Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo's Ending, Explained: Yuji's Cursed Object Twist and the Ritual of Harmony

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo is over. Gege Akutami's sequel to Jujutsu Kaisen launched in Weekly Shonen Jump on September 8, 2025, and closed out with Chapter 25 in issue #15, published March 9, 2026 — a run of roughly six months that filled out three collected volumes. For a manga following one of the biggest Shonen Jump hits of the last decade, that's a strikingly short serialization, and it's already generating the same kind of debate that surrounded the original series' own finale: what actually got resolved, what didn't, and whether six months was ever enough time to land it.

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A compact run by design, not a cancellation

The first thing worth clearing up is the length itself. A three-volume, six-month manga wrapping up can read, at a glance, like a series that got cut short — either by poor sales or an editorial decision to pull the plug early. That's not what happened here. Akutami stated before Modulo even launched that the "compact" serialization format was the plan from the start, describing a story built to run about half a year and fill roughly three volumes. In other words, Chapter 25 isn't an abrupt stop; it's the finish line Akutami set out to reach before writing a single page.

That distinction matters for how the ending should be read. A story built for a six-month runtime has different structural math than a story that expected years and got cut off — and some of the criticism aimed at Modulo's finale, discussed further down, has to be weighed against the fact that this was always meant to be a sprint rather than a marathon.

Sixty years later, humans versus an alien threat

Modulo picks up roughly six decades after the events of the original Jujutsu Kaisen, with an entirely new cast of sorcerers navigating a jujutsu world that's had two generations to change since Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, and their peers were the ones fighting curses. The central conflict driving the sequel isn't curses in the original sense, but a war between humanity and an alien race introduced as antagonists for this new era.

Here's a genuine sourcing snag worth flagging rather than papering over: this alien race has been rendered under at least three different names across the reporting and fan translation ecosystem — Simurians, Rumelians, and Kalyans all show up depending on the source. That kind of variance usually comes down to how a Japanese term gets handled by different scanlation and localization pipelines before an official English release settles the spelling, and as of this writing there isn't a single confirmed "correct" English name to point to. Rather than pick one version and present it as settled, it's more honest to note that this is genuinely unresolved in the current English-language coverage of the series.

Whatever the eventual official spelling, the conflict itself is the engine of Modulo's plot: a new generation of sorcerers, born into a jujutsu society still shaped by the fallout of the original series' Culling Game and Shibuya Incident, now has to contend with a threat from entirely outside the curse ecosystem that defined the first series.

Yuji Itadori's return, and what he actually does in the finale

Yuji Itadori isn't just a legacy cameo in Modulo — he's a central figure in how the story closes. Rather than functioning as the new cast's mentor from the sidelines, Yuji spends the finale actively working: containing newly formed cursed spirits that emerge as fallout from the story's climax, and personally training the next generation of sorcerers who'll have to carry the jujutsu world forward once the current conflict resolves.

That training effort isn't a solo project. Yuji brings back two familiar names from the original series to help: Nobara Kugisaki and Aoi Todo. Their return matters for readers who followed the first series closely — both characters carry real history with Yuji, and having them reenter the story specifically to help shape the next generation of sorcerers gives the ending a throughline back to the relationships that defined the original manga, rather than treating the sixty-year time jump as a clean break from everything that came before.

The biggest twist: Yuji becomes a cursed object

The single most consequential reveal in Modulo's ending concerns what happens to Yuji after his death. The finale establishes that Yuji will become a cursed object — a direct structural echo of Sukuna's fingers, the cursed objects whose recovery and consumption drove enormous stretches of the original series' plot. And Modulo doesn't stop at the parallel: it leaves open the possibility that Yuji could be reincarnated if someone consumes the object he becomes, the same mechanism that let Sukuna persist across centuries by being carried inside a vessel.

It's hard to overstate how much weight that reveal is carrying. Sukuna's fingers were never just a MacGuffin in the original Jujutsu Kaisen — they were the mechanism by which the series' primary antagonist reentered the world and eventually took over a body entirely. Having Yuji, of all characters, end up structurally mirrored to that same fate is a pointed piece of thematic irony: the protagonist whose entire arc in the original series was about resisting being reduced to a vessel for Sukuna's power ends his own story occupying the same category of object Sukuna once used to cheat death. Whether that reads as a poignant closing of the loop or as an unsettling fate for a character readers spent the entire original series rooting for is likely to depend a lot on individual taste — but it's clearly meant to land as the ending's emotional and thematic centerpiece.

