Jujutsu Kaisen Undercuts Megumi With a Fight That Should Already Be Over
Warning: spoilers ahead for Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 189!
One of Megumi Fushiguro's greatest moments in Jujutsu Kaisen was just undercut during the latest Culling Game fight between Kinji Hakari and the ancient sorcerer Hajime Kashimo — a battle that should have ended long ago.
Already an ambitious undertaking, the Culling Game arc has been forcing Jujutsu Kaisen to introduce a plethora of new enemies for the story's cast of jujutsu sorcerers to ostensibly battle to the death, as they desperately try to acquire new points to save Megumi's sister. But creator Gege Akutami took quite a risk in having the last two fights involve opponents who are almost, if not completely, new characters. And just when the series could have finally brought the focus back to either Yuji, Megumi or Yuta, it instead elongated the second battle between Kashimo and Hakari while simultaneously diminishing one of Megumi's greatest victories.
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When the ancient sorcerer Kashimo dealt a fatal blow to his opponent Hakari during Hakari's second battle, fans believed that Hakari was finally finished. Hakari first began fighting Kashimo after successfully attaining over four minutes of invincibility from his Domain Expansion that he unleashed against his previous opponent Charles Bernard. Hakari later unlocked another bout of invincibility when he summoned his Domain Expansion for the first time against Kashimo (the second time overall). He managed to bring back his Domain Expansion yet again against Kashimo for a third time, which healed the blow that had seemed so definitive. Although this elongated an already lengthy battle, readers learn in chapter 189 of Jujutsu Kaisen
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