GOJO’S POWER DIED… OR DID IT?
Yuta Okkotsu carried Gojo Satoru’s Limitless into battle, but without the Six Eyes, was he ever truly its next master?
Yuta Okkotsu may have inherited the Limitless, but Jujutsu Kaisen’s own rules make that legacy far messier—and more tragic—than simply crowning a new strongest sorcerer.
The inheritance nobody wanted
There are inheritances that come with houses.
There are inheritances that come with money.
And then there is the Jujutsu Kaisen version, where the estate includes an exhausted corpse, a reality-bending Cursed Technique, an impossible war against Sukuna, and enough emotional trauma to qualify as its own Special Grade.
Gojo Satoru’s death in Chapter 236 did more than remove the strongest modern sorcerer from the battlefield. It created a terrifying vacancy. Gojo was not simply powerful; he was an entire strategic category. His combination of the Limitless and the Six Eyes let him manipulate space at a level no ordinary sorcerer could approach.
He was the first person in roughly 400 years born with both abilities. Which is less “lucky genetic lottery” and more “the universe briefly installed an unfair boss character.”
There are inheritances that come with money.
And then there is the Jujutsu Kaisen version, where the estate includes an exhausted corpse, a reality-bending Cursed Technique, an impossible war against Sukuna, and enough emotional trauma to qualify as its own Special Grade.
Gojo Satoru’s death in Chapter 236 did more than remove the strongest modern sorcerer from the battlefield. It created a terrifying vacancy. Gojo was not simply powerful; he was an entire strategic category. His combination of the Limitless and the Six Eyes let him manipulate space at a level no ordinary sorcerer could approach.
He was the first person in roughly 400 years born with both abilities. Which is less “lucky genetic lottery” and more “the universe briefly installed an unfair boss character.”
So when Yuta Okkotsu appeared in Gojo’s body during the Shinjuku Showdown, every reader understood the desperation of the move.
The strongest had fallen.
The King of Curses was still standing.
And Yuta, having already been cut down by Sukuna’s World-Splitting Dismantle, crossed a line most people would not even dare to imagine.
The strongest had fallen.
The King of Curses was still standing.
And Yuta, having already been cut down by Sukuna’s World-Splitting Dismantle, crossed a line most people would not even dare to imagine.
Yuta borrowed the impossible
Yuta’s arrival in Chapter 261 was one of those moments that makes a fandom collectively sit up, stare at the page, and ask the same deeply healthy question:
“Okay… what exactly did we just witness?”
The answer was brutally simple.
After killing Kenjaku, Yuta gained access to Kenjaku’s body-hopping technique through his Copy ability. Using that technique, he transferred his brain into Gojo’s body, allowing him to fight Sukuna with Gojo’s physical vessel, the Limitless, and the Six Eyes at his disposal.
“Okay… what exactly did we just witness?”
The answer was brutally simple.
After killing Kenjaku, Yuta gained access to Kenjaku’s body-hopping technique through his Copy ability. Using that technique, he transferred his brain into Gojo’s body, allowing him to fight Sukuna with Gojo’s physical vessel, the Limitless, and the Six Eyes at his disposal.
Sukuna’s response captures the extremity of Yuta’s decision:
“I apologize for looking down on you. I didn’t know you were capable of going that far, Yuta Okkotsu!”
That is Sukuna recognising that Yuta had stepped into the same morally ruthless space that monsters like Kenjaku inhabit. Yuta did not merely want to defeat Sukuna. He was prepared to use Gojo’s body as a weapon after Gojo’s death.
Some fans see that as horrifying.
Others see it as unavoidable.
Both reactions can be true, because Jujutsu Kaisen is a series that loves asking whether a person can remain human when the only way to protect people is to do something inhuman.
Yuta’s choice was not clean. It was not noble in the traditional shining-hero sense.
But it was an act of desperate loyalty.
Gojo gave his life trying to stop Sukuna. Yuta refused to let that sacrifice become the end of the fight.
The brain is the cursed-technique vault
The strongest argument that Yuta truly inherited Limitless comes from the manga’s own strange but consistent neurological rulebook.
In Jujutsu Kaisen, a Cursed Technique is not simply attached to someone’s flesh like a tattoo or a fashionable curse accessory. It is engraved in the brain—specifically around the right prefrontal cortex.
