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Despite Mahito seeming nice towards Junpei, it's clear he always saw him as a toy and a pawn. However, in the light novel, he actually seems to develop some fondness for a blind man he meets in the sewers. He has no intent to kill him and comes closer than he's ever been to being sad.

So I wonder if Mahito's even capable of caring about humans and if so, why he liked the blind man but not Junpei?

Here’s the novel for anyone who wants to read it.

https://mokochan314.home.blog/2021/03/28/chapter-3-fables-from-the-dark/

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Hot Topics:

Where can I read leaks?

Read Rule #3 on the sidebar for where and when to find leaks on Twitter, Discord, and fanscan sites (TCB and Shishiso scans). DON'T post leaks outside of the pre-release megathread when you find them. Don't post them in this thread.

Where can I read the official Fanbook/Databook?

Scans and translations here and searchable text here. Also on the sidebar and sub wiki.

What is Uraume's gender?

Uraume's gender is currently unconfirmed.

What would happen if Yuji ate another Sukuna finger?

We don't know since the manga hasn't answered that question. Sukuna's fingers are Cursed Objects containing pieces of his soul so make of that what you will.

Is Gojo really dead?

Yep, looks like he is.

What is Kenjaku's plan with the Culling Game?

In short, he's using the Culling Games to produce a lot of Cursed Energy within its Barriers, with which he plans to use to evolve the human race. He wants to create a new golden age of Jujutsu. Kenjaku has apparently not revealed all his plans, Yuki cast suspicion on Tengen (the Culling Game plan infodumper) before they fought, and Kenjaku called Tengen his "friend", so it's unclear if Tengen was entirely truthful. We don't yet know how Sukuna fits into this plan, even though he and Kenjaku have been cooperating.

What is Ijichi's Cursed Technique?

How naive of you to ask. He wouldn't cheat by giving it away.

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There is a tldr at the end.

While other power system mechanics have been discussed at length (for better or worse), barrier techniques have been positioned as the middle child. They aren't as controversial as binding vows, nor as interesting as innate cursed techniques. This has left them in a weird spot, most people acknowledging that they are an important part of the power system but there isn't enough incentive to try to analyze and understand them. This is where I come in with a post that will (hopefully) elucidate barrier techniques.

This post will analyze what constitutes barrier techniques mastery, and what separates this from general curse energy manipulation mastery. It will be split into multiple sections highlighted in bold.

1. Barrier techniques require a specific set of skills

We find out in the volume 10 extras that if somebody possess a certain amount of curse energy, they can put up barriers. Assistant managers are not sorcerers due to their low curse energy level and lack of skill, but they can still put up barriers so the threshold is really low.

Gojo states that barrier techniques are hard, and that many strong sorcerers cannot cast them. This is in line with the volume 10 extras saying that there is a big gap between being good and being bad at barriers. Gege also states in the fanbook that nanami, a grade 1 sorcerer, has a poor affinity for barriers.

Tengen is the epitome of barrier techniques proficiency, calling herself the best barrier technique user. Tengen also said that kenjaku could absorb her without any conditions. We know from the narration during hidden inventory that a curse spirit manipulation user can absorb a curse spirit without conditions if it is 2 grades or more below the user's level. This is relevant because it means that, considering kenjaku's special grade level, tengen would be a grade 2 sorcerer at best (it would be more accurate to say grade 2 curse spirit level).

All of those establish that there is pretty much no correlation between the overall strength of a sorcerer/curse spirit and their barrier proficiency. The best barrier user is grade 2 at best (tengen), while grade 1s have pretty much no barrier skill (nanami). This implies that barrier proficiency is fundamentally different from curse energy manipulation proficiency. In the next sections I will explain why that is the case

2. Concrete mental image

Kusakabe explains that it is paramount for barrier techniques to have a concrete mental image of the barrier. The small domain that gojo pulled off against sukuna is an "impossible" feat in the eyes of kusakabe because it would normally be unimaginable for yourself to be contained in a volume smaller than your own volume.

Gojo got the ability to visualize such an absurd thing from his experience inside the prison realm, but sukuna didn't experience that so he cannot make his domain that small. We can see that while gojo's/yujo's domain is about basketball size, sukuna's malevolent shrine has a radius of about 2 meters. This is why the small domain worked better than gojo's previous attempts, because he was able to shrink his barrier more than sukuna, so he got a bigger boost in barrier durability than sukuna got in sure hit attack potency.

The first time this concept of a concrete mental image was introduced was with megumi. He lacked a barrier and thus a sure hit in the fight against the second finger bearer and against dagon, but in the fight against reggie we get the explanation why. Megumi states that he has trouble conceptualizing how a domain can be bigger on the inside than on the outside. We already knew this feature of domain expansions, and this volume extra explains it pretty well.

This was only about the space manipulation of domain expansions, but barriers can be much more complicated. Some barriers such as the one erected by the curse in hidden inventory divides the space inside the barrier into multiple "building blocks", and by rearranging them it can create the illusion of an infinite corridor. Tengen's barrier around jujutsu high functions similarly as it is also assembled using "building blocks", but instead of using this to create the appearance of an infinite space it uses it to suffle the building blocks around. This makes it so the location of the key places such as the storeroom remains hidden. Tengen's sunyata barrier takes it a step further and instead of rearranging parts of the barrier, it has periodic boundary conditions creating a space fractal.

Besides space, barriers can also manipulate time. The hidden inventory curse's barrier made it so the 30 minutes mei mei and utahime spent inside was 2 days on the outside. Miyo's simple domain was able to do the reverse, while inside it maki and him had time to do more than one thousand bouts of sumo, but on the outside it was less than a minute.

Barriers are better thought of as pocket dimensions where space-time isn't bound by any intuitive constraints, so to be a master at barriers it is paramount that you have the ability to visualize abstract concepts. This is one of the two steps required to be able to perform barriers at the higest level.

