Don’t you just love it when a manga’s climax just goes all in for the batshit insanity? While I’ve had my issues with Jujutsu Kaisen in the past, what’s followed since its Culling Game comeback has proven to be pure fire. After all, we’ve reached the point we’ve all been waiting for: the showdown against Sukuna. And while the battle doesn’t end in the twenty-ninth volume, it sure is chiseling hard on this ultra-villain’s tombstone!

Basically, anyone who is alive and has at least one working appendage is joining the fight against Sukuna. Alongside Yuji, Yuta, and Choso, the rest of the living and breathing Jujutsu sorcerers have tagged themselves in to take care of this massive problem. Perhaps the biggest star within the crew is Miguel Oduor, a character that left me shouting, “Where the hell has this guy been, and why isn’t he one of the main stars of Jujutsu Kaisen?!” This dude’s got the swagger of a perfectly cool hero, to the point where he even shames Satoru Gojo after the guy inadvertently made a racist comment. (Seriously, Gege Akutami, it’s nuts that it’s only now that he’s been brought into the present-day story!)

But I digress. One moment that maybe outshines the return of Miguel is how Todo re-enters the fight. Armed with a certain musical instrument, he is now able to use Boogie-Woogie almost 50 times a second, making his skill a necessity in the battle against Sukuna. And once he gets to slapping that vibraslap, it becomes a whirlwind of punches, kicks, and jujutsu sorcerer attacks that not even Sukuna can evade. Yes, the villain gets the upper hand here and there (there’d be no tension if that didn’t happen), but as Yuji and the rest land their attacks, it becomes certain: Sukuna’s going down hard!

And boy, does the fight look good! Akutami knows that his story is coming to an end, and he aims to do so with a bang. Limbs explode, buildings crumble, crows flock away from chaos, and even a couple of surprises are thrown in for good measure. While I don’t want to ruin it here, Yuta does something so nuts that I had to flip through the pages again to make sure I didn’t miss something. But when the stakes are this high, you have to throw everything at the wall and see if it sticks to the plan or if it plops back down to the ground.

For the second-to-last volume of Jujutsu Kaisen, it seems like Akutami still has time to throw in a curveball here and there. These last few volumes have rekindled my love for this series. And while it has had its flaws (something that I will get to in the next and final Jujutsu Kaisen review), you can’t argue that this series isn’t ending things with as grand of a finale as humanly possible! So c’mon, Yuji Itadori! Make the last one count!

Promotional consideration provided by Chantelle Sturt of VIZ Media. Click here to read past reviews of Jujutsu Kaisen!