Sukuna states it plainly in Chapter 230:
In Jujutsu Kaisen, a Cursed Technique is not simply attached to someone’s flesh like a tattoo or a fashionable curse accessory. It is engraved in the brain—specifically around the right prefrontal cortex.
Sukuna states it plainly in Chapter 230:
“Your cursed technique is etched into your brain. Roughly around the right prefrontal cortex.”
Kenjaku’s actions support that rule. In Chapter 136, he explains that he altered the brains of people across Japan, including non-sorcerers and those who had consumed cursed objects, so they could function as sorcerers:
“The people whom I had ingest cursed objects like Yuji Itadori and the people with cursed techniques whose brains were meant to be non-sorcerers like Junpei and Yoshina. I adjusted their brains for sorcery.”
That makes Yuta’s situation deeply interesting.
When Yuta’s brain inhabited Gojo’s body, Gojo’s Limitless should have become engraved onto Yuta’s brain. If that engraving remained after Yuta returned to his original body, then Yuta did not merely borrow Limitless for a few chapters.
He carried it with him.
The manga’s precedent is Kenjaku himself. During his fight against Yuki Tsukumo, Kenjaku used Kaori Itadori’s Anti-Gravity System despite no longer inhabiting Kaori’s original body. The technique had remained available because it had been retained through his brain-hopping ability.
When Yuta’s brain inhabited Gojo’s body, Gojo’s Limitless should have become engraved onto Yuta’s brain. If that engraving remained after Yuta returned to his original body, then Yuta did not merely borrow Limitless for a few chapters.
He carried it with him.
The manga’s precedent is Kenjaku himself. During his fight against Yuki Tsukumo, Kenjaku used Kaori Itadori’s Anti-Gravity System despite no longer inhabiting Kaori’s original body. The technique had remained available because it had been retained through his brain-hopping ability.
So, by the story’s own cursed biology—or cursed neuroscience, if we are pretending this is a perfectly normal sentence—Yuta may indeed have taken Limitless back with him.
But the Six Eyes are the cruel catch
The Limitless is not the whole package.
Gojo’s terrifying mastery depended on the Limitless and the Six Eyes. The two are separate inherited traits.
Here comes the issue large enough to make every Limitless inheritance party immediately stop the music.
A sorcerer can theoretically possess Limitless without the Six Eyes, but using the technique effectively without the Six Eyes is extraordinarily difficult, perhaps practically impossible at Gojo’s level.
The series makes this clear during the Shinjuku Showdown:
The series makes this clear during the Shinjuku Showdown:
Kusakabe: “Can you not just copy Limitless from Satoru’s corpse?”
Shoko: “It’s not possible to use Limitless properly without the Six Eyes.”
That one exchange turns the supposed inheritance into something much sadder.
Yuta could have retained the Limitless technique itself. Yet there is little reason to think the Six Eyes moved with his brain when he left Gojo’s body. The Six Eyes are tied to Gojo’s unique physical and hereditary makeup, not merely a Cursed Technique that can be copied and stored.
So Yuta may have inherited the key to a vault without inheriting the hands needed to turn it.
He could possess one of the most broken abilities in the series while lacking the specific trait required to use it properly. That is the kind of cosmic joke Jujutsu Kaisen would absolutely tell with a straight face.
“Congratulations, you inherited infinity.”
“Can I use it?”
“Don’t be greedy.” Bruvha whaaa?? O_o
Yuta could have retained the Limitless technique itself. Yet there is little reason to think the Six Eyes moved with his brain when he left Gojo’s body. The Six Eyes are tied to Gojo’s unique physical and hereditary makeup, not merely a Cursed Technique that can be copied and stored.
So Yuta may have inherited the key to a vault without inheriting the hands needed to turn it.
He could possess one of the most broken abilities in the series while lacking the specific trait required to use it properly. That is the kind of cosmic joke Jujutsu Kaisen would absolutely tell with a straight face.
“Congratulations, you inherited infinity.”
“Can I use it?”
“Don’t be greedy.” Bruvha whaaa?? O_o
Was Yuta ever Gojo’s successor?
The answer depends on what “successor” means.
