The Sukuna Twin Plot Hole That Ruined Jujutsu Kaisen

Jujutsu Kaisen Volumes 29 and 30 have just been released and we are seeing plenty of extra pages outside the 19-aged epilogue chapter.

However, there is one sketch that has fans going mad.

Amon the extra pages for Volume 29, we see a sketch of Wasuke Itadori, Yuji’s grandfather, together with Sukuna.

Gege’s caption reads: “To be precise, it’s not Itadori’s dad, but his grandfather who shares the same soul.”

Wasuke then asks: “Do we look similar?”

An Old Community Theory

We actually made an old theory on this long before the Jin reveal where we pointed out Heian form Sukuna looked like a younger Wasuke but with a mask or that Wasuke could easily pass as Sukuna’s father due to how similarly their facial structures are.

There is a lot of support over how Akutami’s final reveal always made sense.

When we first learned in Chapter 143: “One More Time” that Yuji’s true mother was Kenjaku, while possessing the body of Kaori, there is one glaring detail in the picture.

Wasuke, Jin’s father, knew exactly what was going on.

He tells Jin: “Jin, you can live your life however you like but give up on that woman. You’ll die.”

At first, we see that this is because he suddenly saw Kaori die but there is a bit more to the statement, almost like the old man knew exactly what type of spiritual event was taking place.

Wasuke treated the woman walking as Kaori as a different person when he said: “I know you wanted a child and that didn’t happen with Kaori.”

The reaction was more than one of fear but knowing concern and alarm.

He did not react like a crazy person who just saw a corpse rise up but had the calm to tell Jin that he understand Jin’s grief after Kaori died.

This also implied a lot of time passed between yet somehow, Jin forgot about the grief and treated Kaori’s return as a continuation of his normal life.

This gave people the impression that perhaps Wasuke was a Sorcerer.

Wasuke’s Death and Sukuna’s Return in Chapter 1 Were No Coincidence

However, the most glaring bit of evidence behind the theory is that Wasuke died around the day Yuji consumed the Sukuna finger and became Sukuna’s vessel.

In Chapter 1, titled “Ryomen Sukuna”, Wasuke was dying in the hospital and he tells Yuji that he is strong, so he should help people no matter what.

This is what ties Yuji’s dynamic with Sukuna even further, especially with Yuji’s Domain Expansion in Chapter 265 and last words to Sukuna in chapter 268 being centered on Wasuke’s will.

When Yuji tells Sukuna: “You are me”, he points out how BOTH of them were born with the burden of a curse.

Yuji was born from Kaori’s corpse and with Sukuna’s soul, and Sukuna consumed his twin brother.

However, the monster Sukuna became was “up to luck” while Yuji was not alone.

Which was the very last thing Wasuke said to Yuji.

To not be lonely like Wasuke.

Lonely like Sukuna.

Lonely without a family like Sukuna.

Cursed like Sukuna.

A Year-Long Writing Mistake

Later in Chapter 257, we learn in a flashback before the Shinjuku Showdown that Sukuna had a twin brother but that he ate him while they were in the womb.

Sukuna also tells Uraume that this twin would reincarnate into a person of the modern world:

Jin Itadori, Yuji’s father.

Yes, the manga, Gege Akutami, said straightforwardly that Jin was the one who bore Sukuna’s twin’s soul.

When this came out, there was fanfare and community discourse but also some grumblings.

There was a significant amount of attention given to the “Wasuke is Sukuna’s twin” theory and the theorists felt like the Jin reveal was done because Akutami wanted to get one over the community theories.

Sukuna may have hypothesized, wondering about the identity of Kenjaku’s child and why their souls shared a resonance.

However, this has been treated as gospel because there is nowhere in the manga that corrects this theory, whether much later or through a much stronger implication.

Now, after all of that, we see Akutami revise his main manga content to a set of extra pages that are not part of the original manga.

After 9 months, however, at the end of Volume 29, we learn that Gege actually made a mistake in the writing and so he corrected himself at the end of the volume containing Chapter 257 instead of much sooner.

Is Kenjaku Stupid Then?

This also raises the question: why did Kenjaku, who would know about where Sukuna’s twin would reincarnate, decide to have a baby with Jin instead of Wasuke, who is the direct vessel here?

And if the intent really was to have a child with Jin, how was it possible for Yuji to retain the full powers of Sukuna’s soul.

If you recall, in Jujutsu Kaisen, cursed energy treats twins as two people sharing one soul.

If Kenjaku had a child with the incarnation of Sukuna’s twin soul, that child would have the preconditions to awaken Sukuna’s power.

However, Yuji is not Wasuke’s son but grandson and Akutami’s retcon of the Sukuna twin reveal only creates another plothole of how exactly Yuji was able to become Sukuna’s vessel if he was more distant in relation to Sukuna’s soul than Jin himself.

Akutami did not provide a plausible explanation for why Kenjaku either acted too late or acted in this manner.

Even if he wanted to do the Culling Game out of his twisted fun, as a scientist, Kenjaku needed 100% accuracy in ensuring that Sukuna’s soul could be transferred over.

Ways to Save the Plot

If Akutami wanted to go back to the more sensible reveal that Wasuke was Sukuna’s twin, he could have explained by saying that by dying, Sukuna’s soul would enter into Yuji through a unique reincarnation method.

Kenjaku was a master of Jujutsu reincarnation because he preserved potentially hundreds of different Cursed Objects holding the essence of his contracted Sorcerers and Kenjaku was able to use a foreign Cursed Technique in the modern day with the technical know-how to program those that consumed the Cursed Objects with biological conditions to handle the power of an ancient Jujutsu Sorcerer.

Instead, we get an extra page that could very well be treated as a joke or an afterthought, rather than part of the canon.

Why did Akutami not even revise Chapter 257 or even provide draw a few scenes to explain this in the middle of Volume 29’s story?

This makes Kenjaku to be a senseless risk taker or an idiot.

It would also make the intense, zany storytelling of Jujutsu Kaisen, the aspect the series is most famous for, to be clumsy and sloppy workmanship in the hands of Gege Akutami.

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