The reincarnation possibility also functions as Modulo's version of a door left ajar rather than fully closed. Nothing in the finale confirms that anyone actually consumes the object Yuji becomes, or that reincarnation happens on-page. It's presented as a possibility baked into the object's nature, which leaves Yuji's ultimate fate genuinely open-ended rather than resolved one way or the other.

The Ritual of Harmony

The second major world-altering beat in the finale is the Ritual of Harmony, carried out by a character named Maru. The ritual works by reshaping souls as they pass through what's described as "the pathway of souls," stripping cursed energy from them in the process. The practical, world-scale consequence is enormous: it ensures that no more sorcerers will be born in future generations.

That's a genuinely structural ending for a franchise built entirely around the existence of cursed energy and the sorcerers who wield it. Rather than resolving the human-versus-alien conflict purely through combat and leaving the underlying jujutsu ecosystem intact for future stories, Modulo closes by fundamentally altering the terms under which curses and sorcery exist at all going forward. It's the kind of move that reads as a genuine series-ender rather than a chapter that leaves room for more of the same status quo — future jujutsu stories, if they ever happen, would have to reckon with a world where the Ritual of Harmony has already changed the underlying rules.

Confirmed character fates

Beyond the two big structural beats, Modulo's ending locks in a handful of character outcomes that original-series readers will care about directly. Megumi Fushiguro's death from the original Jujutsu Kaisen is confirmed as permanent — Modulo doesn't walk it back or leave ambiguity around it, closing off one of the more emotionally loaded open questions some readers had carried since the first series ended. On a lighter note, Tsurugi and Yuka both survive the finale, and Yuka is specifically confirmed to be cured of the brain tumor that had been part of her circumstances. Between Megumi's fate staying settled and Yuka getting an unambiguously positive resolution, the finale's character-level outcomes land as a mix rather than a uniformly grim or uniformly happy close.

The mixed reception, and why it echoes the original's ending

It would be dishonest to write this piece as a pure victory lap. Coverage of Modulo's finale has been genuinely mixed, and multiple outlets covering the ending have drawn a specific, unflattering comparison: that Modulo's conclusion repeats the exact same problems that plagued the original Jujutsu Kaisen's ending — namely, a rushed conclusion and plotlines that don't get fully resolved. That's not a small criticism, and it's worth taking seriously rather than glossing over in favor of celebrating the bigger reveals.

Some of that criticism connects directly back to the compact-format decision discussed earlier. A three-volume runtime gives Akutami very little room to develop a new setting, a new cast, and a new central conflict while also delivering a satisfying resolution to all of it — and the alien-conflict plotline, the exact mechanics of how the Ritual of Harmony reshapes the wider jujutsu world going forward, and the practical fallout of Yuji's cursed-object fate are all areas where readers and critics have pointed to threads that feel more gestured-at than fully closed. Whether that's a fair trade-off for the ambition of what Modulo attempted in half a year, or a sign that the format itself was too constrained for the story Akutami was trying to tell, is very much the live debate around this ending right now.

Where this leaves Jujutsu Kaisen as a franchise

Taken as a whole, Modulo functions less like a conventional sequel series and more like an extended epilogue with real narrative stakes — one that closes some of the original series' loosest threads (Megumi's fate, what happens to a world that's produced sorcerers for generations) while opening new ones of its own that it doesn't have the page count to fully chase down. The Ritual of Harmony's ending-of-sorcery premise, in particular, reads like it's designed to function as a hard stop for the franchise's core concept rather than a setup for more stories in the same vein — which, combined with no new serialization currently announced, suggests Akutami and Shueisha may be treating this compact run as the actual, final word on the Jujutsu Kaisen world rather than a bridge to something else.

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For now, what's confirmed is straightforward: Modulo ran its planned six months, ended with Chapter 25, delivered two genuinely series-altering reveals in Yuji's cursed-object fate and the Ritual of Harmony, and locked in character outcomes for Megumi, Tsurugi, and Yuka. What's still contested is whether all of that landed with the room it needed to — and on that question, the reception has made clear this ending is going to be argued about for a while.