Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Reveals the Real Reason Gojo Had to Die Against Sukuna

If you have been waiting for Jujutsu Kaisen to actually say out loud why Gojo had to go, the future-set sequel Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo finally rips that Band-Aid off. After years of yelling into the void (and at Gege Akutami), Modulo doesn’t treat Gojo’s death as a tragic coin flip. It frames it like a design choice: the world could not move forward with him still in it.

Gojo vs. Sukuna, reframed

In the original series, Gojo was not just strong; he was the patch notes. Limitless, Six Eyes, that whole Infinity toolkit — every villain suddenly had other plans. Modulo argues that wasn’t just power; it was a problem. With Gojo around, the entire jujutsu ecosystem got soft. Elders stalled out, clans stopped inventing new answers, and rank-and-file sorcerers treated Gojo like a universal fix. Then he got sealed, and the brittle system cracked right down the middle.

Modulo’s future society looks back on that era and basically says: things stopped evolving while Gojo was the safety net. Only when Sukuna beat him did the gears start turning again. The loss isn’t presented as a boring power-scaling result so much as a hard reboot for the world. I kind of love how ruthless that is.

The twist: Yuji is still here, on purpose

Here’s the curveball that hits like a Black Flash: Yuji Itadori is alive centuries later — still young, still hunting curses, still in the story. The series even left the breadcrumb for this a while ago. Back in Chapter 220, Shoko drops a line that Modulo treats as the key to everything:

"Yuji’s body has become steeped in cursed energy."

Between all the Sukuna fingers he swallowed, the Death Painting brothers fused into him, and the fact that Kenjaku engineered him as a vessel in the first place, Yuji’s body effectively turns into a living cursed object. Translation: he basically stops aging.

But unlike Gojo, Yuji refuses to become the new walking fail-safe. Modulo has him go off the grid as a rogue sorcerer, specifically to stop the world from repeating the same dependency spiral. His immortality is the anti-Gojo: he’ll live forever, but he will not let the system build itself around him again.

What Modulo is actually saying

That Gojo vs. Sukuna battle is still peak JJK. Modulo just adds a colder, bigger frame around it. It wasn’t simply the clash of the two strongest — it was the end of an era that needed to end. If Gojo had won, the future would have frozen in place. Because he lost, progress kicked back on. And because Yuji survived the centuries, the next generation never gets to lean on a single unbeatable guardian again.

• Gojo’s overwhelming power made the jujutsu world complacent; once he was sealed, the rot showed.
• Modulo positions his loss to Sukuna as a necessary reset, not just a power ranking result.
• Yuji is biologically quasi-immortal thanks to cursed-energy saturation, Death Painting fusion, Sukuna’s remnants, and Kenjaku’s vessel design.
• He chooses exile over leadership to prevent a new Gojo-style dependency cycle.
• Net effect: Gojo didn’t just die; the world needed him to. Yuji sticks around to make sure history doesn’t loop.

Final thought

It’s a sharp piece of lore that recontextualizes the biggest heartbreak in the series and makes it make sense. Not gentle, but it tracks. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo is up on MANGA Plus if you want to dive in.

Was Gojo’s death necessary for the jujutsu world to grow? Tell me where you land — I’m genuinely curious.