3. Blend of internal and external parameters

Throughout the battle between gojo and sukuna, kusakabe has shown disbelief at their ability to change the conditions of their domains on the fly. He later explains exactly why that is such an impressive feat. Barriers, especially domain expansion barriers, are created when a sorcerer blends various factors such as external conditions, internal conditions, volume and construction speed. Only after discovering the perfect blend of these parameters, does a sorcerer's domain barrier come into existence. An analogy to finding the perfect cocktail recipe is made.

Most barriers that we see throughout the story have these parameters preset:

• Tengen through his pure barriers is able to calibrate the barrier techniques of the assistant managers. This means that the assistant managers (or sorcerers who want to put up a veil) don't need to think about the veil's parameters blend, tengen does that for them and they only need to perform the chant and pour in their curse energy.

• that is similar to what kenjaku achieves through the talismans on the nails. Kokichi states that this is a feat that makes kenjaku's barrier techniques far superior to the sorcerer's side, and gojo corraborated that by claiming that the curse user (kenjaku) who set up the exhange event is very skilled.

• the last category of barriers that have preset parameters are the domain expansions that are part of the innate cursed technique. Kusakabe explains that higuruma and hakari unlocked their domain expansions so easily because the parameters of the domains were given to them by default through the innate cursed technique.

There are three levels of barrier techniques mastery regarding the parameters of the barrier:

• the lowest one is the aforementioned one, people who cannot perform barriers themsleves and rely on preset parameters to be able to put up a barrier.

• the middle one is made up of people who can create barriers, but only after a lot of trial and error. Domain expansion users enter this category as each domain expansion is unique, so they can get no help from tengen or kenjaku through a talisman. They thus have to find the blend of parameters by themsleves.

• the highest one is made up of people who can freely change their barrier parameters on the fly. Gojo and sukuna have displayed it in shinjuku, and tengen and kenjaku obviosuly have this ability as well. The only other character who has shown this ability is mahito changing his domain activation speed after being awakened by black flash in shibuya.

4. Unstable barriers

The question remaining is "what happens if a sorcerer cannot perfectly visualize the barrier's space-time conditions or doesn't have a good blend of the barrier parameters?". Kusakabe explains that for the former, the barrier would just collapse. Kusakabe also explains that the barrier forms only if the right blend is achieved.

However, we have more concrete information about what happens when there is an imperfect blend of barrier parameters. The narrator explains during the three-way domain clash that due to the difference in internal and external conditions for the barriers, the barriers themselves become unstable. Normally a domain's barrier doesn't collapse if a hole is made in it (as we've seen with yuji making a hole into mahito's domain or megumi making a hole into dagon's domain), but due to the instability of the three-way domain clash, the hole made by kuro collapsed the domain.

Tengen explains to yuki that because kenjaku will open his domain inside her sunyata barrier, the information regarding kenjaku's domain will be visible to her. Tengen would therefore be able to analyze kenjaku's domain, and by changing her own sunyata barrier's parameters, she will be able to neutralize kenjaku's domain. This is basically inserting an opposite configuration of parameters to kenjaku's, so his domain barrier becomes so unstable that it collapses.

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Tldr: barriers technique are hard because they aren't as straightforward as curse energy manipulation. To be able to cast barriers you need to be able to visualize abstract concepts such as different spacetime conditions, and to be able to perform "math" on the spot to calculate the perfect parameters for a given barrier. This means that there is little to no correlation between the strength of a sorcerer and their barrier skill

This sub is catered to quality, in-depth manga discussion, so please post questions that have simple manga answers here. If you don't have 500 comment karma yet, you can post here too.

Hot Topics:

Where can I read leaks?

Read Rule #3 on the sidebar for where and when to find leaks on Twitter, Discord, and fanscan sites (TCB and Shishiso scans). DON'T post leaks outside of the pre-release megathread when you find them. Don't post them in this thread.

Where can I read the official Fanbook/Databook?

Scans and translations here and searchable text here. Also on the sidebar and sub wiki.

What is Uraume's gender?

Uraume's gender is currently unconfirmed.

What would happen if Yuji ate another Sukuna finger?

We don't know since the manga hasn't answered that question. Sukuna's fingers are Cursed Objects containing pieces of his soul so make of that what you will.

Is Gojo really dead?

Yep, looks like he is.

What is Kenjaku's plan with the Culling Game?

In short, he's using the Culling Games to produce a lot of Cursed Energy within its Barriers, with which he plans to use to evolve the human race. He wants to create a new golden age of Jujutsu. Kenjaku has apparently not revealed all his plans, Yuki cast suspicion on Tengen (the Culling Game plan infodumper) before they fought, and Kenjaku called Tengen his "friend", so it's unclear if Tengen was entirely truthful. We don't yet know how Sukuna fits into this plan, even though he and Kenjaku have been cooperating.

What is Ijichi's Cursed Technique?

How naive of you to ask. He wouldn't cheat by giving it away.

Logically he should have used it against sukuna.

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Is Toji stronger than Ijichi? Would Sukuna beat Ijichi in a fight? Compared to Ijichi, is Kenjaku really a Special Grade threat?

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Overall thesis for this project: Godzilla and Mothra create the cultural context of creatives using powerful monsters (or kaiju) to disrupt Japanese bureaucracy and society, usually to make some larger criticism.

In a post-Godzilla Japan, the kaiju character, the monster, often challenges and disrupts the stability of the status quo. The disruption often exposes negative traits and limitations of those in power, criticizing the authority’s abilities. The kaiju might act as a party separated from other warring factions; the kaiju might be integrated into one or more of the story’s main factions; and finally, there can be more than one kaiju present, each with their own individual goals. In All-Out Attack, Godzilla appears first. To stop Godzilla from destroying Japan, the three gurdian deities must be summoned: Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. I argue that the kaiju narrative not only exists beyond cinema, but that Japanese creatives use certain specifications from older works to reimagine the classic plot of Gojira (1954).

