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@@letsreadtextbook1687 Exactly my point. Heavenly Restrictions are still a mechanic of CE, so even though they don't have the energy they are still very much beholdened to the system, they are not outside of it.
@@letsreadtextbook1687 Every average human still emits a small amount of cursed energy. Only Maki and Toji are completely 100% CE free. Is it a coincidence that the only people born without CE have the literal same heavenly restriction, or is it safe to assume that not having a CE means oneself can reach the true physical capability of a human?
smh dogshit writing I couldve seen everything coming before i even read the manga and if i didn't then it shouldn't have happen my headcannon is simply far superior smh smh gege could never
Fr Ppl just sh*t on him bcuz they don't get what theu want from his story so they can't push their agendas. Like....Boo Hoo! If you want a sh*t story like that then gi watch mha or demon slayer💀
100% dead they mentioned they took his body so they will do something with it (removing the eyes or momentary revive) but Gojo as a character is over, but id like to be wrong
Toji’s curse 15:17 was brought up again in his fight vs gojo “this uneasiness” and it fades into a picture of megumi. Megumi is a curse born from love. Megumi even said himself when fighting sukuna that he will save people unfairly embodying karma. Megumi will be the one to kill sukuna after swapping souls with Yuji completing yorozu’s quote: “unrivaled strength and the solitude that comes with it, the one who will teach you love is a curse born from it.”
Could you also argue that Yuji, born from Jin's desire to have a child with Kaori despite him knowing it wasn't her, would fit the description of a curse born from love? I'm just curious
i was watching the higaruma video, and the moment you said “i have a video about black boxes coming out” i saw this video was posted 3 seconds ago. i appreciate you, radman.
Gege excels at creating multifaceted characters with deep backstories and motivations. The complexity of these characters makes them relatable and engaging, driving the narrative forward.
Tbh besides the main cast and villains (like geto) good bunch of the side characters don't feel that complex. The story is good but what I like a lot about jjk is how the villains are extremely chaotic and unique like one piece villains.
Personally, I feel like we're never going to get every question answered about those dream sequences. I think we'll get a little elaboration, but I think that there's supposed to be some ambiguity. Like how Gojo's not sure if he's actually in the afterlife, or if he's just hallucinating. I think it would be a little gauche to confirm everybody gets to go to some kind of afterlife the way we think of it, and I think GeGe realizes that, but I also think GeGe felt it would be too cruel to say with certainty that it doesn't. And I think that uncertainty is an important part of Jujutsu Kaisen. The way that I see it, Yuji's last gateway he needs to pass through on his way through his character arc is to grow beyond the cog mentality. It's the thing I think of first when looking at Nanami's line about how "a curse can help you live." His cog mentality saved him from suicide, gave him the ability to keep going, but it robbed him of the ability to value himself as a human being and an individual. I don't think he can survive unless he accepts that he deserves the chance to live and want to be happy, even if those might not ultimately be granted to him. Even if Yuji does, in fact, die in the end, I think his character won't be complete unless he can accept that he doesn't deserve to die. Death just happens, and nobody deserves it even if it's what's waiting for them at the end. It's morally neutral. And I think there's just always been something really beautiful about how cursed energy as a power system is, at the bottom of it all, people taking their pain, misery, and every emotion they're taught is bad and that makes them worse for feeling it, and using it to achieve their ambitions and do good in the world. Taking anger and controlling it, accepting sorrow and fear and turning them into strength. I think the endgame is going to be turning everyone in Japan into a sorcerer, so they can protect themselves from the Merger and use their own darkness to carve a path for themselves through the world into the future.
the power system in jjk is intricate and well-thought-out. Cursed energy and the techniques derived from it are explained in a way that feels both unique and logical within the context of the story.
im glad you brought up the nanami “a curse can save you” bit because we see maki reflect on the curse mai left saying destroy everything. this was saving her or at least supporting her in tearing down the sexist and ableist monarch of jujutsu and cementing her role as someone who breaks free from cursed energy. that curse mai gave literally propelled maki to new heights.
