Jujutsu Kaisen Sequel Confirms Gojo’s Dream Came True — But Only After His Death

It has been a little over a year since Jujutsu Kaisen wrapped and more than two since the series detonated the internet by killing Satoru Gojo. Fans were furious, Gege Akutami caught heat, and yeah, it was brutal. But Gojo saw the writing on the wall and made moves before his showdown with Sukuna to fix the system that kept breaking his students. The new short spin-off, Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, doesn’t flat-out say his plan worked, but it quietly points in that direction. The world he left behind looks different. Not perfect, but different in the ways he was aiming for.

Spoilers ahead for the Shinjuku Showdown arc and Modulo.

Gojo’s actual target wasn’t the monsters

In a world crawling with cursed freakshows, the nastiest threat was never the spirits. It was the bureaucracy. The so-called higher-ups – a government-aligned body acting as judge and legislature for jujutsu society – were the ones locking everything into a fear-driven, archaic loop. They were old-guard conservatives in every sense: rigid rules, knee-jerk paranoia, and a willingness to gamble with innocent lives if it kept their order intact. Sorcerers weren’t choosing this life so much as being sentenced to it.

That rot, the argument goes, helped crack Suguru Geto. The higher-ups deliberately split Gojo and Geto on missions instead of letting the two Special Grades carry the weight together. Then came a preventable death – the source blames a withheld intel call tied to Yu – that they say pushed Geto over the edge. Whether you agree with every beat of that cause-and-effect, the throughline is clear: the institution kept turning people into problems.

Before Shinjuku, Gojo took out the people in charge

Gojo clocked the real enemy early. Remember Yuji’s introduction? The higher-ups tried to get a clueless teenager killed on a mission, gambled with Megumi and Nobara’s lives, and then kept hunting Yuji’s execution like it was a hobby. So when Shinjuku loomed and Gojo knew his odds, he cleaned house. He wrestled with whether it was the right call, then did it anyway: he killed the higher-ups, sparing only Gakuganji, who at least wasn’t chained to the worst traditions and could be trusted to some degree. With Nanami and so many others gone, there wasn’t exactly a deep bench left to shield the kids. Gojo’s ugly solution was about securing their future, even if he wouldn’t be around to see it.

Modulo shows a different jujutsu world (messy, but better)

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo is a short spin-off, and while it has its own escalating clash between humans and Simurians, the backdrop around sorcerers has shifted in very Gojo-coded ways:

• The big-name clans aren’t crushing people for lacking cursed energy like they used to.
• Simple Domains are now standard tools, not rare tricks.
• Knowledge is shared, not hoarded. Access is wider across the board.
• Cross points out that Yuka and Tsurugi Okkotsu are doing the job because they want to. They actually like their lives. They’re not being marched into danger by faceless bosses; they’re choosing their path.

That’s the subtle, important shift: intent. Without Gojo’s last, ruthless play (and his life), this world likely stays locked in the same oppressive loop. Yuka and Tsurugi’s story probably looks a lot grimmer, closer to classic JJK misery. Instead, Modulo’s vibe is freer and more hopeful. Not a utopia, and not finished, but meaningfully less bleak.

So... was Gojo right?

He gambled on drastic action to give the next generation a chance. Modulo suggests the bet paid off. You can argue method all day, but the results are on the page.

Jujutsu Kaisen and Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo are available to read on VIZ Media.