of each other in the other. The idea of the Yin and Yang is opposite, but interconnected forces. The symbol itself (ie. the Taijitu symbol) shows a balance between two opposites with a portion of the opposite element in each section. The most interesting aspect of these two is how despite being eventual enemies how interconnected they are. In some ways, Geto and Gojo sort of flip because of their relationship with each other.
At the end of the Hidden Inventory Arc, it is now Gojo who is arguing that they strong need to protect innocent people, because of Geto reaching out to Gojo and telling him not to massacre the cult immediately in the aftermath of death because that would not have any meaning, while Geto is arguing that Sorcerers should rule, because they are stronger and have no obligation to continually sacrifice themselves to protect the weaker people with no cursed energy. Even when they are enemies, they are still connected.
Maki Zenin x Yuta Okkotsu
Arguably, in the upperclassmen it’s Yuta and Maki who parallel Gojo and Geto the most. They also have the most dynamic interaction with each other, in that they both bring out a change in the other as a result of their meeting. Yuta would not have made any progress in zero, if Maki had not been the first person to challenge him and tell him to stop acting like a villain. At the same time, Yuta because of his inherent softness was able to express his admiration for Maki, someone who has been demonized her entire life.
They are another pair of complementary opposites, but rather than Gojo and Geto who oppose each others on ideals of justice, Yuta and Maki are opposites in regard to love. Yuta does everything he does for the sake of his loved ones and keeping them close. He even screamed that at Geto as the reason he was fighting against them.
Maki growing up unloved by everyone in the Zenin clan except Mai, prioritizes her pride and strength above everything else. Unlike Yuta who wants people to remain close, Maki deliberately pushes people away and pursues strength, following down Toji’s exact same path as becoming the next sorcerer killer.
These two are also set up as opposites in many ways as the plot, Yuta is labeled a prodigy, whereas right now over and over again Maki has been referred to as a demon. They are both people who have lost the person who loved them in their childhood, Rika for Yuta and Mai for Maki, and they are now wielding whatever remains of that person as a weapon. Yuta is still fighting to protect the people closest to him, but his opponent in the culling game tells him that someone as loved as Yuta couldn’t understand those who haven’t been loved, and also someone like Yuta could never reach Sukuna’s level because he has too much humanity in him and Sukuna is like calamity, while we don’t know what Maki is fighting for right now and she seesm to becoming more and more like a pure force of strength. There’s just so much that can come from their confrontation.
Itadori Yuji x Megumi Fushigoro
The final pair of parallels, but once again the way they contradict each other is on an entirely different matter. Yuji is someone who wants to save everyone indsicriminately no matter who they are. Whereas, Megumi wants to selfishly pick and choose who he gets to save.
This conflict begins from Megumi’s very first action in the manga, choosing to save Yuji after he ate the Sukuna finger, rather than kill him, even if that action puts more people at risk. The relationship between Megumi and Yuji is deeply interwoven into the text of the manga itself. Their actions impact each other’s development.
BECAUSE Megumi chose to save Yuji rather than executing him, Yuta later goes onto let Sukuna rampage in Shibuya. Which made Yuji’s original goal of eating all the fingers, and then sacrificing himself seem a lot less heroic now that the same innocent people he was trying to nobly sacrifice himself to protect have died.
ON THE FLIP SIDE, Megumi is now dealing with a very suicidal Yuji riddled with survival’s guilt, who is leaping at the chance to die for a greater cause. Megumi’s decision to “save people selfishly” is putting him at direct odds with Yuji who he has chosen to save, because Yuji a very selfless person can’t put his life above others, especially the people he’s hurt now.
Yuji has as recently as the latest chapter, offered to die to Angel to let Gojo out of the box because he is just so desperate for SOMETHING to do to make up for letting Sukuna out in Shibuya, while Megumi himself is DESPERATELY trying to keep the people who are still close to him (totalling Yuji, and Tsumiki at this point) safe. Despite the fact that they are such great friends, they still fall into conflict, and that conflict is what makes the ship interesting.
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Yess, I'm sad that not a lot of people are talking about that scene like it showed how Maki opens up about herself and Yuta like the good boy he is accepted and admired her.. I'm surprised there weren't a lot of people that talked about that even when the movie came out, I even waited and expected there would at least be a lot of fanfic about that moment but there aren't
I wish more ppl would realize/talk about the fact Yuta is the first one Maki opens up to about her family situation and he is also the first person to validate Maki and tell her she’s amazing. Yes the malewife/girlboss dynamic is *chef’s kiss* but I also love the moments of vulnerability and candidness between these two that display trust and closeness. I feel like the conversation she had with Yuta is why she seems so much more confident when she talks to Nobara about the fact she can’t see curses.
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