We create the curses and in turn are cursed... then follow the path to end the samsaric cycle. The Four Noble Truths: - Suffering exists - The origin of suffering is in ourselves - Suffering can be ended or confined - The way out is the Eightfold Path of Buddha. Is this what Gege is presenting to us? What happens when the Eightfold Path fails?
Suffering can be ended or confined Hidden Inventory: Geto: Kill all non-sorcerers = ended. Tsumiki: teach all humans sorcerer = confined. Shibuya Incident: Kenjaku: Optimize cursed energy + merger = confined. Tsumiki: Destroy cursed energy itself = ended. Eightfold Path: boils down to truthfulness in conduct and mind, what better way to achieve full truth than a world without barriers between people or souls? The Merger.
I wonder if the Eightfold path of buddha has something to do with the Eight handled sword divergent sila divine general mahoraga, who has eight spheres on his wheel
@@Jonas-ox7eo Also funny you mention that about Mahoraga because I've had a running theory that Megumi (and Yuji) will initiate an ethical Merger, which merges all of cursed energy and binds it to the shadows, or something. Right now, "Megumi" is in control of Tengan, but since Sukuna is in Megumi's body, really the king is in charge. But what if Yuji used his soul punch on Tengan's fetal status and reawakened them?
Back here after the chapter leaks today... this chapter kind of proves this video is correct. A curse that's been placed on Yuta is that he would never be the second Satoru Gojo.... and then he switches bodies and LITERALLY becomes the second coming of Gojo. MAN..... this video was too good.
Sukuna and Kenny's domains have barriers, they just have an open barrier which allows anything to freely pass through and doesn't seperate the domain from reality.
This helps sum up the sukuna / yuji duality - sukuna is just the collection of curses imposed on himself, yuji is the sum curses placed upon him by others
This is a fascinating discussion I really appreciate content exploring the intentional presentation of a manga eluding to the themes and reveals down the line. I often theorize on these things for hours while I autopilot a work task. The relationship between personal interpretation of a sentiment and what makes something a curse deserves much more discussion in the community. I can't unsee the connection to binding vows and curses left on people. Yuji and Sukuna both seem to be empowered by binding vows and curses they were afflicted by yet turned to strengths through personal interpretation over the course of the series. Sukuna is aware of it by now but Yuji hasn't clocked it. Good vid, Rad
This is the first video I've ever watched of yours and it was very well put together. I'm ngl the "this nigga" completely caught me off guard 😂 for some reason I was NOT expecting that. Good laughs tho lol. Keep up the good stuff 👍
Gege's visual storytelling in Jujutsu Kaisen is a masterclass in how to use art to enhance narrative. It combines technical skill with a deep understanding of how visuals can convey complex emotions and dynamic action, making the series a standout
Its actually wild how prevelant the black box idea is in the story, even for Takaba, who started doing comedy so that he wouldn't be alone, is held back by the idea that he'll probably never be able to make everyone in the audience laugh, something he was told in his younger years, and those words appear in a black box later on in the chapter.
I love the interpretation of the dialogue in the black boxes being curses placed upon the characters, simply by being words spoken to them. Words can be extremely powerful, if they come from the right person, at the right time. All the examples you showed in the video, are pieces of dialogue the characters heard before, but they stayed in their mind, quite literally like a curse placed upon them.
