Hello everyone! I wanted to write an appreciation post for one of my favorite characters of all time, and my root for the upcoming Death Battle…

Yuji Itadori!

Originally, I was really struggling on how to write out this post, since I’m not super good at character analyses. However, I still wanted to talk about why I like Yuji in anticipation for the episode, so this’ll be a a somewhat organized summary of Yuji’s character and what I like about him lol

About Jujutsu Kaisen

Anime is a relatively recent interest of mine, and I only really started getting into anime a few years ago when I first started watching JJK because one of my friends was really into it at the time.

I was pretty much immediately hooked onto the series. The power system was really interesting and the fights looked very cool, but most importantly, I just fell in love with the main cast. Megumi, Yuta, Maki, Gojo, Sukuna, and Choso are all characters who I hold very closely to my heart and I love seeing them. My favorite character of the series though is the protagonist himself; Yuji Itadori.

First on the surface level, I think Yuji is just a really endearing character. At the start of the series, Yuji’s someone who’s just brimming with positivity. He’s definitely a bit simple, but he has a very likable and fun personality. I think the most interesting part of him at the start of the series though is him trying to cling to his morals, despite the world of jujutsu trying to push him otherwise.

Jujutsu Kaisen’s world is one which rewards selfishness, caring only about oneself and trampling over others for your own whims - which is embodied by Sukuna. Yuji’s the polar opposite though. He’s always looking out for others, always trying to avoid killing people, and his overall goal is to lead everyone to a good death.

People like Sukuna and Mahito try pushing him again and again, breaking him down physically and mentally because of his ideals essentially spitting in their faces. This leads into the Shibuya Incident, where Yuji’s completely broken down from the loss of Nobara, Nanami, and all of the people who were massacred by Sukuna.

This guilt weighs heavily down on him, which ultimately breaks apart Yuji’s worldview - and his previous convictions are transformed into a cog mentality. Yuji believes that his life ultimately holds little value on its own, and his only purpose now is to kill curses until the day he dies, serving as only just a part of the wider jujutsu system.

Yuji carries his cog mindset throughout the Culling Games and into Shinjuku Showdown, until his convictions are ultimately wavered from the death of his brother Choso sacrificing his life in order to save him. He later achieves his Domain Expansion during the climax of the battle, and attempts to reach out to Sukuna one last time where he has my favorite moment in the series.

“Until recently… I thought life was about understanding your role and trying to fulfill it. If I had died doing that, then I could say I died a good death. But now I don’t think that’s right. Just walking your dog and raising a family are also decent roles. And even if all you do is eat and poop, or lie sick in bed, or don’t connect with anyone and end up leaving nothing behind… Instead of memories giving form to your life, small fragments of memory are out there anyway, floating around and giving your life value.”

I think Yuji trying to show Sukuna the value of human life is really cool, and I really love seeing him grow from both his original lofty goals of giving everyone a good death, and also his broken cog mindset of just finding out what your role is and sticking to it until you die. I think Yuji’s outlook on life is just very uplifting, and it’s something which I really resonate with as someone who generally loves stories which touch on these themes like one of my favorite games - Persona 3 - for example.

Later during the next chapter though, Yuji speaks to Megumi inside of his soul and delivers another monologue which I think is just as resonating.

“Gramps’ sickness started as lung cancer. He rejected treatment early on because the side effects were so harsh. I’m strong, so I didn’t understand the idea of refusing treatment for that reason. Euthanasia too. That was a concept completely foreign to me. I might’ve been able to endure his treatment, but he must’ve been suffering. But after going through what we went through at Jujutsu High… And thinking of those horrors as being never-ending… I’ve come to understand how people like gramps felt like when confronting harsh reality. So… I guess I have no right to tell you… That you have to live, Fushiguro. It’s just… It’ll be lonely without you around.”

