What is Gomen Amanai?

Gomen Amanai is an audio meme that uses the piano-scored monologue Satoru Gojo delivers while floating mid-dodge in Jujutsu Kaisen, applied to clips of people or objects suspended in air.

Where did Gomen Amanai come from?

The audio comes from Episode 28 of Jujutsu Kaisen, "Hidden Inventory, Part 4," which aired on July 27, 2023. Meme edits using it started circulating on TikTok in April 2024.

What does Gomen Amanai mean?

In Japanese, "gomen, Amanai" translates to "sorry, Amanai." In the scene, Gojo apologizes to Riko Amanai for not being more upset about her death.

How do you use Gomen Amanai?

Creators typically overlay the piano audio and opening apology on footage of a subject floating, falling, or hanging motionless in air, often with a sky echoing the anime's golden sunset.

Is Gomen Amanai still popular?

The format kept momentum on TikTok and YouTube through late 2024, with new edits appearing across anime communities and random-clip accounts.

Gomen Amanai

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Published October 24, 2026

Gomen Amanai is the opening line of an internal monologue Satoru Gojo delivers while floating horizontally mid-air during a Jujutsu Kaisen battle scene that aired on July 27, 20231. Starting in April 2024, TikTok creators began setting the piano-scored audio to sunset clips, floating Minion balloons, and anime fight edits of characters hanging suspended in frame2.

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Overview

Posts in the format typically set the piano music and Gojo's opening apology against footage of objects or people hovering, falling in slow motion, or oddly motionless in frame1. The joke lands when a mundane subject, a stray balloon or a sideways sunset, visually echoes Gojo's upside-down levitation pose from the anime3.

Tone sits between sincere anime melodrama and ironic self-mockery, with the top comments and caption usually written in the voice of someone surprised to be feeling an anime moment about ordinary scenery2. Edits range from Jujutsu Kaisen fan tributes to crossover anime cuts and real-life clips where any floating or airborne subject stands in for Gojo4 5.

Origin & Background

Platform

TikTok (viral spread)

Date

2024

Episode 28 of Jujutsu Kaisen, titled "Hidden Inventory, Part 4," aired on July 27, 20236. In the scene, around the 3:09 mark of the clip circulated online, Gojo dodges an attack from Toji Fushiguro by tilting backward in mid-air and silently apologizes to Riko Amanai, a classmate he could not save earlier in the arc1. Piano music under the monologue became the audio hook that later anchored the meme3.

How It Spread

TikToker @fire_btt posted the earliest documented edit on April 23, 2024, matching a golden sunset to the caption "'gomen, amanai' ahh sunset💀💀💀"2. That video drew over 766,100 views and 88,800 likes in the six months after it went up2.

On June 12, 2024, @anakngmamako123 posted a clip of a floating Minion balloon set to the monologue, which reached over 9.5 million views and 1.6 million likes within four months4. Weeks later, on July 3, 2024, @listeningmyblue uploaded a Wuthering Waves edit of a character being knocked flying to the same audio, earning 338,000 views and 47,000 likes in three months5.

Through mid-2024, this format kept moving on TikTok and YouTube3, with creators layering the audio over additional anime cuts and other suspended-in-air clips7 8.

Timeline

2023-07-27

Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 28 "Hidden Inventory, Part 4" airs, featuring Gojo's "Gomen, Amanai" internal monologue mid-dodge.

2024-04-23

TikToker @fire_btt posts the earliest documented edit, applying the audio to a sunset clip.

2024-06-12

@anakngmamako123 posts a floating Minion balloon video with the monologue; it later tops 9.5 million views.

2024-07-03

@listeningmyblue posts a Wuthering Waves knockback edit using the audio.

2024-10

Format still active on TikTok and YouTube with new anime and real-life variants.