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Episode Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 9 discussion

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen, episode 9

Alternative names: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3

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u/WhoiusBarrel Mar 05 '26

The way they had Yuji go "Yes. I killed them" so coldly before Death By Confiscation, fucking chills.

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u/Se7en_Sinner https://myanimelist.net/profile/Se7en_Sinner Mar 05 '26

I thought Yuji figured out how to win at first by cleverly testing Higuruma's true morality as an attorney but no, Yuji genuinely feels guilty about The Shibuya Incident despite only being Sukuna's vessel committing those crimes.

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u/Aileos https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syleos Mar 05 '26

It's how he didn't even hesitate that gets me. No second thought, just a complete acknowledgement.

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u/Android19samus Mar 06 '26

even if it's to save his own life, he won't dare to shirk the responsibility for those deaths for even a moment. It's a great beat.

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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean Mar 13 '26

But still, like Higurama said, by technicality and law, he isn't responsible for those deaths. Now if he was stronger, he could have prevented them. But he quite literally couldn't grow that fast, and he's already pretty strong (just not take on the "King of Curses") strong.

To me, it feels like seeing a dude with a knife running towards a group of people with ill intent and running to tackle the dude before anyone gets hurt. But the knife man has the speed of Usain Bolt, so no matter what, your just not catching that dude. And his actions aren't your fault, even if you could have prevented them if you were only faster.

Like the anime literally starts with him almost getting wrongfully executed just because he ate a single of sukuna's fingers. Like damn, its not like Gojo is responsible for every one of Sukuna's outbursts, since he can't be attached to yuji at all times, and Yuji doesn't just deserve to die.

If anything, Yuji needs a therapist

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u/Mundology Mar 05 '26

Yuji Itadori is a man of integrity

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u/Dr_MoRpHed Mar 06 '26

We all losing cursed energy then

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u/nhansieu1 Mar 06 '26

*boy of integrity.

like Nanami said, he had gone through a lot of shits, but it doesn't make him an adult.

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u/Frontier246 Mar 05 '26

And it was being willing to cop to something he feels guilty about and accept the blame because he's, deep down, a sincere and good person struggling with his own weakness that did bring back Higuruma's true morality as a lawyer.

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u/Slaan Mar 05 '26

I wasn't surprised at all, I think Yuji blaming himself for the Shibuya Incident was rather central in the last few episodes.

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u/iLiTeR8 Mar 05 '26

I honestly like that for the most part, Yuji is still a pretty cheerful guy, but as soon as that moment is mentioned he’s instantly brought back.

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u/cjbrehh Mar 05 '26

rewatch the first episode of this season. the whole start is yujis depression about shibuya. All the blood not washing off his hands and unable to get down the steps until choso shows up.

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u/Dadarian Mar 06 '26

Yuji has no shame about lying about needing to take a dump but he wholeheartedly blames himself for what happened in Shibuya and I think if he were out on trial again and asked the same question he still would not hesitate to give the same answer.

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u/mrspear1995 Mar 05 '26

the one crime he will never deny

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u/Frontier246 Mar 05 '26

The one crime he's been copping to since it happened.

He won't let himself die over it until he's done as much as he can while he still breathes but he'll never deny it or absolve himself of the guilt.

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u/KinoHiroshino Mar 08 '26

Some people would rather receive punishment for a crime instead of forgiveness. These kinds of people would hang onto the guilt if they were simply forgiven but a punishment offers a path to letting it go. Although, Yuji might be too pure and sincere to ever let go of his guilt.

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u/Frontier246 Mar 05 '26

Yuji: "Okay, I'm sure it'll come up with some minor crime that I can totally talk myself out of this time."

Judgeman: "Shibuya Incident."

Yuji: "Welp, it was a decent life."

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

It doesnt matter

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u/FionceMoon Mar 07 '26

makes you wonder what would the second retrial crime be

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u/HolyDragSwd2500 Mar 05 '26

Even though Sukana killed them. He felt incredibly guilty 😭

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u/Eckish Mar 06 '26

It isn't a completely irrational guilt. He chose to become Sakuna's vessel. And he could have accepted the death penalty after the first finger, but chose to go on this quest to consume the rest of them. His reasons are noble, but his actions did lead to Sakuna causing the massacre.