Yuji’s dialogue to Megumi is probably the most emotionally engaging part of his character for me, and embodies the aspect of him which I find the most endearing; his empathy. Yuji’s someone who deeply cherishes the value of human life, but he’s also someone who deeply understands the weight which pain can have on someone. Him reaching out to Megumi and not trying to force him to keep living, but just to empathize with him and all of the suffering he’s went through, is incredibly touching and I find this and the previous chapter being Yuji’s best moment in the series.

That’s pretty much why I love Yuji so much. On top of Jujutsu Kaisen just being a really special series to me, Yuji himself is just a very human character who I think carries uplifting messages with him and also makes me happy to read and watch - which is why he’s one of my favorite characters of all time.

About Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo

Yuji’s role in the main series is why I love him so much, but I also really like his role in Modulo so I’m gonna be talking a little bit about the series too!

I really love JJK Modulo! Again, I’m a pretty recent anime/manga fan, so Modulo was the first ever manga which I read from its start to end in real-time. I think that all of the major new characters from Yuka and Tsurugi, to Maru and Cross, and Dabura, were all very great additions to the series and I enjoy them all a lot! But this post is about Yuji, so I’m gonna talk about him here.

During Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, 68 years after the events of Jujutsu Kaisen, Yuji is revealed to have become immortal - likely due to consuming the Death Paintings - and has outlived a majority of his old friends, including his best friend Megumi. This led to Yuji entering a depressive era of his life, as he isolated himself from the fear of losing his friends.

Yuji tried to justify his isolation with the ideology of his former sensei Gojo, who wished for the new generation to not be held back by the past, and be able to carve their own future. It was during this isolation, however, that he’d meet Maru - a Simurian wishing for coexistence between his and Earth’s people. With Maru’s help, Yuji was able to achieve a dream which he had given up on decades ago; stopping the cycle of cursed spirits at large.

After Maru completes the biggest step in this plan in the Ritual of Harmony, Yuji changes his outlook on his isolation and returns to Nobara with new convictions - wishing to spend his remaining centuries alive looking after the world, and making sure they’re prepared for any issue which may rise up again in the distant future.

I really like Yuji’s role in Modulo personally, and I think it’s a cool progression of his character from JJK while giving him an interesting arc to go on - despite the obviously short length of Modulo. I also really like how Yuji’s story comes full circle in the end with him being motivated by his grandpa’s words to help others, as well as planning to turn himself into a cursed object after his death which parallels Sukuna himself.

About Yuji vs Denji

This is gonna be the final section of this post, and I want to talk about why I love Yuji vs Denji so much in relation to why I love Yuji! Primarily, I think that this matchup brings out the best in Yuji’s character. (Not in comparison to all of his other matchups, but it’s one which really excels in it imo)

Denji is a person who’s gone through so much trauma and suffering in his life, beyond even what Yuji’s been through. I think that the emotional story potential of the matchup, and Yuji trying to reach out to and empathize with Denji, really highlights my favorite aspect of Yuji’s character in showing his humanity to a character who desperately needs it after everything he’s been through in his series.

I love both Yuji and Denji a lot, but I’ll always stick with Yuji Itadori. I’m more than fine with Denji winning, and I actually think he wins debate-wise, but I still really hope that Yuji wins the Death Battle regardless… Or at the very least, that Yuji gets a great and respectful portrayal on the show.

I absolutely can’t wait for the episode!

Another note that this isn’t about the debate! I’m asking purely from a fight / animation standpoint.

If you were to include the Devil Pawns in the fight, how would you incorporate them in? I think that they’re a really cool aspect of Denji’s arsenal and are most likely the only way you can portray the erasure part of Pochita’s powers without having him eat a random devil nearby or something. His erasure powers are pretty iconic to him, so I think letting him eat the Devil Pawns are a good way to do so.

I think that you could have Denji (or Pochita if he’s unleashed) eat the Devil Pawns to start controlling the flow of the fight and throw Yuji way off. As an example of my own, in my fight script, Pochita ate the Gravity Devil pawn and led to the fight resuming in a zero gravity setting, until Yuji punched Pochita hard enough for him to spit the pawn back out.