As a kaiju, Gojo represents the eventual need to step beyond the limitations those in power place on an individual. Anything with more power than the self-preserving sovereign will be seen as a threat (Rika possesses Yuta, Yuji hosts Sukuna, and both are sentenced to death). Gojo’s mastery of jujutsu, and his massacre of the Higher-Ups, demonstrates a scenario where a person can evolve beyond the system. Gege uses Gojo to argue that justice or an ideal fairness cannot be found in the self-preserving system, because it will always choose to neutralize or eliminate the possibility of something greater than itself, regardless of whether it be a force of good or bad. After Shibuya, the Higher-Ups sought to contain Gojo like they have Sukuna: trapped in a cursed object, and finally beholden to their unmerciful control.

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Beyond the usual conventions of the kaiju narrative that I’ve discussed until now, there exists another important factor. The kaiju narrative must always place Japan under threat of destruction from a great power, usually by a monster. Absinthe makes the point that in the kaiju film narrative, Japan will almost always be the victim. He says that “In Gojira the monster destroys and shatters Tokyo but importantly stays and even in Mosura [(Mothra, 1961)] and Gamera [(1965)] there is this sense that the monster has taken over,” emphasizing the importance for one or more of the kaiju to threaten Japan’s freedom and sustentation. Demon City Shinjuku released in 1982, and was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri; the animated movie depicts Shinjuku, a special ward of Tokyo, being destroyed by Rebi Ra, then overrun by demons. During World War 2, the 1945 Tokyo air raids destroyed a vast majority of Shinjuku’s infrastructure, but the railways and transit remained mostly intact. The enduring transit system aided in Shinjuku becoming the metropolitan area it exists as today.

Anime and manga overtly reference Shinjuku’s dark history, often using it as a site where demons or misfortune strikes. Meta-textually, even when removed from its history as a victim of air raids, it exists near Tokyo. Placing misfortune within Shinjuku communicates the near collapse of Tokyo, Japan’s heart. In Code Geass, the Britannian army destroyed Shinjuku via air raids. In the story’s present, Shinjuku remains as a ruined ghetto in the now occupied Japan, which was renamed Area 11 after its defeat by Britannia. Moving past all the implications of Code Geass’ story, I want to focus on Gege’s use of Shinjuku as a battlefield within JJK. The final arc of JJK was titled “The Decisive Battle in the Uninhabited, Demon-Infested Shinjuku,” effectively marking Shinjuku as a ‘demon city.’ “Demon-Infested Shinjuku” reads as a clever nod to Kawajiri, and also an important framing for the battle taking place between Sukuna and the remaining cast; everyone uses every skill they have as they participate in a clash of titans that tears the city apart. If he defeats the cast, Sukuna unleashes an unstoppable monster that will destroy Tokyo, then the rest of the world after.

In modern Japanese pop culture, Shinjuku serves as an example of a trope developed through repetition across titles. Not only does Shinjuku itself act as a trope to depict a losing battle against a stronger enemy (Gojo’s defeat against Sukuna), but also as an interchangeable setting to convey an approximate danger looming over Tokyo, and more importantly, Japan. Like in All-Out Attack, the other monsters gather to defend Japan from Sukuna, the king. In both titles, the monsters do not fight to protect the Japanese government or care about it’s infrastructure. The cast of monsters reduce parts of Tokyo to rubble in their fights; they must, to convey the threat that Japan faces in this awesome battle between kaiju. In All-Out Attack, the guardian deities’ motivations were mostly unknown, except for a desire to kill Godzilla. In JJK’s “Demon-Infested Shinjuku,” the cast members come from all different walks of life, and have their own goals in mind, but they all agree that Sukuna needs to die for one reason or another.

In Jujutsu Kaisen, the kaiju takes many roles. Sukuna throws Japan’s government into disarray with a devastating attack that wipes Shibuya off the face of the earth. Maki destroys an important pillar of jujutsu society’s government. Gojo puts the final nail in the coffin and kills the bureaucratic powers. The kaijus act within and outside of the established government. The kaiju most importantly exposes the weakness of the setting’s government, and in the case of anime and manga, the sovereign will almost always be a bureaucratic system.

Notes:

• What’s funny is that Yaga got the boot for simply being responsible for Gojo and Geto. They were MAD!
• I think a vast majority of anime fans doubt the influence that World War 2 has on Japanese pop culture, and especially anime and manga.
• Someone once mentioned to me somethin about Gege’s interest in urban areas and infrastructure. I hope this person finds this update interesting!
• Sukuna section(s) next!

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• Low-effort posts will still be removed.
• Leaks still need to stay in the pre-release megathread.

Go nuts!

This sub is catered to quality, in-depth manga discussion, so please post questions that have simple manga answers here. If you don't have 500 comment karma yet, you can post here too.

Hot Topics:

Where can I read leaks?

Read Rule #3 on the sidebar for where and when to find leaks on Twitter, Discord, and fanscan sites (TCB and Shishiso scans). DON'T post leaks outside of the pre-release megathread when you find them. Don't post them in this thread.

Where can I read the official Fanbook/Databook?

Scans and translations here and searchable text here. Also on the sidebar and sub wiki.

What is Uraume's gender?

Uraume's gender is currently unconfirmed.

What would happen if Yuji ate another Sukuna finger?

We don't know since the manga hasn't answered that question. Sukuna's fingers are Cursed Objects containing pieces of his soul so make of that what you will.

Is Gojo really dead?

Yep, looks like he is.

What is Kenjaku's plan with the Culling Game?

