Warning: Contains manga spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen.

Summary

• Gojo Satoru is the strongest Jujutsu sorcerer with a complex personality and lineage.
• His powers include the Infinity, Blue, and Red, as well as the devastating Hollow Purple.
• Gojo's death paves the way for younger sorcerers to shine, leaving behind a legacy unmatched for a thousand years.

Jujutsu Kaisen does an incredible job with all of its characters, but Gojo Satoru is a special case. Being directly inspired by the iconic Kakashi Hatake from Naruto, Gojo has managed to steal the spotlight more than once. Within the series, Gojo Satoru is well-renowned for his status of being the strongest Jujutsu sorcerer in the world. Despite this, he's not just another one-note, over-powered hero – in fact, Gojo is an incredibly deep character with a lot going on under the surface.

Born to the Gojo Clan, Gojo's mere existence has driven away powerful curses simply out of fear for having to face him head-on.

He is an enigma, as people often mistake him for a selfless hero – which he's capable of – but Gojo's particular brand of heroism in Jujutsu Kaisen is far more nuanced than he lets on.

Who Is Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen?

Why Gojo is so Important to the Series' World and Plot

Gojo is a Jujutsu sorcerer and teacher at Tokyo Jujutsu High. He's also known for being the strongest sorcerer alive and is usually traveling around Japan and the world eliminating powerful enemies. As the figurehead of the prestigious Gojo Clan, in addition to his other feats, Satoru happens to be a descendant of the powerful Michizane Sugawara, a mighty sorcerer from hundreds of years ago during the Golden Age of Jujutsu.

Yuta Okkotsu is also a descendant of Michizane Sugawara as well, making him and Gojo distant relatives.

Gojo possesses a complex personality. He appears to be very kind when it comes to his students and other individuals that he respects – cracking jokes and teasing them. However, his attitude can shift easily to bitterness, especially towards the old leaders of Jujutsu society who have gotten in his way many times and even tried killing one of his students Yuji Itadori.

He works hard to foster the future generation of sorcerers by teaching and recruiting promising students such as Fushiguro Megumi, Itadori Yuju, Yuta Okkotsu, and Hakari. In order to replace the inefficient leaders, he hopes his students will lead the way for sorcerers and become powerful.

Gojo's Powers in Jujutsu Kaisen Explained

What Makes Gojo so Powerful?

Gojo's unique powers come from his lineage. As a member of the Gojo Clan, he was born with the Limitless technique, a powerful ability exclusive to his clan. In addition to that, he also has the Six Eyes, a combo unheard of within the world of Jujutsu sorcery. His Limitless and Six Eyes work together to make him nearly unbeatable. The Limitless Technique has three states: the neutral state Infinity, the amplified state Blue and the reversed state Red. To best understand his Limitless and its variations, a bit of math is required.

Neutral Limitless: Infinity

Infinity Makes it Almost Impossible to Even Hit Gojo

The neutral state works in the same way as convergent sequences – the longer the pattern is, the lower the next value becomes until there's almost no difference between the previous and next number. Take for example the pattern 1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16,and 1/32; the pattern moves forward, but the next numbers become lower and lower. That's exactly how Gojo's Infinity technique.

If an enemy launches an attack, the attack will become increasingly slower the closer it gets until it appears as if the attack has ended. In reality, any enemy's attack so slow that it never hits Gojo. There are ways to counter this technique, but all in all, it's extremely powerful, and Gojo uses it defensively and offensively.

Cursed Technique Amplification: Blue

Gojo's Blue Can Be Used Offensive or Defensively

The second state of the Limitless is the amplified version, simply called Blue. Cursed energy is negative, and can be symbolized using the number -1. Once the cursed energy is amplified, the negative decreases further. Gojo's amplified cursed energy has some sort of hole that can pull in all surrounding objects and people into that hole to correct it, much like a black hole or magnet.

He has used this ability brilliantly in the past, like when he cleared out buildings and objects in his fight against Toji earlier in Season 2 so that he wouldn't suffer a surprise attack. Besides the Hidden Inventory arc, he rarely uses this ability as it doesn't pack the same punch as others.

Cursed Technique Reversal: Red

Gojo's Offensive Capabilities Are Off the Charts

The third variation is the Technique Reversal: Red. This version is the complete opposite of Blue, but twice as powerful. This technique multiples the -1 state of cursed energy by another -1 to make the cursed energy +1. Achieving this requires immense training and talent, and its implications are life-changing, as healing can be accelerated.