Personally, I don’t think that the Devil Pawns should be used as the deciding factor of the fight, but I’d like them to be a mid-fight obstacle for Yuji to deal with and probably force Denji to spit back up.

How would you guys incorporate the pawns?

LETS GOOOOOO!!! I really hope somebody posts the sneak peek somewhere if possible, I’M SO EXCITED YEEAAAHHHH EARLY SNEAK PEEK!!!

I’m pretty sure that they’re going to include the Hero of Hell form in the fight before Denji turns into Denji Man, so I’m wondering how they would use it since Pochita’s activation has specific conditions.

Personally, I think I’d say that Yuji’s soul punches and dismantles would sever the contract between Denji and Pochita during the fight, which causes Pochita to automatically take over and continue fighting Yuji until they re-connect later on to fuse into Denji Man for the climax.

How would you guys incorporate Pochita in?

Obviously, Death Battle was gonna do Yuji vs Denji eventually, it’s too big of a matchup for them not to do. I just didn’t really think about it

I’m super excited for the episode of course, but I’m wondering about how I’ll feel afterwards regardless of the episode’s quality. Most of my passion for Death Battle matchups comes from Yuji vs Denji, which is why I’ve made so much for it. So once the episode drops, I’ll probably need to find a new matchup to super care about. Maybe I’ll become a JunkoTrap shill or something lol

Has anybody else ever had one of their most wanteds finally turned into an episode? How did you guys feel about it when it finally released?

This is the third time that they’ve used Black Flash speed scaling for JJK, I’m really shocked to learn that people thought Yuji was being put at Mach 3

Like, I’d understand the contention if they used EM Wave scaling for Yuji, I understand that that’s not widely accepted. But they’ve used MHS JJK for both Gojo and Mahito, if you thought they were going to use Supersonic JJK speed I think you were setting yourself up lol

Personally I think Black Flash speed scaling is valid for Yuji, not that it really matters much since I also think Denji is faster still. But I’m just very surprised to see an uproar about a speed feat which they’ve already used twice before for the verse

Parrot is pretty much becoming just like Lettuce now. They’re both leaders with good intentions for helping the server, but they end up doing a lot of bad things to achieve their goals

>!In the new video, Parrot was even willing to stoop to torture to get information out of that Cindercrest soldier (obviously it’s just Minecraft, and tactically it was a necessary decision, but these are things I’d expect from Lettuce honestly)!<

Especially with how bad of a position Parrot is in right now after >!Highwater was taken over!<, I think he may need to return to Lettuce again in a moment of desperation for his help or advice

Small daily post for today, I added Himadori and Dennis into Tomodachi Life. Currently they’re both good friends with each other :D

I’m super excited for Yuji’s preview tomorrow!

I’m honestly not sure what I want the set-up to be now. Originally, back when Modulo wasn’t out, I thought that it’d make the most sense for Jujutsu High to send Yuji after Denji while assuming he’s a curse - OR like in my fight script, maybe Yuji could be sent after someone like Yoru, and Denji would be sent by her to take out Yuji first.

This doesn’t really work with Modulo though, since Yuji is off-grid during the series and doesn’t really work with Jujutsu HQ anymore. Off the top of my head, I think that you could flip the scenario around - maybe Denji is the one sent after Yuji at the start by Yoru (or Fumiko, he has some options) since they might see him as a threat to their goals.

I don’t have a super long idea for what the set-up could be, though. What do you guys have in mind?

This is genuinely my most wanted matchup of all time, for two characters I really adore, for two of my favorite series ever. I really hope that the community doesn’t ruin this waiting period, especially for a match which I’m super passionate about…

Did I expect this type of waiting period? A bit, yeah. The JJK community is pretty much known for their slander, and the Chainsaw Man community isn’t too far behind. But that doesn’t mean I need to like it, lol. The waiting period for this matchup was the only thing which I wasn’t looking forward to, and seeing the community nosedive into toxicity and an “us vs them” mentality has been really disappointing.