In short, he's using the Culling Games to produce a lot of Cursed Energy within its Barriers, with which he plans to use to evolve the human race. He wants to create a new golden age of Jujutsu. Kenjaku has apparently not revealed all his plans, Yuki cast suspicion on Tengen (the Culling Game plan infodumper) before they fought, and Kenjaku called Tengen his "friend", so it's unclear if Tengen was entirely truthful. We don't yet know how Sukuna fits into this plan, even though he and Kenjaku have been cooperating.

What is Ijichi's Cursed Technique?

How naive of you to ask. He wouldn't cheat by giving it away.

One of the main problems towards the end of the Shinjuku showdown was the overuse of Sukuna’s technique, not just literally, but narratively. In order to make Sukuna’s final domain expansion work, and add variety to Sukuna’s technique, Gege had to introduce to the readers a complicated series of binding vows. I’m sure the 10-20% of readers who completely understand the binding vows enjoyed it. However, I bet most readers tried their best to understand, failed, and then chalked it up to “well I guess this is happening somehow.” 

While simple is not necessarily better, I do think a majority of the fanbase having to suspend their belief to experience the last elements of Sukuna’s fight took away from what are supposed to be emotionally impactful and “hype” moments. Because I had trouble understanding how, Sukuna's final domain expansion did not get me out of my seat, and I was more like “oh. I guess that makes sense” (the thermobaric explosion was amazing, but how he opened the domain in the first place was not compelling). This is in contrast to say, Mahito’s 0.2 second domain expansion, which is simple to understand but had adequate buildup from Gojo’s example, making all the readers go “oh s***!!”

A simple fix to me would be using Higuruma’s technique to take away Sukuna’s technique for a bit at the beginning, and having him fight with Kamutoke for a while instead. We got to see the curse tool a bit against Kashimo, but it ultimately had no purpose other than to show off Kashimo’s resistance to lighting and raise the stakes of Kashimo’s fight. There is already a lack of curse tool usage in the series, so seeing Sukuna demonstrate how to maximize the effectiveness of a curse tool (with his four arms) would have been SO cool to see. If you want to make it even cooler, have Sukuna double-wield both Kamutoke AND Hiten (made by Yorozu or brought by Uruame). Seeing Hiten’s capabilities would have been a nice way to see Sukuna’s full range of abilities back in the Heian era. What made Sukuna’s fight against Gojo so interesting was his clever use of Megumi’s techniques, so a curse tool section of the fight would have added variety to the slash fest. 

Never got to see this glorious combo

More importantly however, taking away Shrine for a bit (using Higuruma’s technique) would have provided a simpler explanation for Sukuna’s domain expansion and technique usage towards the end of the fight. Gege could explain that Sukuna’s brain and technique were partially recovered during his technique’s confiscation, or something similar. The main change would be the role of Higuruma; have Higuruma confiscate Shrine, stay alive for longer in the fight, and then have Shrine return by finally killing Higuruma. Then, to balance the fight, have the cast destroy/take away Sukuna’s curse tools right before he kills Higuruma and gets his technique back. Ik this rewrite isn’t perfect, but I would trust Gege's writing ability to make it work somehow. 

What does everyone think?

TLDR: Having Sukuna fight with Kamutoke and Hiten for a while because Shrine was confiscated would have added variety to the fight, and provided a simpler explanation for Sukuna’s CT recovery and DE. 

Welcome to Ijichi's Colosseum, the r/Jujutsushi bloodbath curse pit where sorcerers can throw hands over hypothetical Jujutsu matchups! We've moved the thread back to Tuesday as per user feedback.

Is Toji stronger than Ijichi? Would Sukuna beat Ijichi in a fight? Compared to Ijichi, is Kenjaku really a Special Grade threat?

Sate your powerscaling urges here!

Yes, it's me again because I miss Jujutsu Kaisen. I was just wondering as a community and since Gege is free from deadlines as far as we know once the two final volumes release in December, what anime original content do you think we'll be receiving and extended upon in the animation of the series going forward? Like we know how much help he was in production of s2 and s1. Jujutsu Strolls and Answering questions from production, specifically Gosso, and storyboarding some original scenes, so what do you think we'll be getting.

What would you want to see extended upon going forward or think is likely?

This list is what I think is likely personally:

- Better culling game explanation.
- More dialogue between characters and better pacing of those scenes in particular. Specifically the hotel scene with Hana, Yuji, Takaba, and Megumi, and Yuji and Yuta convo.
- More fight added to Zeni'n massacre and maybe more Mai and Maki flashbacks during the fight.
- Maybe some Tsumiki character expansion in terms of flashbacks for Megumi, specifically in his fight with Kirara and Reggie.
- Yaga vs Gakuganji fight shown and if not that, more depth put into Yaga for his death episode.
- More scenes added for Kenjaku's plan and Military invasion.
- Choso / Yuki/ Kenjaku fight extended.
- More Gojo scenes sprinkled into season 3.
- Maki and Itadori's fight with Sukuna at the end extended.
- A lot of fights will be extended in Shinjuku Showdown, the ones who benefit from this most are Maki and Choso in my honest opinion. Miguel too.
- More parodies and references in Kenjaku vs Takaba.
- Uraume and Hakari fight shown - even if it cuts away or shows no winner because as we know in the manga there isn't one.
- A scene of Gojo actually being the one to slaughter the higher ups.

The rest are what I hope we get, but less likely:

- More character interactions,
- Explanation of Todo somewhere in the culling games without revealing/spoiling his appearance in Shinjuku Showdown. He is a fan-favorite and I feel this is necessary.
- When Gojo is released from the box, we get filler episodes like Demon Slayer did instead of the timeskip.
- Higuruma and Itadori's 'final' talk extended.
- Todo hearing about Yuki's death.
- Better explanation of Nobara's arrival in Shinjuku showdown or at least implied moments of her sprinkled throughout the culling games or at least a half episode of her waking up and being told everything / her reaction.
- On screen resolution of Yujo.
- Lead up finale chapters handled way better with everyone getting their moments instead of one panels then cut aways.
- Final narration of Gojo at the end of Jujutsu Kaisen and how the new generation carried on his dream. Or Itadori narrating it.
- An episode dedicated to the death of Gojo like Nobara's was handled.
- Same with Choso's death.
- Expansion of Hana as a character.
- Sukuna and Megumi's final scene heavily extended.
- Itadori and Gojo's talk extended.

