Gojo Satoru Analysis - Blog Posts

Oh yes, I definitely get frustrated when Gojo gets reduced to a gay twink attached to Geto or, the other side which either overglaze him or completely disregard his character.

Yes, he was very upset over Geto leaving but he has every right to be upset. Geto was practically one of the few people he's close to or probably the person he's close to. I'd be too. Though, I do make fun of it, I don't like exaggerating it unnecessarily. If any one of us were in his place, we'd be in a much, much worse state. I'd say if Gojo was as clingy as the fics depicted him to be, he would've not made it after Geto died. But he did. Just because he moved forward, it doesn't mean he still isn't hurt by it. He wanted his best friend back, but he understood Geto and him were now on opposing sides and there is no third option. Geto had already killed a hundred people, including his own parents, there is no turning back.

I don't think Gojo is actually very clingy, whenever he is "clingy", he's joking or being completely unserious. This man stole his student's skirt and wore it (grown ass man). I feel like people forget how silly he is, the most popular depictions of his character are glazing or sexualisation, it somehow overshadows his usual unseriousness although it was very prominent from the moment we meet him. He's only being "clingy" because he wants a reaction out of someone. This man teases a lot of people, Utahime, Nanami and Ichiji are major victims, we see it a lot, yet people — ignore it?

Humour is just clearly his coping mechanism. It's not like he'd even consider himself worthy of talking about his struggles in the first place. He's the wall between cursed spirits and jujutsu society, he expects no one (but someone as powerful, if not more than him) to understand the stress he experiences. Take the scene where he acts all cheerful RIGHT AFTER he killed Geto. Akutami stated he had a mental breakdown afterwards — it's a facade and a coping mechanism. To him and a lot of his peers, the jujutsu world didn't need Satoru Gojo, they needed curse spirits exorcist Satoru Gojo. His goal was to change that but until he finishes nurturing the next generation of sorcerers, he has to remain the Strongest. Wait, actually, I don't think he wanted to descend lower, he wanted his students to reach that level.

Anyway it's 12:35am in the goddamned morning and I need sleep... I shall end my rant here.

my beautiful wife <3

Heyo!

I was a lil curious whether you have SatoSugu ship fics written. I haven't read much of it and also because I dropped so many because of 18+ stuff and I don't like the interpretations of the characters.

So far, I am loving your take on both Gojo and Geto — have both your analyses saved to look at again when I'm writing. They're both amazing, I'm telling you.!

I know I could just yk, scroll around but I feel like hearing from the awesome person themselves is better.

Anyway, hope you're having a good day/night! :D

Hey! :) First of all, thank you so much for your praise on my JJK Character analysis!! ☹️🫶 I spent a decent amount of time thinking about these characters, trying to understand how they think, why they do/did what they did! It’s a huge compliment to hear and know that you’re using them as reference!! It’s so rewarding to know that the posts I released into the void have some sort of impact/that they’re appreciated. I’m still learning more about them as time goes on, too!

Suguru Analysis here, and Satoru Analysis here, for anyone who wants to read it!

Secondly, no, I haven’t written any satosugu stuff. Maybe one day? It’s an interesting thing to think about, how the two might interact if they ever met one on one after their fallout (prior to geto invading Jujutsu Tech ofc). I actually am going to make a third analysis post on the mischaracterization of Gojo in the JJK fandom, especially with Satosugu. People tend to completely erase Gojo’s strengths and personality in certain fan takes. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate ships, but I think that people reduce Gojo to a sniveling mess of a man hung up on his ex best friend/lover, when that’s really not the case— Gojo’s strength is his ability to move forward, regardless of who he loses. Gege said this himself, that Gojo knows anyone can die at any point. Gojo was a man who was raised to be a weapon, shouldered a huge responsibility, and in order to do so, he couldn’t be the sensitive and clingy type of guy that people write in their fics (which sucks to hear if you’re emotionally invested in him, and people often don’t wanna exit their delusions). This doesn’t mean that Gojo isn’t touchy-feely, he def can be, but emotionally? He isn’t clingy. He could’ve been a WONDERFUL yandere character based on his childhood/teenage isolation, but Gojo didn’t have an incredibly strong sensitivity for others. That’s why he didn’t turn into a villain. He was, ultimately and unfortunately, a successful product, shaped by the people who treated him as less than human. Or that’s my current take, at least.