[ch. 269 Spoilers]

[ch. 269 spoilers]

I agree that resurrecting a dead character out of nowhere can be a worse writing choice than processing their death but

Did yall rly think Hiromi Higuruma was dead?

Nobara Kugisaki?

That Gojo isn't coming back?

Despite all the hints?

Even Todo?

Hiromi didn't have so many clues, but unless a death is super explicit, like Junpei or Nanami's, it's not valid in my brain. (the fact that Sukuna's last slash didn't hit him, and Hiromi had begun to learn RCT, and he didn't get a last moment scene was enough).

Nobara got a bit of an afterlife scene, so that was rly scary, but after noticing the foreshadowing of Nishimiya's speech on a woman with a scar on her face, it was clear that Nobara would live with a scar on her face. Nitta resuscitated her, after all.

I still believe that Gojo is coming back - that's why no one is mournful or mentioning the shock they feel over him.

The hint with the page of Gojo with an infinity sign halo, the CT of creating sugar when Gojo was always eating, especially sugar, bc his brains needs it. That throughout heaven and earth, he alone is the honored one. And the clock in the last 2 chapters - (it seems to hint at Sukuna, and Gojo from what I've heard, which would add to my evidence that Gojo is Sukuna's next vessel, but idk).

I'm not mad about him being written off because he's still out there.

Choso though... I have a few theories on how he could still come back. And if he doesn't, then Yuuji better be sad about it.

My biggest question rn is... Where is Takaba?

And Tengen - since Sukuna swallowed Tengen, and I didn't see that little embryo in ch. 268.

It sounds like, since the condition was the death of all culling game players, that the merger won't be fulfilled - though some people had already transformed into cursed spirits. I imagine that anyone able to regulate their own CT is safe.

chapter 270 gojo walks through the door, looks at kusakabe and says, "i heard you bitchin about my student again," with a hollow purple sign up

So far we haven't seen

Gojo (heavily implied that he'll return though)

Shoko, Ijichi, and the guy with the sugar CT haven't been seen for a while, so I imagine they're busy elsewhere, possibly with Gojo

Takaba (who thought it would be funny to play dead after his dream performance w kenjaku)

Angel/Hana

Uraume (did they just disintegrate bc Sukuna did? Did their vessel get their life back?

Nitta (either of them, but the first year is probably still with Shoko, ig? Otherwise he'd probably be hanging with the other students)

Utahime

Gakuganji (he got higher up responsibilities now. Or cursed corpse activities?)

Larue & Miguel left already, idk where they are but they're fine.

Edit to add: Rika, with her RCT abilities, might also be with Shoko. But it isn't like she's always out anyway so her absence isn't that strange.

I AM YOU

Had to go back and find this panel bc if Yuuji's gloves (that he borrowed from Yuuta) were in it...

They aren't.

But I love how it was just. To hide his missing fingers.

My guess that it was from the dead embryos he ate was so wrong akshdhsjajkskx I love getting humbled