Gojo's Red takes advantage of the +1 cursed energy to repel anything it approaches, much like a positive atom repels another positive atom. Although Red is manifested in a small red orb, it is extremely destructive and fast. Since it is compressed that much, it becomes much more powerful.

Hollow Purple

Gojo's Most Devastating Technique

A third ability Gojo possesses, which fuses both Red and Blue, is a unique power that many of his clan don't even know about. Named Hollow Purple, it fuses the -1 state of Blue and the +1 state of Red to create an imaginary state of 0. Hollow Purple is Gojo's most devastating attack, as anything it touches isn't just destroyed, but completely erased from reality.

He used this technique to kill Toji, and its power left Hanami nearly dead in Season 1. It's also his fastest as it almost seems like the attack slows down time or is so fast that everything else is slow. Regardless, nobody has dodged it. Series creator Gege Akutami hasn't explained the technique in depth, so much of it is still a mystery.

Six Eyes

Gojo's Eyes Give Him Essentially Limitless Cursed Energy

All these applications of the Limitless are only possible due to the Six Eyes. The eyes primarily serve as an infra-red camera, noticing even the slightest of changes in someone's cursed energy. This allows Gojo to decipher what technique or how much power will be used.

The Six Eyes also lets Gojo control his cursed energy down its atomic level, ensuring it is used efficiently and also aids in the subconscious use of the Limitless barrier. This is why Gojo never runs out of cursed energy no matter what. It is safe to say that without the Six Eyes, he wouldn't be nearly as powerful as he is.

Domain Expansion: Infinite Void

Gojo's Domain Expansion is One of the Most Frightening in the Series

The pinnacle of jujutsu techniques, Jujutsu Kaisen's Domain Expansions trap an opponent inside a barrier and ensure that any attacks from the Domain's of the are guaranteed to hit. Gojo's Domain is called the Infinite Void and is one of the most refined and powerful. Once an opponent is inside the void, so much information is flooded into their brain that they're unable to move. He used it in his fight against Jogo, easily defeating him. Nanami Kento said that victory for Gojo is almost guaranteed if he uses his Infinite Void.

Besides these techniques, Gojo also has other abilities. As previously mentioned, he can heal himself using reversed curse energy, but he cannot restore a limb, or his head. The series has seen him teleport many times, and he can also teleport others. This is his most mysterious technique as virtually nothing is known about. He can also fly, has a superhuman body and is absolutely brilliant when it comes to tactics.

Gojo's Death Paves the Way for the Younger Sorcerers to Seize the Spotlight

Gojo's ing Only Serves to Make the Character Deeper

As one of the most beloved characters of Jujutsu Kaisen, Gojo's death against Sukuna came as quite an unpleasant surprise as no one had seen it coming, not even the characters of the series themselves. Hailed as the strongest sorcerer humanity had to offer throughout the series, Gojo's victory was all but guaranteed, which only made his defeat in chapter #236 all the more shocking.

Sukuna and Gojo's epic battle helped them challenge each other's abilities and pushed them to innovate, adapt, and improvise at every turn, all while still having fun. As such, Gojo, who until then rarely found a worthy opponent he could truly go all out against, died after revealing the very peak of his abilities and after throwing everything he had at Sukuna.

Gojo has left an imprint on the world of Jujutsu Kaisen and has left behind a legacy that no one else may be able to live up to for perhaps another thousand years

That said, Gojo's death also paved the way for the future generation of sorcerers to show what they had and has finally allowed Yuji, the rightful protagonist of the series, to try and make an impression and show off all that he has learned. While he may be gone, Gojo has left an imprint on the world of Jujutsu Kaisen and has left behind a legacy that no one else may be able to live up to for perhaps another thousand years until another sorcerer is born with both the Six Eyes, Limitless, and a keen intellect like Gojo's.

Overall, Gojo is so powerful that the creator of the series absolutely hates him, and has vocalized his dislike for the character. This is because progressing the story while accommodating Gojo's godly powers is difficult. Gojo is easily one of the strongest characters in anime, and it is this strength that has made him such a complicated man. His extreme ego and ever-changing mood makes it hard to pin down just who he truly is. One thing is for sure though, Jujutsu Kaisen's Gojo Satoru is one of the most complex characters in anime.

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