Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 4: I'm Gonna Kill You!
- ISBN
- 9781974714803
- Publisher
- VIZ Media
- English release
- Pages
- 200
- Chapters
- 26–34
- Anime
- Season 1 ep. 1–24
Chapters 26 to 34, and the volume that closes the Junpei story and opens the school competition. It is two books in one, and the join is abrupt: the first half finishes what Vol. 3 set up, and the second begins a tournament arc that runs to Vol. 7. That makes it a reasonable place to stop for a reader testing the series, and a poor one for a reader who has started the tournament. Viz lists it at 200 pages, eight more than the standard 192. Season 1 covers all of it, so an anime viewer still starts at Vol. 8.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
Junpei dies early in this volume, and the manner of it is the argument. Mahito turns him into a monster in front of Yuji specifically to force Yuji to rely on Sukuna, Sukuna refuses to heal him out of indifference, and both of them laugh. The series has now demonstrated that its villain's method works on a named character the reader spent a volume with, and that the protagonist's own passenger will not intervene to prevent it. Nanami arrives in time to keep Yuji alive and not in time for anything else. What follows in the same book is a school sports tournament, and the whiplash is the point rather than a flaw: the Kyoto Goodwill Event is where the series parks its cast for three volumes while the plan stated in Vol. 2 proceeds off the page. Readers who call the middle of the run slow are usually describing the decision made here.
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Lines from this volume
“We won't take long. Just wait for us there.”
Nanami is on the phone to Yuji while surrounded by transfigured people. His instruction promises that the adults will handle the danger. The next page makes that promise less comfortable: to leave, he hands the remaining work to Ino. When Ino hesitates over their numbers and the fact that they are human, Nanami offers to approve his recommendation for Grade 1. The hesitation becomes enthusiasm. Trying to protect Yuji means asking someone else to accept an ugly assignment, with a recommendation for promotion used to make it attractive. That does not establish that Nanami has chosen badly; these pages do not give him an easy alternative. It does prevent treating concern for Yuji as the whole moral account. The sequence asks who absorbs the work that a protective adult removes from a child. Ino's raised arms make the exchange comic, but the people around him have not become less human because the incentive worked.