I think the other examples make sense, however Toji with his Heavenly Restriction, the man who escaped curses, somehow is still able to make a curse to Gojo.
woah, reminds me of the “engrams” of the scientologists. The memory of traumatic events become bound to phrases that dictate the path of our lives unless you can unravel them. Yuji grasping the curse left by Nanami & using it to drive himself forward is how they can be used to Save someone, Gojos curse of strength & loneliness just might save the world…Great analysis man
I've always been fascinated by Sukuna's tattoos, the first time he used ■ which we know now to be furnace in the manga, I had a thought... Does his tattoos store curses that he can release when some condition is met or is it a result of some binding vow? Because, Sukuna's tattoos always kind of just appear on his skin like Kratos' curse or Ichigo's hollowfication, for Ichigo he turned it into "Salvation" when inherently being a hollow is to be "cursed"... same with Kratos' red tattoo, his ashy skin and the chains of the blades of chaos... Sukuna may be the villain, but he has these concepts that usually the protagonist embodies, in a perverted way. So when you mentioned how black boxes are curses, I thought "that would add to this fascination I've had over Sukuna's tattoos" and it seemingly being at least in my opinion, one of if not the reason why even though he lost 1,000 years ago, they simply couldn't completely kill him... and the reason why they call him the "king of curses". It could just be that as long as he is "cursed", he will exist in the world of the living. The best they could do is seal all those curses in his fingers. Rika is also called the "Queen of curses" but she's not particularly deserving of that title if you only look at her power-wise, but when you realize that she can as well store curses inside her, that Yuta can access, then it makes sense. Yuta loved Rika so much that he turned her into a curse, and she in turn as a curse, loved Yuta so much that she was willing and able to take upon herself curses for Yuta's sake. Sukuna though, takes curses and makes them his. Basically, an exaggerated form of "you carry curses that if you overcome, they empower you" (as discussed in this video)... Sukuna just owns the curses and naturally just rules over them, the only one he hasn't been able to break is the thought of Yuji and it seems Gojo as well (as hinted at in the recent chapter) I just wanted to throw this theory out as well. It's probably messy, but I think I got the point across decently. Loved the video, keep it up bro!
let me point out that the tattoos are portrayed very deliberately.Sukuna used to have 2 rings each on his arm,near his delts.After reincarnating as four-arms, the rings were split as one on each arm. Moreover, the only tattoo that is absent in his final form as opposed to meguna form and nephew emulator form are his forehead tattoos........those seem sus, don't you think.
@@nikhilv457 Hence why I said, they are "stored" somehow, as the more he uses them, the more they disappear slowly but surely. But the thing is, he could potentially just replenish the lost curses, refilling the tattoos so we may not have noticed some of the lines disappear at certain points.
Yup forehead and nose tat disappeared IDK why, id guess its cause in his heian form hes got 2 bodies so he no longer needed tattoos on his nose and face to compensate for only having 1 body as meguna @nikhilv457
I just want to add that I remember reading something that the tattoos on Sukuna are based on an Edo period punishment, where criminals would have tattoos placed onto them depending on their crime. It could be on Sukuna's backstory, on how he was weak, being weak enough where he had symbols etched on his skin out of his will. Or it could be about the crimes Sukuna committed against Jujutsu. Exploiting binding vows, treachery on Jujutsu by viewing it as a negative concept, and eating other people just for himself to become stronger just to name a few.i
(Future me..this isn't pitty me story just a way curse can be used as a force for betterment) I was abused in my formative yrs....thought i was weak,little to no worth, and felt like drugs could break me away.. i say this because theres been MANY situations where someone like me NEEDED to hear "i am you and look i am here and you can too" And i use that truama to help those who NEED it.. words help seeing one who over came and didnt surrender.. Curses can be of use to help those whom you understand you fully.
This was a great video. Your analysis had a great premise that was predicated on the themes and narrative of JJK, and your theory is definitely backed up by that. I definitely subscribe to this idea as well, now. Well done.
I always consider the dream sequences as souls resonating with each other and transcending reality and curses to the realm of "dreams". Like what happen with Takaba and Kenjaku resonating with each other.
OMG. I'm only 7 minutes deep in the video and i feel like it was tailor made for me. I've been wondering about for some time now about how CE, Black Flash and binding vows (and some other things) seemed to emanate something...alive or conscious, and also about those dream-like scenarios (Jogo's, Nanami's, Gojo's...ect.) being just a visual choice or having something that stands in "reality", wich long ago had the popular "Yuji's Memory powers" theory as a possible explanation but that i think has probably nothing to do with Yuji specifically. Great Video btw.