I know JJK's ending was met with a lot of negatively but I personally loved the ending and how the cycle was broken. I liked the end to the three pillar's of the manga's character arcs. I thought the lead up was a tonal whiplash and a fumble, imho, but the final chapter brought it home for me.

I know Jujutsu Kaisen's anime will fix the pacing since we know Gege missed 3 weeks of chapters due to his surgery and sudden sickness, so I know the awkward pacing in the manga left more to be desired, and while I don't expect the volumes to have any extra pages to fill in the gaps, I just think back to the freedom Gege Akutami has and all the Jujutsu Strolls he storyboarded to get us attached to the characters. Things will be fixed.

That aside, man, do I miss the fucking series. There is a lot of flaws within the manga and disappointment people feel with the entirety of it, but I miss it a lot. I miss the theorizing. I miss the characters, I miss the choreography, the story beats, I miss it all. I've read a lot of manga and still do, but I'm still here missing Jujutsu Kaisen every week since it's been gone.

I was wondering who else misses the series. Do any of you miss it and what, despite your gripes?

I'm holding onto a faint glimmer of hope for JUMP FESTA in December that we'll get inevitable info for the compilation hidden inventory movie, the culling games, and maybe a spin-off announcement for Jujutsu Kaisen or AT LEAST a one shot since even Demon's Slayers mangaka did a few before tapping out of the series completely.

Jujustu Kaisen part 2 is nearly impossible, but would move mountains. GOD. I miss it so much.

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It's Friday so I can post my random thoughts.

We've all seen it before. An anime introduces a power system and a key part of that power system is some kind of zenith ability. A power or transformation that is the absolute peak of what someone in the verse can do and we're told it's beyond rare. Like 1 in a million prodigy that only appears once every thousand years can hope to achieve this power. Then a couple arcs later everyone and their mama has rapidly learned how to use this power but in jjk that's not the case. Gege actually stuck to his guns regarding how rare domains are and we actually end up with very few domain expansions in the series( I think like 16).

This really hit me when in shibuya I realized that despite the jujutsu technical school calling in almost all of their forces only 2 people ( gojo and megumi) could use domain expansion. 2 people. A stark contrast to team disaster which had a whopping total of 5 domain users. It really stands out to me because in any other anime figures like nanami, mei mei, and todo would have definitely had a domain expansion. I was honestly shocked that naobito didn't have a domain expansion because in any other anime a figure like him would be guaranteed to have a domain ( old man, head of one of the 3 great clans, the main foil to maki) and yet nothing. Come to think this same logic applies to Gakuganji( old and high status). Gege really spat on the classic old man is actually a monster anime troupe.

Things do shift a bit in the culling games with yoruzu, higurama, uro, and ryu having domains but still we have the likes of angel, urame, and kashimoto some of the strongest from the heian era without one. Yet they still showed amazing fights and challenged their opponents in other ways.

Anyways I just gotta give gege some props for sticking to his guns and not handing out domain expansions left and right.

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Overall thesis for this project: Godzilla and Mothra create the cultural context of creatives using powerful monsters (or kaiju) to disrupt Japanese bureaucracy and society, usually to make some larger criticism.

More than anything, Gojo hates a conservative government. Gege argues that only a monster can destroy the (conservative) bureaucratic system; that destruction takes both immense power, and the resolve to wield it. Maki, Gojo, and Sukuna perform massacres against the system after having to overcome systemic hurdles before they achieve their goal. Maki was first killed by the patriarchal powers of the system. Sukuna’s power was suppressed by the sloppy, but effective tactics of the Higher-Ups to keep his fingers separate. Gojo played by the system’s rules and became a teacher, but was ultimately betrayed by the Higher-Ups after being sealed; they branded him as a traitor and tried to turn his students against him. Gojo fought for years as a teacher to change the system from the inside. He held onto the belief that he would be enough to change the system that hurt his friends in the past, but not even his power could effectively defeat the conservative powers without getting his hands dirty. With all his strength, Gojo was forced to make the hard decision to destroy the system, much like Maki. For Gege, a monster, or kaiju, uses their immense power to disrupt the rigid systems set by the conservative bureaucrats afraid of change.

When I think of Gojo, I think of the students he fought to protect and nurture. Yuta was a cursed child who the Higher-Ups and Geto wanted to kill. Hakari was an outcast unable to use normal cursed techniques like anyone else. Maki was an estranged Zenin without cursed energy or a technique. Megumi was an abandoned child with no one but the Zenin to go to. Yuji was another kid with nowhere to go, and was constantly targeted by the Higher-Ups.

Gojo protected all of the previously mentioned students while teaching them to defend themselves. He taught as a teacher with the sole purpose of his students some day surpassing him and changing the system. His hope for his students to surpass him could be read as an indication of Gojo seeing his own shortcomings as an effective apparatus for change from within the system. Here, “the system” means jujutsu society, and Japan at large.

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Gojo tries and fails to change the system from the inside. He plays by the system’s rules and hopes that with all his power, he can protect his students, but the Higher-Ups prove him wrong. Despite all the power he wields, he can’t protect Yuji from the powers-that-be. Both Sukuna and the Higher-Ups manage to kill Yuji at least once.