For the record, this isn’t about playful slander done in jest. That’s fine, I expect that from every waiting period. But it seems like a lot of the slander here is genuine, and there’s also been a lot of messed up stuff said (mostly from Yuji fans) like that one guy who called Denji a r*pist. What the hell?

It just makes me really sad as someone who’s so excited for the episode, and I wish we just had a bit more positivity in this place. I LOVE Yuji Itadori, and I love JJK - and I even like the ending too. I also love Denji, and I love Chainsaw Man - especially Part 2.

I really hope that over the next few weeks of the waiting period, the community is able to get their act together and return to good faith discussions, since I know that we are capable of that.

Sorry for the serious Yuji vs Denji post today, I just wanted to drop this since a lot of people have been complaining about this waiting period a lot. I’ll be re-focusing back onto everything I’m excited for in the episode in the future daily Yuji vs Denji posts.

The most talked about category of Yuji vs Denji’s debate is definitely the immense speed edge which Denji holds over him. While I do believe that Denji definitively takes the speed advantage, as well as believing in a Denji win in general, I wanted to write a note about Yuji’s speed since it might be relevant to the discussion. Specifically, the attack speed of Yuji’s dismantles.

Denji’s commonly agreed FTL speed comes from the feat of him dodging the Flag Spear at the end of the battle with Yoru, where she turned the American Flag into a spear which flew down from the Moon to Earth in a short time frame. I’ve seen multiple values for this feat, but generally the value I’ve seen for the feat is a little over baseline FTL at 1.25c.

Yuji’s speed is much more contentious than Denji’s. In this community I’ve largely seen two camps on placing Yuji’s speed; people who believe in Massively Hypersonic+ Yuji (>Mach 982 scaling from Black Flash timing), and people who believe in Relativistic Yuji (0.13c scaling from Sukuna dodging EM Waves). If you believe in MHS+ Yuji, then this post won’t really change much for you lol

However, if you believe in Relativistic Yuji - which I have seen as a solid high end by people in this community including myself - then this note might be a bit interesting for the debate. Although Yuji himself only scales to around 13% of the speed of light, the speed of his dismantles are far faster than his own. This can be seen across the series, as Sukuna’s dismantles are always portrayed as moving much faster than himself and crossing distances almost instantly.

From the 0.13c speed value calculation, the speed of dismantle is also calculated to be around a little over 1.23c - which is right around Denji’s own speed value. If you accept this value for the speed of Yuji’s dismantles, then even if Yuji himself is still slower then Denji, the speed, range, and spammability of his dismantles give Yuji a viable counter against Denji’s own immense speed edge.

To answer a few questions…

Shouldn’t Denji still be able to dodge Yuji’s dismantles regardless?

Yeah, he should. Even using the 1.23c value for Yuji’s dismantles, Denji is very slightly faster - and you obviously don’t need to be as fast as an attack in order to dodge it. Maki was able to avoid Sukuna’s World Cutting Slash, but she’s evidently not FTL and likely just used her enhanced senses.

Still, due to how spammable Yuji’s dismantles are as seen in Modulo, Denji needing to constantly dodge hundreds of invisible slashes flying across the city just as fast as he moves is a much bigger hurdle for him compared to if the slashes were, say, 10x slower than Denji like Yuji himself is.

Doesn’t this only apply to the World Cutting Slash, which Yuji doesn’t have access to?

The World Cutting Slash is not especially different from Sukuna’s regular slashes, with the only real difference being the difference in its target. The World Cutting Slash is able to slice through space itself, while regular dismantles just slice through whatever’s in their path physically.

