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One cited deathJujutsu Kaisen
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The lower-ranked entity killed the higher-ranked one. The record and the ladder disagree.

Yuji Itadori vs Ryomen Sukuna

The killerYuji ItadoriJujutsu Kaisen · rank 5
4 places
The victimRyomen SukunaJujutsu Kaisen · rank 1

A contract closed out by the smallest signatory to it. It is genuinely the vessel who lands the blow, and the fiction takes care that this should not read as a measurement: what gets through is aimed at a soul rather than at a body, and arranging the opening costs most of the other names here everything they have. As evidence about two individuals it is thin, and the order above it would survive being told. As evidence about what a thousand-year-old contract eventually costs whoever drafted it, it is the entire book.

The connecting record

shownJujutsu Kaisen

Yuji Itadori killed Ryomen Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Yuji Itadori · rank 5

Jujutsu Kaisencomicanimation

Swallowed a finger of the King of Curses in his own school building to keep it away from everybody else, then signed a minute of his body over to get his heart back. Put Black Flashes together against Hanami in his first year, and at Shinjuku landed the blow the fight ended on.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 1

    Eats one of Sukuna's fingers in front of Megumi.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 2

    Accepts a deferred death sentence as the condition of being allowed to keep living.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 11

    Accepts Sukuna's binding vow in exchange for his heart being restored.

All 7 citations
  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 50

    Lands repeated Black Flash strikes on Hanami at the Goodwill Event.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 50

    The run is counted at four consecutive Black Flashes.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 267

    Lands the final blow on Sukuna at Shinjuku.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 267

    The blows Yuji lands in that exchange are said to reach Sukuna's soul rather than his body.

Yuji Itadori on the Jujutsu Kaisen ladder

The victim · Ryomen Sukuna · rank 1

The King of Curses

Jujutsu Kaisencomicanimationcontested

Negotiated one minute inside a borrowed body, called it a single time, and spent it taking Megumi Fushiguro. Kept those hands, and used them to cut Gojo Satoru down in front of the sorcerers who had staked the whole plan on the opposite result. The stretch of Shibuya he cut apart earlier was a longer stay in the same borrowed body, bought by other people forcing his fingers down its throat.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 8

    Takes control of Yuji's body and tears Yuji's own heart out of his chest.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 11

    Sets the terms of a binding vow granting him one minute of control, with Yuji left no memory of the agreement.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 119

    Cuts apart a large area of Shibuya and the people standing in it.

All 9 citations
  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 115

    Dodges Jogo's Maximum: Meteor.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 115

    Sukuna says the meteor would have hurt him if it had connected.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 116

    Burns Jogo to death.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 236

    Cuts Gojo Satoru in half at Shinjuku.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 236

    Sukuna buys the strike with a binding vow that lifts the conditions the world-cutting slash normally carries.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 119

    Malevolent Shrine is described as a domain opened without a barrier around it.

Ryomen Sukuna on the Jujutsu Kaisen ladder

What this does not settle

One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.