Gojo stretches himself thin trying to fill in all the gaps that the Higher-Ups create, save as many lives as possible, while also swearing to change the system from the inside out. Maybe by raising a new generation that goes beyond the boundaries set by the Higher-Ups, Gojo thought he would finally change the world.

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For the teacher that relies on his students to be the means in which they make a difference (be it to the system, or the world), the students become their greatest weakness. The Higher-Ups use the system to weaken his students, and ultimately Gojo as well. Imagine the difference someone like Hakari might have made in Shibuya if he hadn’t been discouraged from seeking an education? Gojo sending Yuta away could be read as his attempt to save his student from the bureaucrats’ meddling. Comparatively, Gojo hid that Yuji was alive from everyone to train him in secret, away from the eyes of the Higher-Ups; when Yuji did return, the Higher-Ups proved Gojo right by immediately trying to have Gakuganji’s students kill him again.

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Gojo’s fight was less about the force of his strength, but more so his ability to protect his students from the systems of power threatening their lives. That’s the thing about Infinity: Gojo might be untouchable, but his students don’t have that luxury. Even worse, what happens when the infallible teacher makes a mistake? The students have to step up and finally fly on their own. Yuta, Maki, Hakari, and Yuji’s trusted with carrying on Gojo’s fight, but only after he finally makes the tough decision to get rid of the Higher-Ups. For Gojo, killing the Higher-Ups, dismantling that conservative system, was a necessary step for his students to have their freedom.

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Notes:

• Did not know this would be split into two(?) parts but okay lol. I needed to set some groundwork for my personal reading of Gojo because I don’t see anyone talking about Gojo like I have in this post. No one ever focuses on his role as a teacher being the most important aspect of his character, so I felt that really needed it’s own space first and foremost. Next part will be more about the kaiju reading and Gojo’s anti-bureaucracy. I’m really interested in looking into Japan’s teachers’ education movements against the ministry of education. I feel like Gojo would be a valuable comparison at the very least.
• Hope you guys enjoy this one

Introduction - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 3a

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What would happen if Yuji ate another Sukuna finger?

We don't know since the manga hasn't answered that question. Sukuna's fingers are Cursed Objects containing pieces of his soul so make of that what you will.

Is Gojo really dead?

Yep, looks like he is.

What is Kenjaku's plan with the Culling Game?

In short, he's using the Culling Games to produce a lot of Cursed Energy within its Barriers, with which he plans to use to evolve the human race. He wants to create a new golden age of Jujutsu. Kenjaku has apparently not revealed all his plans, Yuki cast suspicion on Tengen (the Culling Game plan infodumper) before they fought, and Kenjaku called Tengen his "friend", so it's unclear if Tengen was entirely truthful. We don't yet know how Sukuna fits into this plan, even though he and Kenjaku have been cooperating.

What is Ijichi's Cursed Technique?

How naive of you to ask. He wouldn't cheat by giving it away.

This post will try to answer some questions regarding the lore of the story with the help of statements about the timeline. The statements are generally not precise, so i will make some assumptions.

Disclaimer: I usually use an imgur hyperlink for all the statements that I use, so that way there's no doubt about their validity. However, this post is so long that I found it a waste of time to add hyperlinks, especially since most information is well known. Therefore, ask in the comments if you are wondering where I took any piece of information and i will attach the imgur hyperlink in a reply

1. Introduction to Tengen, the six eyes and the star plasma vessel

Let's begin with tengen. He is a sorcerer with the innate curse technique of immortality. However, she still ages so after 500 years she needs to reset her body by merging with a human that she is compatible, called a star plasma vessel. Because it is a matter of aging, tengen shouldn't need to merge every 500 years, but when the star plasma vessel reaches 500 years of age. That means that the interval between the merges is less than 500 years.

The six eyes are a rare characteristic that appears in the gojo clan. As confirmed by shoko, it is not an innate curse technique, it is more like an anatomical feature. This means that it cannot be copied, so it is reasonable to assume that you can only be born with it.

Tengen states that there cannot be two possessors of the six eyes at the same time, and the interview that gege has given regarding the three great clans stated that this is due to a binding vow. Because it has been established that it is an anatomical feature, it means that once one six eyes user dies, another gojo clan member needs to be conceived and born for the six eyes to reappear. It cannot manifest into an already born human.

A star plasma vessel is a person who is compatible with tengen. This compatibility seems to be related to an anatomical feature as well, as once tengen has evolved beyond a flesh body he was able to merge with anybody. We know that yuki is also a star plasma vessel, and tengen confirms that there were even more star plasma vessels at the time of riko's death. Therefore, you cannot become a star plasma vessel, but there also isn't any rule that there can only be one.

2. Tengen's mergers

Hidden inventory takes place in August 2006, so tengen's previous mergers should be during 1506 + the star plasma vessel's age, and 1006 + 2 star plasma vessels age. Looking at the images of the previous star plasma vessels, it doesn't seem like they were teenagers such as riko was. Let's assume that they were 30 years old when they merged. That would imply that the key dates for Tengen are:

• 2006: failed merger

• 1536: second merger

• 1066: first merger

• 566: born

It is implied when tengen was talking about not being able to hear the star plasma vessels in the story that there have only been two star plasma vessels whom tengen merged with. If we combine that with tengen spreading jujutsu and Buddhism during the nara period (710-795), then we can infer that there have been exactly two mergers in the past.

3. The six eyes user from 500 years ago

Gojo was born in thr year 1989, and the fanbook lists this as being the first time in 400 years since the gojo clan had the six eyes, and also the first time in 400 years since the last six eyes limitless user. That implies that the last user died in 1589.

We heard from gojo that the previous six eyes limitless user died against the ten shadows user during the keicho period (1596-1615) or the edo period (1603-1868). This isn't exactly the same as the previously mentioned death time of the six eyes limitless user, but gojo acknowledges that he doesn't remember it exactly so being only about 10 years off in a 430 years interval is reasonable.

