Jujutsu Kaisen Reveals Sukuna’s Defeat Wasn’t Real After Tokyo Fallout
Jujutsu Kaisen’s finale looked like victory—Sukuna dead, Japan saved. But the relief was bait: his death may have granted his true wish, hinting the real threat is only just beginning.
If you walked away from Jujutsu Kaisen thinking Sukuna dying meant Japan was finally in the clear, Modulo is here to smack that optimism out of you. The new spin-off jumps 68 years past the main story and basically says: sure, the King of Curses is gone, but the world he wanted? That part stuck.
Tokyo, 68 Years Later: Not Fixed, Not Even Close
Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo picks up after the final Shinjuku showdown and shows Tokyo in a state that is beyond wrecked. We are talking a long-term, maybe permanent disaster. The city has become a nightmare landscape crammed with Cursed Spirits. Even the Simurians are struggling to settle into Japanese society because the city itself is so broken in the wake of Sukuna's death. So yes, in a very ugly way, his wish came true.
Sukuna Lost the Battle, Won the Point
Think back to when Sukuna first popped into Yuji's body: he wanted control, fear, and chaos. Full stop. During the Shibuya Incident, he literally leveled huge chunks of the city and slaughtered people for sport. Even when Yuji, Nobara, and the rest finally took him down, the damage he left behind was pure despair. That was the point. Make everyone suffer.
Fast-forward to Modulo, and Tokyo has a new name and a new identity: the Inhuman Makyo. It feels like a monument to Sukuna's legacy of terror, the piece of him that refuses to die. Honestly, it reads like he set the board, and even in defeat, the board stayed exactly how he wanted. If you were expecting a tidy happy ending, I doubt that was ever on Gege Akutami's to-do list.
Quick Modulo Facts
- Title: Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo
- Release date: Sep 8, 2025
- Author: Gege Akutami
- Illustrator: Yuuji Iwasaki
- Where to read: Viz Media
Yes, the release date is listed as Sep 8, 2025, and yes, Modulo chapters are running now on Viz. Confusing? A bit. But the story is live, and it is not shy about where things are headed.
Mahito Is Back, Which Means Yuji Is Not Done
Modulo chapter 7 brings Mahito back into the picture, and that pretty much paints a target for a future rematch. Between that return, a pointed comment from Nobara, and a set of flashbacks, the text is doing everything short of blinking neon: Yuji is still out there. And he cannot die, even if he wants to. If that sounds like a curse layered on top of all the other curses, it is.
All of this lines up with what Yuji said to Mahito during their last go-round in Shibuya. It did not feel like dramatic flourish then, and it really does not now:
"I am gonna kill you. Even if you come back as another curse, I will kill you. Change your name. Change your form. I will kill you again. I do not need to find meaning or a reason."
Modulo is treating that like a promise, not a threat. If we are getting a final Yuji vs. Mahito fight, the most poetic place for it is the cursed-spirit-saturated ruins that Tokyo has become. The Inhuman Makyo is a stage built for endings.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo is available to read on Viz Media.