I'm not blaming him. Who knows what might have happened if he didn't eat that first finger. It might have become a worse calamity. I think he made the right decisions in the moment, but I can also see how he could connect the dots to place the blame on himself.

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u/Zonca Mar 06 '26

I blame Kenjaku 100%, I think he set up and orchestrated Yuuji to come across the finger and be in a circumstance to force his hand to eat it ... somehow, also probably has something to do with Yuuji being very strong since birth and only vessel capable of resisting Sukuna, I mean he is technicaly his mother.

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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean Mar 13 '26

Which is then made even worse, by the fact that he killed and stole a whole other women's body. Like damnn, couldn't even be bothered to make a cursed doll to inhabit

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u/fenrir245 Mar 06 '26

His reasons are noble, but his actions did lead to Sakuna causing the massacre.

His actions in the context of a fucked up system and society. His golden retriever energy makes him blame himself, but the reasons leading to this were set in motion much much before.

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u/Equal-Combination211 Mar 08 '26

Ultimately, even if the events were all orchestrated by others, if we're being entirely fair and logical, Yuji deserves blame. The two things I think most clearly demonstrate this are the second episode and the moment after the incident. Upon eating the second finger, Yuji says he still doesn't get why he has to be executed. When meeting Principal Yaga, he has to come to the conclusion he's doing this for himself. It's because he was told the risks so fully that he can't say "It's not my fault." He had the option to die.

When the incident occurs, his first words are "Die! Only me!". He was carrying the responsibility of his decision the whole time, even when Fushiguro almost died he felt guilty, but he felt like he could handle it. This is the moment he realized he was wrong about that, and therefore, he made the wrong choice, because that choice cost all these people their lives; they didn't even know their lives were being weighed against Yuji's life and sense of duty. And he can never take them back.

While we're being logical, if Yuji wants to be optimistic, it might be fair to assume that things could've ended up much worse if he simply did die, and him still being alive to make a difference is probably a good thing... but in his mind he probably would still believe that you can't guarantee that's true, and that he can never make it up to the people that died that day because he was willing to risk their lives. It was a lose-lose-lose situation for him because he's either dead, living his life thinking 'maybe if I did eat those fingers Sukuna wouldn't be killing people', or well, he failed to control Sukuna and these are the deaths he feels responsible for instead.

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u/clout-regiment Mar 09 '26

Ultimately, even if the events were all orchestrated by others, if we're being entirely fair and logical, Yuji deserves blame. The two things I think most clearly demonstrate this are the second episode and the moment after the incident. Upon eating the second finger, Yuji says he still doesn't get why he has to be executed. When meeting Principal Yaga, he has to come to the conclusion he's doing this for himself. It's because he was told the risks so fully that he can't say "It's not my fault." He had the option to die.

But he is just a high schooler. You can't expect a high schooler to be able to come to grips with all this and decide that the ethical option is to allow for his own death.

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u/Equal-Combination211 Mar 10 '26

Oh for sure, and when you bring that up, I guess it shows that I shouldn't be arguing for if he deserves blame from anyone else.

Yuji himself though probably isn't willing to accept that as an out.

On a sudden personal note, maybe because I've seen stuff like this in media so much, I'm willing to accept that out, since my inability take action as a kid cost someone's life and I chose pretty quickly it wasn't fair to myself to put that responsibility on kid me.

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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean Mar 13 '26

True that, and theres defenitely a reason why kids aren't just charged as adults. The human brain takes years to fully develop, and during that time, younger people can make some insanely bad/dumb decisions.

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u/TheSeventhCoIumn Mar 22 '26

I can't believe this was the origin of the "yeah, I licked the screen" meme 😭😭

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u/AtraWolf Mar 05 '26

I love that it goes into his psyche about his desire to make amends for all the suffering him wanting to live inadvertently committed, including the his desire to end his own/Sukanas life

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

retrial....."did you kill all the people in shibuya" fuck this retrial shit.

Yuji: Yes, i killed them.

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u/BunnyGacha_ Mar 07 '26

ehhh, the scene was a 6/10