The question is, was this the same six eyes user who defeated kenjaku, or did that one die and another user was born afterwards? The fight against kenjaku would have happened in 1536, 53 years before the match between the gojo and zenin clan heads. Considering that naobito was an active sorcerer at 71 years old, and gakuganji is an active sorcerer at 76 years old, i don't see any reason why the gojo clan wouldn't be active at old age as well. Gojo was 16 years old during the merger, so if the previous user was of the same age during his merger, he would be 69 years old at that time of his death.

It is worth mentioning that the previous user was probably even younger at the time of his merger. That's because kenjaku had killed the initial six eyes user right when they were born, so there would have probably been been 1 year until the next one was born. That would make him only 15 years old instead of gojo's 16 years old, so he would be 68 years old at the time of the match with the zenin clan head.

The conclusion of this section is that there is more than a decade of leeway with the timeline for the gojo clan head who died against the zenin clan head to have been the same one as the one that defeated kenjaku. Therefore, i will assume that they are the same.

A tangential conclusion is that the six eyes aren't bound by fate to tengen just so they always appear during the merger, but that they only appear during the merger. The six eyes wouldn't randomly pop up otherwise, which would mean that there have only been 4 six eyes users in history, being in accordance with there being an interval of 400 years since the two last six eyes users.

4. The six eyes user from 1000 years ago

There isn't much we explicitly know about this user. We only know that they have defeated kenjaku when he tried to prevent the first merger. However, if we assume that there have indeed only been 4 six eyes users, then we can gain further insights.

Gojo has mentioned that the limitless cursed technique has a user manual due to previous users. A non six eyes limitless user wouldn't be able to use limitless ct to unlock red and purple, so it was a six eyes user before gojo who unlocked these and left them in gojo's clan records. We can cross out the baby, so this leaves the first and the third six eyes users as the candidates.

We do have one more clue. The third six eyes user had died to an untamed mahoraga, so it is highly unlikely that he was able to use purple as gojo stated that even a red would one shot an unadapted mahoraga. Moroever, that was a spectated match so purple wouldn't be a secret even in the gojo clan if zenin clan members had seen it used during that match. Therefore, the third six eyes user couldn't have been the one to unlock purple, so that leaves the first six eyes user.

That establishes that the first six eyes users had the limitless curse technique, and also that he unlocked it to at least awakened gojo levels. This makes sense as this would have happened during the heian era, so he would have gone through a lot of battles. The third six eyes user would have probably been the strongest sorcerer in his era even without awakening (similarly to how gojo was before toji), so there wouldn't have been the battle to the death to force him to unlock reverse curse technique.

5. Tengen's barriers

Tengen's bariere serve multiple purposes, but the only ones relevant for this section are the ability to calibrate the barrier techniques of assistant managers and the ability to sense people/things inside the barriers.

We know that tengen has the latter ability due to him saying that he didn't know of the fate of the inverted spear of heaven due to it being overseas, and of the prison realm for the same reason. He is able to sense the star plasma vessel when they are born, was able to see sukuna's open barrier domain is shibuya, was able to see that kenjaku entered Japan with the prison realm 6 years ago, and was able to see angel before she entered the culling games barrier. What that implies is that tengen must have laid his pure barriers before the first merger happened as he wouldn't have been able to locate the star plasma vessel otherwise.

Kenjaku states in chapter 220 that tengen could have stopped the culling games if he had just deactivated the pure barriers. However, that would mean undoing 1000 years of barrier technique know-how. This is in line with the previous estimation based on the merger, so we can infer that the pure barriers were laid around 1000AD. This would probably coincide with the birth of the gojo clan as we know that the six eyes only appear in the gojo clan and that they are bound by fate to the merger.

6. Kenjaku

This is when it starts to get more speculative.

Firstly, we know that kenjaku has fought the first and the third six eyes users during the first two mergers. Because the pure barriers would have already been laid, Tengen would have been able to see those battles and was almost certainly watching them, so he would be aware of everything kenjaku did in those battles. However, he expressed in chapter 206 surprise at kenjaku expanding an open barrier domain. This implies that kenjaku hasn't done such thing against the six eyes users.

This is in line with gojo not being aware of open barrier domains. Gojo has access to the gojo clan archives, so if previous six eyes users had witnessed open barrier domains, they would have recorded it in their archives (like they did the manual for limitless with red and purple, falling blossom emotion, how the ten shadows work and so on). Therefore, there are two sources for kenjaku never using an open barrier domain.

Moroever, we established how all six eyes users would have the limitless cursed technique, so infinity. The way to bypass infinity is to use domain amplification, but gojo was not aware of it during chapter 84 (he says things such as "looks like it's similar to nss simple domain", "maybe it's similar to the feeling...", and he has to guess that you cannot use your innate ct at the same time as domain amplification). This would imply that kenjaku has not used it during the previous battles with the six eyes.

I propose that domain amplification has not been invented at that time, and that kenjaku specifically invented it to deal with gojo in the modern era. This would be in line with kenjaku being surprised by the strength of the first six eyes user, then resorting to killing the second six eyes user as a baby, and then being surprised by the third six eyes users appearing out of nowhere (so he wouldn't have made preparations to fight him). It is only in the modern era that he was fully aware of limitless's abilities and had to devise a plan to fight around it.

This is consistent with domain amplification not being well known. Hollow wicker basket, nss simple domain and falling blossom emotion were all anti-domain techniques devised in the heian era, and all of them are still "popular" and well known in the modern era. If domain amplification was used in the heian era, you'd expect modern era sorcerers to know about it (or at least the reincarnated heian era sorcerers).

7. Sukuna

The previous conclusion would also imply that sukuna did not know domain amplification during the heian era, and learned it during the timeskip from kenjaku. This is supported by him having the quick scuffle with gojo in chapter 2 snd realizing that gojo has an unusual technique, but not using domain amplification.