Yuta was unquestionably one of Gojo’s most important students. He was a Special Grade, a prodigy whose Copy ability and bond with Rika put him in a class few sorcerers could touch. He also became the head of the Gojo Clan, placing him in the clearest possible position to carry Gojo’s institutional legacy.
Yuta was unquestionably one of Gojo’s most important students. He was a Special Grade, a prodigy whose Copy ability and bond with Rika put him in a class few sorcerers could touch. He also became the head of the Gojo Clan, placing him in the clearest possible position to carry Gojo’s institutional legacy.
But being Gojo’s successor does not mean becoming Gojo 2.0.
And perhaps that was never the point.
Gojo’s dream was not to create another version of himself. He wanted to raise a generation of sorcerers capable of surpassing the old structure that had failed them. Yuji, Yuta, Maki, Megumi, Hakari, Nobara, and the others were meant to become something stronger together than one invincible man standing alone.
Yuta’s use of Gojo’s body makes this painfully literal. He was not replacing Gojo. He was carrying the last piece of Gojo’s strength into a battle the older sorcerer could not finish.
That is different.
It is grimmer.
And it is probably more meaningful.
GameRant handled the original lore excavation; I merely arrived with the cursed pepper shaker, stared at the brain-swap mechanics, and asked whether inheritance law in the jujutsu world requires an exorcist, a lawyer, or both. The source’s central reading—that Yuta’s brain could retain Limitless after returning to his own body—follows the rules the manga establishes through Kenjaku and Sukuna.
And perhaps that was never the point.
Gojo’s dream was not to create another version of himself. He wanted to raise a generation of sorcerers capable of surpassing the old structure that had failed them. Yuji, Yuta, Maki, Megumi, Hakari, Nobara, and the others were meant to become something stronger together than one invincible man standing alone.
Yuta’s use of Gojo’s body makes this painfully literal. He was not replacing Gojo. He was carrying the last piece of Gojo’s strength into a battle the older sorcerer could not finish.
That is different.
It is grimmer.
And it is probably more meaningful.
GameRant handled the original lore excavation; I merely arrived with the cursed pepper shaker, stared at the brain-swap mechanics, and asked whether inheritance law in the jujutsu world requires an exorcist, a lawyer, or both. The source’s central reading—that Yuta’s brain could retain Limitless after returning to his own body—follows the rules the manga establishes through Kenjaku and Sukuna.
A legacy heading for extinction
The broader tragedy is that the Limitless may not even have a future to pass on.
The source points to Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, where Chapter 24 reportedly establishes that Yuji Itadori and Maru’s actions have erased Cursed Energy from future generations in Japan.
If Cursed Energy is gone, new Cursed Techniques cannot emerge in the same way. The Limitless, the Six Eyes, and countless other inherited abilities would eventually disappear as their remaining users die.
Yuji’s stated resolve is enormous and frightening:
“I’m going to live for another 300 or so years. I will handle whatever follows. And if necessary, I’ll bear the consequences of this great sin.”
If that future holds, then Gojo may truly have been the last great master of the Limitless.
Yuta may have briefly become its final carrier.
But he was never meant to become Gojo’s replacement.
Because nobody was.
The Limitless was Gojo Satoru’s burden, blessing, prison, and absurdly unfair combat toolkit. Yuta’s legacy is different: he showed that love, resolve, and a willingness to make impossible choices can carry a fallen teacher’s will forward—even when the power itself is fading into history.
And perhaps that is the actual inheritance.
Not Infinity.
Not the Six Eyes.
But the refusal to stop fighting when the strongest person in the room is gone.
Yuta may have briefly become its final carrier.
But he was never meant to become Gojo’s replacement.
Because nobody was.
The Limitless was Gojo Satoru’s burden, blessing, prison, and absurdly unfair combat toolkit. Yuta’s legacy is different: he showed that love, resolve, and a willingness to make impossible choices can carry a fallen teacher’s will forward—even when the power itself is fading into history.
And perhaps that is the actual inheritance.
Not Infinity.
Not the Six Eyes.
But the refusal to stop fighting when the strongest person in the room is gone.
— D' ForgottenBlade_Ace
Primal Misfit Overlord| The Glitch ;-)
For more on the post-Gojo era, with manga spoilers, see Yuji’s place in the post-Gojo era.
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