Summary

word of advice : SPOILERS for chapter # 246 of Jujutsu Kaisen

The heroes ofJujutsu Kaisenhave been struggling sinceSatoru Gojowas brought down by archvillain Sukuna , but it seems that the replacement of the " honored one " is not Yuji , as fans expect , but another , less likely jujutsu magician : Hiromi Higuruma .

In chapter # 246 ofJujutsu Kaisen , a team of thaumaturgist is trying to bring down Sukuna after he dispatched both Gojo and Hajime Kashimo in sequence . Their strategy go around aroundHiromi Higuruma ’s curst technique , Judgeman . While the first gambit fails , fans see something very worthful in the process .

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It appear that even the King of Curses Sukuna , the strongest thaumaturge and beshrew to ever walk the ground , recognizes the talent of Higuruma , fit as far as compare him to Gojo , the only opponent who ever earned Sukuna ’s respect .

Higuruma’s Raw Talent Puts Him In The Same Class As Gojo

Higuruma is a comparatively Modern fictitious character in the series , one of the many inaugurate duringthe controversial Culling Game arc . He is a former defense lawyers lawyer who abandoned his professing when the Department of Justice system of rules unfairly found his most recent customer shamed despite the overpowering evidence in his favor . At the same sentence , Higuruma awakened as a jujutsu sorcerer as a effect of Kenjaku ’s use of remote Idle Transfiguration to kickstart his Culling Game . Higuruma has thus been able to use unsaved vim for less than two months , which is why Sukuna compare him with Gojo is so telling .

While Higuruma surely possesses a powerful cursed proficiency , one that allows for the instant death or licking of his opponents , this is not very unlike from any otherhigh - stratum sorcerer ’s Domain Expansion , where hits can not be ward off . In fact , Higuruma can not even habituate inverse cursed technique to cure his wound , as Yuji points out in this chapter , meaning he is at great disadvantage in battle . However , as Sukuna distinctly assure , Higuruma ’s greatest asset lie in his rude talent for wielding imprecate vigour , which indeed was also an property of Satoru Gojo .

Jujutsu Kaisendoes not centre much on the concept of " success through exploit " like many other shonen series do . Instead , things like talent and natural predisposition are central to its superpower organization and ranking . Sukuna and Gojo , for illustration , shared the consuming loneliness that comes from being the strongest due to their raw natural endowment , and even Yuji was born with ( still mostly unexplained ) superhuman strong-arm ability and position for cursed energy . The fact that Higuruma also has that story of predisposition thus puts him in the same conference as Gojo and Sukuna , " the honored one " .

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Higuruma’s Lack Of Experience Will Likely Be His Downfall

In chapter # 246 , Higuruma shows he can already use Domain Amplification , which manages to leave Sukuna fascinated . The affirmation that Higuruma possesses " the same talent as Satoru Gojo " must have come as a electric shock to fans , but this does n’t mean that Higuruma is actually on the same tier . As he admits in the chapter , Higuruma miss actual scrap experience . No matter how much naked as a jaybird talent and attitude one possesses , practice is still needed to express the maximum potentiality of unredeemed energy , and few had more praxis than the thousand - year - sure-enough Sukuna . It would surely be tragic ifJujutsu Kaisendeclared Higuruma as the novel Gojo only to have him become flat a pair of chapters later , but it ’s exactly the type of lurid development that fans of the series are used to .

Jujutsu Kaisenis usable from Viz Media and MANGA Plus .

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Jujutsu Kaisen’s Yuji Itadori next to The Apothecary Diaries' Maomao

Yuji and Higuruma from Jujutsu Kaisen in the background, with Gojo in front smiling slightly and pointing to the left

Sukuna is impressed by Higuruma in Jujutsu Kaisen

Higuruma using his Cursed Technique in Jujutsu Kaisen

Sukuna and Higuruma