In terms of its other properties like its speed, the world cutting dismantles and regular dismantles are never noted to have a difference - and realistically, they shouldn’t have any real stat differences, given that they’re ultimately both just dismantles.

One argument which you could make against regular dismantles scaling off of the World Cutting Slash’s speed, though, is that Sukuna needs to use incantations in order to release it - with incantations also being used to amplify cursed techniques.

While this is true, Sukuna needs to use incantations to use the World Cutting Slash specifically because of a Binding Vow which he created. Incantations are also used for just activating other techniques in the series such as barrier techniques, so you’d have to just assume that the incantations for the World Cutting Slash also passively amplify its output which isn’t really stated anywhere.

Even if you did assume such though, incantations only boost cursed techniques by 120% of their output. If you downscaled the speed of regular dismantles from the World Cutting Slash speed value, they’d still be FTL at a little over 1.02c. This value is a bit slower than Denji’s 1.25c value, but would still be fast enough to give him some trouble on top of their spammability and range.

Doesn’t this contradict Dabura’s sub-light speed?

Not really. The reason why Dabura could never move at light speed before was because his body couldn’t withstand the acceleration of it, which we see in the next chapter when Dabura’s leg fries itself from kicking at light speed.

An invisible slash of energy wouldn’t have this problem, since there’s no body to burn up in the first place. This should follow the same logic as Dabura’s light attacks being implied to move at light speed themselves from the same statement.

Quick note that I’m not trying to scale Yuji’s speed to Dabura’s speed here, just that his dismantles moving at FTL speeds wouldn’t contradict Dabura explicitly moving at relativistic speeds at all.

Conclusion

If you believe in Yuji’s dismantles being able to scale to FTL speeds, then they could be a significant hurdle for Denji to overcome even if you believe that he’s much faster than Yuji himself. The speed of Yuji’s dismantles, on top of the wide range and AOE nature which he can use them in, could be a potential counter against a blitz from Denji.

Again, this isn’t an argument for a Yuji win. I think that Denji has other factors in his favor on top of his speed edge still being really good in this debate, but I thought it would be interesting to note down here as something in Yuji’s favor. Of course, if you also believe in higher speed values for Denji like him scaling to Yoru’s 84.8c summoning speed - although I personally don’t - then that tips the scales way more heavily into Denji’s favor lol

I was going to write up an appreciation post for Yuji today, but I woke up a bit late and I wanted some more time to write it so I’m pushing it off for now.

What type of death are you looking for in Yuji vs Denji? Do you want a more respectful, somber type of death? Or do you want a violent / brutal death?

Personally, I’d really appreciate a more respectful death for both Yuji and Denji. I know that it’s a Death Battle, and that there’s been a lot of pushback from the community recently about not every Death Battle needing a respectful ending… But here, I feel like the matchup sorta warrants it imo.

Both Yuji and Denji are two people who have went through a lot of suffering, with Denji specifically never being able to escape his own self-destructive tendencies up until Pochita forced him to. I feel like having a gorey or gratuitous death for either of them just wouldn’t feel right for the kinds of people that they are, even if their source materials do feature a lot of violence and brutality already.

This isn’t to say that I don’t think there should be gore or violence in the episode. Hell, Denji uses chainsaws as his main weapon, so obviously if he wins he’s gonna have to use them lol. But I think there’s a difference between a highly gratuitous death like Denji splitting Katana Man in half, and a more respectful death like Denji impaling Aki.

Both of them are Denji ripping his chainsaws through someone, but the first one is excessively violent because Katana Man is frankly an asshole and deserved it… While Aki’s death, although he was shredded through, was done with a lot more taste and somberness in the narrative.

This isn’t to say that Denji would care about Yuji anywhere near as much as he does with Aki, but it’s not like Denji’s an evil person or anything. I don’t see him really going out of his way to kill Yuji in a hyper brutal fashion, especially if he knows that Yuji’s also suffered a lot… Which is my other point.

