YUJI TOOK GOJO’S THRONE—BUT DID HE BREAK IT?

Gojo Satoru spent much of Jujutsu Kaisen being the strongest person in the room—and, frankly, several rooms next door.
The Limitless. The Six Eyes. Unlimited Void. A face card so powerful it probably counted as a secondary Cursed Technique. Gojo was a one-man imbalance in the jujutsu world, the kind of man who made curses reconsider their career choices before he even lifted a finger.
Then Sukuna killed him.
Gojo’s death in Chapter 236 left behind more than grief. It created an impossible question: who could follow the strongest modern sorcerer?
Yuta Okkotsu had the raw Cursed Energy, Rika, Copy, and the willingness to do things so morally terrifying that Sukuna himself had to pause and offer professional respect. Megumi Fushiguro possessed the Ten Shadows Technique, the very ability that once gave Gojo’s ancestor a fatal rival. Kinji Hakari had his jackpot-fuelled immortality gimmick. Maki Zenin had a body that laughed in the face of Cursed Energy.
But the answer, according to Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, is Yuji Itadori.
Not because Yuji recreated Gojo.
Because he became something else entirely.

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Volume 3, released in Japan on May 1, 2026, reportedly confirms that Yuji carried the title of “The Strongest” in the era after Gojo’s fall. He is also classified as a Special Grade Sorcerer—the same highest-level classification that once contained Gojo, Yuta, Geto, and Yuki Tsukumo.
That title matters, but the way Yuji earns it matters even more.
Gojo’s strength was elegant. It was built on impossible precision: manipulating space, seeing cursed energy in astonishing detail, and using a hereditary combination so rare that it made the rest of the jujutsu world look under-equipped.
Yuji’s strength is different.
It is survival turned into a fighting style.

He began as a boy with almost no connection to jujutsu society. Then he became Sukuna’s vessel, endured death, trained under Gojo, lived through Shibuya, watched friends fall, absorbed the Cursed Wombs, acquired Blood Manipulation, awakened Shrine, and fought the King of Curses until the title “underdog” had to retire from sheer embarrassment.
Now he stands as the successor Gojo entrusted with the future.
Gojo’s own words to Yuji in Chapter 271 hit differently with that knowledge:

That is not Gojo asking Yuji to become another blue-eyed god.
It is Gojo asking him to build a future where one god is no longer necessary.

Yuji’s status is not built on vibes alone—though the man has enough protagonist aura to power a small city.
His arsenal in Modulo is outrageous.

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2. 1. Shrine - Sukuna’s innate technique Yuji inherited, and uses it with advanced control, giving him access to slashing attacks once associated with the King of Curses. 

1. 2. Blood Manipulation - He reportedly mastered it so completely that Modulo presents him as the strongest Blood Manipulation user in Jujutsu Kaisen history.
2. 3. Black Flash - Yuji can land Black Flash with intentional precision rather than treating it like a miraculous accident.
3. 4. Hybrid body - After absorbing the Cursed Wombs, he became part human and part curse, dramatically slowing his aging.
4. 5. Experience - Yuji expects to remain alive for centuries, giving him time to refine his techniques far beyond the lifespan available to most sorcerers.

Now of all Five outrageous toolkit of itadori, the Black Flash mastery may be the most alarming part. Black Flash occurs when cursed energy lands within an extremely tiny window of a physical hit, creating a distortion in space and massively amplifying the impact. Most sorcerers cannot summon it at will. Yuji apparently can.

In Modulo Chapter 20, he tells an opponent:

That is the kind of sentence someone says right before they become a cautionary tale.
The opponent’s reaction sells the precision:

Yuji has gone from throwing hands because he was physically gifted to throwing hands with surgical cursed-energy timing, Sukuna’s technique, and enough force to make the universe issue a workplace-safety warning.
Damn, homeboy—that’s gotta hurt.

Before we begin tossing Yuji a crown made of Black Flash lightning, Yuta Okkotsu remains the giant asterisk in this conversation.
Yuta has always been absurd.
His Cursed Energy reserves were extraordinary from the start. He could copy techniques. He had Rika, a partner whose very presence bends the tone of a fight from “manageable” to “why is this happening to me?” He gained Sukuna’s Shrine through Copy. And after transferring into Gojo’s body during the final battle, it became certain that Limitless was engraved onto Yuta’s brain and returned with him to his original body.
Modulo Chapter 19 also points toward an adult Yuta whose stored Cursed Energy had reached an almost ridiculous level. Maru reacts to the energy inside Rika’s ring by saying:

That Cursed Energy was apparently enough to support an Idle Transfiguration effect across Japan. Say whaaa?
So could prime adult Yuta have equalled Yuji—or even surpassed him for a time?
Absolutely, based on what the article argues.
But Yuta had one limitation that Yuji may not share: mortality.
Yuta eventually succumbed to age after Maki Zenin’s death, while Yuji’s hybrid body allowed him to keep living, training, learning, and accumulating experience. The race between them may have been close. But the race itself did not last equally long.
Because the stronger Yuji gets over centuries, the less the comparison remains a race and the more it becomes a historical event.

Gojo’s dream was never really about someone inheriting his title.
It was about changing the system that produced people like him: sorcerers expected to carry impossible responsibility alone, elders who treated young lives as chess pieces, and a society that depended too heavily on one overwhelmingly powerful man.
Yuji represents a different answer to the same crisis.
He is powerful, yes. Stupidly powerful. Offensive-to-the-laws-of-balance powerful.
But he is also someone shaped by compassion, loss, and an insistence that people should be allowed to live with dignity. His strength did not remove his humanity; it made the stakes of protecting it even heavier.
That distinction is important.
Gojo was isolated because he was the strongest.
Yuji became the strongest because he kept fighting beside people.

GameRant did the original cursed-energy excavation; I simply showed up with the pepper shaker, looked at Yuji’s centuries-long growth potential, and asked the local authorities whether it is legal for one man to have Shrine, Blood Manipulation, Black Flash, and the patience of an immortal. The article’s central point is clear: Modulo frames Yuji as Gojo’s official successor in strength, while Yuta remains the closest serious rival to that claim.

Yuji did not inherit Gojo’s blindfold.
He did not inherit the Six Eyes.
He did not inherit Infinity.
He inherited the future.
And with centuries still ahead, the real question is no longer whether Yuji surpassed Gojo.
It is this: what happens when the strongest sorcerer alive is also the person most determined not to become a god above everyone else?