When tengen sees kenjaku's open barrier domain, he exclaims that it is the same type of domain sukuna used in shibuya. This implies that tengen saw it for the first time in shibuya, so he was not aware of sukuna using an open barrier domain in the heian era. That means that sukuna was active in the heian era before tengen's barriers were put up. This is in line with him not being aware of the limitless ct and the ten shadows ct, as the three big clans appeared around the same time as tengen's barriers around 1000 years ago.

Besides that, we know from chapter 238 that sukuna has fought the remnants of the sugawara clan. In real life, the sugawara clan lost influence when Sugawara no Michizane died in 903, so I assume that gege took inspiration from from this and the remnants of the sugawara clan were from a few decades after sugawara no michizane's death. This would mean that sukuna was active in the early to mid 900'. This would be the period when uraume, yorozu, uro and angel all lived in.

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There are more things that could be discussed, but the post is already long enough. I will probably make more posts in the future that will use this as a foundation

Despite the stakes mfer was grinning like a kid the whole fight, making jokes and etc, and we all know that gojo is kind of a psycho that gets off to jujutsu, so having this one of a life chance to fight against the strongest sorceror ever and being pushed to his limits (something that never has happened in his entire live) must had been a blast to him, am i wrong to assume that the shinjuku showdown was the most fun he has ever had in his life?

Welcome to Ijichi's Colosseum, the r/Jujutsushi bloodbath curse pit where sorcerers can throw hands over hypothetical Jujutsu matchups! We've moved the thread back to Tuesday as per user feedback.

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All translations are used from TCB Scans. Please point out any inaccuracies.

#Presenting Information

During their Domain Clashes, Sukuna shifted the burden of adaptation to Unlimited Void to Megumi's Soul.

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But how? Manga explains: "Sure-hit Effect Targeting Sukuna was still in place. He continued to take on Unlimited Void five times while shouldering the burden of Mahoraga's Adaption"

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However, I was personally interested in the lines before that.: "Gojo Satoru's Sure-hit effect targeted everything within the domain. Sukuna's Sure-hit effect, however, targeted everything within the domain except himself". We are led to believe that Sukuna's part is unique. As such, it is fair to make an assumption that Gojo's sure-hit targets himself as well.

But then, there's also this line.

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Some questions arise from these statements

• Is it a contradiction, that Gojo and anyone he touches directly are unaffected by UV if UV's sure-hit targets everything within the domain, including Gojo himself?
• If Sukuna had targeted himself with his domain, would he have hit himself with his slashes?
• By not targeting himself with his sure-hit effect, Sukuna was able to maintain Unlimited Void's sure-hit effect on Megumi Fushiguro, but why wasn't he hit with it?
• How did Megumi help Mahoraga adapt to Unlimited Void?

#Important details

I believe that the answer to these questions can be explained with two statements:

1. The inside of the body is like a domain

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2. No matter how simple a domain is a domain

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How do these statements help?

A domain is still domain, regardless of how simple it is. The inside of one's body acts the same as a simple domain. It cancels out the sure-hit effect inside it. However it is important to note, that sure-hit is still targeting the inside of the domain, but has no effect.

It's also probably an idea for another post, but domains have unique features, especially in terms of targeting. Some have manual targeting, some target everything within them. Unlimited Void is the latter, targeting even Gojo Satoru himself. But he and anyone he touches are not being affected by it, even though they are being targeted.

#Answers to questions prior

1. No, it's not a contradiction. The touching Gojo part is a feature that is unique to the nature of Unlimited Void and is a topic outside of being targeted by your own sure-hit effect.

The main point is: Being targeted is not the same as being affected by something.

If you were to make a comparison with a colouring book, Gojo would paint everything on the drawing, including himself. But the parts that would be affected by it are only parts that are

2. No, he wouldn't have been. In fact, for Sukuna himself nothing would've changed if he didn't exempt himself. Since by 'himself' we mean the inside of Sukuna's body, it not being targeted is redundant as sure-hit can't affect the inside of someone's body

3. From question 1 we know that being targeted is not the same as being affected by that thing. As such Sukuna saw no need to have his sure-hit effect target the inside of his body. He wouldn't have been hit by UV regardless, because for that UV would have to hit the outline of his body, not inside of it.

4. Sukuna being or not being targeted by his own sure hit effect is of no consequence to himself in terms of protecting from UV. But because he didn't protect himself, the inside of his body is still being targeted by UV, just not being affected. Because Megumi's soul is in the same coordinates as Sukuna's body it was targeted by UV as well.

It's not confirmed, nor is it important if Megumi's soul was damaged by Unlimited Void. Because he was still being targeted by it he could take on the process of adaptation anyway,

#Last part

I lied about it all being TCB. And that's because one part elludes me in translation. Here are versions by TCB and John Werry:

TCB

Official

Frankly speaking, none of them make sense to me. The TCB says that Mahoraga won't save Sukuna even if he tried? Even though Mahoraga would simply destroy UV again, before Gojo would destroy it with one hit?

The official speaks of how bringing out Mahoraga is a necessity for Sukuna at that point and makes similar statement of how Gojo would simply destroy it before it will destroy UV.

Both are similar, but what baffles me is what does Megumi's soul not adapting to UV actually mean? If you have ideas on this please tell me.

Otherwise, this is the end of my analysis.

#Artistic explanation that I hope makes sense

Next is my amazing painting skills in how I see difference in targeting and affecting in UV and Malevolent Shrine

Blue - Unlimited Void

Red - Malevolent Shrine

Purple - they overlap and cancel each other out

Unlimited Void targeting vs affecting

Malevolent Shrine targeting vs affecting

Targeted during their clash

Affected during the clash

Please don't hesistate to correct me, point out my mistakes, or ask any questions