My favorite aspect of Yuji (which I’ll talk about in my appreciation post for him) is his empathy. By the end of the story, Yuji is someone who cares so deeply for life while also understanding how heavy pain can feel on someone’s shoulders. My #1 hope for the episode is that the fight portrays this by having Yuji try to relate to Denji and comfort him, which would show the most interesting traits of both characters imo - Yuji’s deep empathy for others, and Denji’s struggles with his trauma.

No matter who wins, I’d like to see a respectful death for the other. If you really want to, you CAN go crazy with the death and have Denji shred into Yuji or have Yuji slice up Denji with his domain, but I’d at least want it accompanied with a somber feeling or bittersweet dialogue from the winner.

What do you guys think, though?

I’m absolutely rooting for Yuji, but both Yuji and Denji are some of my favorite characters ever and I really love both Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man

Most people here seem to only like one of the two series or characters, so I was wondering if there was anyone else here who really likes both of em?

I was going to make today’s question about the death for Yuji vs Denji, but that seems to be a hotly debated topic already so I figured I’d post some more fan content instead.

This is my Yuji vs Denji script which I posted at the end of last year! This was written during the middle of Modulo, so the Yuji featured is just OG JJK Yuji. A lot of the stuff which I’m hoping to see in the real episode is in here, so I hope you also enjoy it!

Hopefully I’m allowed to post this here…

Link here: https://bonniethewiitchblogs.blogspot.com/2025/12/bonnies-blogs-yuji-vs-denji-jujutsu.html

This is just a hypothetical. If you’re a Yuji supporter and Denji wins, what results could Death Battle have for you to agree with that making sense? If you’re a Denji supporter, same question but vice versa.

Let me explain.

I don’t think that Denji is *cheating* a victory, or that he’ll unfairly win just because his series is 0-2. I also know that Power Rangers was 0-3 before Jason beat Leonardo, so it’s not an unseen thing of a series on Death Battle having an 0-3 record…

However, I’m not really sure. Power Rangers *did* go 0-3 before Leo vs Jason, but their 3rd loss was all the way back in Season 6. It’s also the only occurrence of a series ever going 0-3, and they were immediately given a win 10 episodes later.

Chainsaw Man is currently 0-2, and their 2nd loss was just two episodes ago. I know that Yuji vs Denji is debatable so a Denji win would be justified, but that’s also part of my reasoning too. I think because of how debatable the matchup is, and with CSM being 0-2, there’s just a greater chance of them choosing to side with the logic of a Denji win rather than deciding to side with Yuji.

I do think Denji wins for the record, and I am betting on him, but I’d also be lying if I said that part of my bet wasn’t because I just don’t really see Death Battle giving Chainsaw Man another loss to send them to 0-3 so soon after another loss.

But what do you guys think?

I’m planning on hopefully making a few more pieces of art before the episode drops! I really love Yuji vs Denji, so I wanna make the most out of the waiting period before the big day comes.

If only today was the Yuji preview… No question for today, I just wanted to post some fanart for Yuji vs Denji instead! Admittedly, I had really high goals for this waiting period, and I wanted to draw an art piece every single day leading up to the episode.

I don’t think that’s super achievable though. I’m in a little bit of an art block right now, and I might burn myself out trying to crank out art every single day… I still plan on hopefully making a few more pieces of art for this waiting period, though!

Yuji vs Denji is my #1 most wanted Death Battle of all time, and now that it’s finally here, I really want to make the most out of the waiting period and engage with everyone to properly convey my love for the matchup before the episode drops.

I saw an awesome post about Left Right Man and wanted to spread the news here

Not about Skill or Battle IQ since I wanna talk about some stuff other than the debate lol, I saw a joke of this a while back so bringing it up here

Who’s academically smarter between Yuji and Denji? This is about their math, reading, etcetera, just the common core curriculum.

Also I was gonna make today’s post about the Yuji preview, but then I remembered that the first week is a break week… Oh well :(