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Gojo Satoru: The Strongest Shaman in Jujutsu Kaisen (A Character Study)
Jujutsu Kaisen is one of my favorite mangas because of its complex character writing. One of the characters that strike me is Gojo Satoru, the strongest in the series. Beyond his overpowered archetype, there& #39;s a lot of things about him that stands out to me.
Gojo is blessed and forced to become the cause of disrupting the balance of the world. His existence as the embodiment of enlightenment clashes with the concept of the bleak nature of the curses, which makes him a natural weapon to eradicate curses.
The constant conditioning of this sentiment contribute to his short-sightedness in everything else but his self-indulgent be-all and end-all strength.
What amazes me about Gege’s characterizing of him is that he is shown to be continuously undefeated and unaffected until it collapsed under a parting relationship with his best friend.
It peels off so many layers in his character because Gojo is not known to be the ‘emotional’ one in the series, he’s pretty much inhumane.
The fact that his consistent, unaffected demeanor as the strongest shaman is deterred by Geto and have him being as one of his current drive causes brings a novelty to his character’s execution as an overpowered one.
Gojo having the six eyes meant that he navigates through reality being fully ‘awoke’ at all times, all space and ‘time’ is visible in his view, he sees everything clearly.
The only time ever the concept of time froze in the brink of his mind is when Geto is brought up, just shows the scale of how profoundly significant he is to him in the story.
Makes us think that it is deeply risky for the world of jujutsu to have someone close to be with, as that can be used as a weak point for even the strongest. It brings weight to Gojo& #39;s philosophy, "no matter what, you& #39;ll always die alone."
After the turning point in Inventory Arc, we can see that he progressed to now have a clear goal on how he can make use of his ability. Although he is very individualistic at the core and gives advice as far as to do things alone to die victoriously, -
underneath it all, he wishes and hopes to achieve for a collective group of strong individuals, for the better of the shaman society. Perhaps this is one of his ways to utilize a more human side of him.
Another interesting thing I like about Gojo is his abilities. Gojo’s techniques were introduced and unfold in very interesting ways, although there’s a lot more about his abilities that we have yet to know.
Aside from pulling out eye candy battles, it also reinforces the complexity of his character through the symbolization of his eyes represents.
With Gojo being disconnected from everyone in the echelon of his spirituality and strength, instead of growing to become more in tuned and ‘humanizing’ himself with them, which is undeniably inevitable, -
we get to see how a self-absorbed shaman changes from someone who progressively revalidates his sense of strength solely for himself to being altruistic in terms of his ability’s purpose.
Before, Gojo uses his power entirely for the fun and games of his own self-interest, dismissing the value of people’s lives. But slowly, we see how him using his powers for his new goal changes how he ‘adapts’ to the environment.
When his goals shifted, he began to value the lives of his students for the future of jujutsu, this route pushes him to become at least more altruistic to the society than he is before.
Since his goals and growth has been depended on the external (abolishing the current jujutsu system by raising strong students and having to relive back his relationship to Geto), -
I think Gojo will be involved in more conflicting situations later, which can result in more depth to his character as the plot progresses.