The animators who made the sukuna vs jogo fight couldnt animate the black box, so instead the blacked out the screen and made the entire screen a black box. Brilliant
I haven't finished the video yet, but I agree with you 1000%. You might mention it later in the video, but in my opinion is, how a sorcerer masters reverse cursed energy is related to their approach to the "negativity" around them. Gojo's attitude during his round 2 against Toji perfectly illustrates this point (and the whole fight for that matter) when he says he's not angry about Riko's death. It's at this point that he understands a new facet of cursed energy. It's about how you approach negativity: whether you're willing to embrace it, reject it (cursed spirit), or impose it, your mastery of cursed energy evolves. We don't talk about it often, but what did Tengen have to "impose" to limit the appearance of curse spririt only in Japan? Or rather, what did he impose on Japan and the world? and you mention about love being the most twisted curse remind me that in fact, the more accurate opposite of love might not be anger, but indifference. thanks for the video +1 subscriber !
If those visualization moments are tied to that Kenjaku quote about the cursed realm, perhaps those moments are precisely said: "between dream and reality". Not quite real, not quite made-up. On a mechanical level, I wouldn't be surprised if it were some kind of soul resonance like what Takaba's CT did, and we know the jujutsu system can pull off some magical stuff like with Judgeman so it's hardly farfetched
Curse realm is kinda Adolla from Fire Force - a manifistation of all human thoughts. The more you reach that realm, the more knowledge and power you gain.
Love manifest the most distorted curses or the most twisted. Well most most negative emotion come from love. Let me give an example. The person you love dislike/hate something or someone you will also hate/dislike it too. The person you love/trust break it sadness, rage or hate will come to play
The application of cursed of cursed energy is the recognition of a “system” That is why Toji broke fate with an absent dad and dead mother, he was a sociopath with a known condition that wasn’t explored and he didn’t recognize any system, but he still stood amongst cursed user A cursed technique is like genetic constellation marker
man, this is a rad ass theory!!! reminds me of Hundred’s theory of black flashes being summoned from the cursed realm. if you get a chance you should check it out, adds to and compliments a lot of the themes mentioned in this video.
After the main JJK manga ends it would be really cool if Gege did like side-stories about specific JJK characters. A mini manga series about Toji for example and his life in the Zenin clan. Or someone like Yuki who is so unexplored. I mean she was a former Star Plasma Vessel and did all this research abroad. This would erase one of my main criticisms about the JJK series. And it's that Gege doesn't spend enough time exploring some his characters. It probably won't happen and Gege will move on from JJK, but it would be really cool for a mangaka to do this. And would be something different.
when i was young i liked to talk bad about people, and my parents and teacher told me "be careful what you say, words are prayers and prayers are speeches for god" and your theory for what "curses" are made me remembered this lesson. (english is not my first language so im translating this the best i can)
The JJK power system is based on Bhuddhist teachings. The better you understand those teachings the richer your understanding of JJK worl will be. In any case, you missed the opportunity to refer to the conversation between Tsukumo and Geto. Sorcerers have the powers because they can naturally maintain their flow. This understanding is at the core of everything.
i have a working theory that the governing force of cursed energy is information theory, or "surprisal" and the Shannon entropy. this is why applications of cursed energy can encode or reproduce any form of information, but if something is merely a vehicle for that information it's at most an interface for putting that energy to use
24:49 i Believe what we saw in dream like sequences are innate domains. Like we have seen Sukuna with giant bone structures and his domain has bones. We have never seen those characters domains. So i wouldn't be surprised if chosos domain contains some sort of table with his brothers non-real summonings. Or todos with high school with takada chan
Wait,then does that means that Todo's and Takada's special move used against Mahito in Shibuya could be a manifestation of an incomplete version of Todo's Domain?
What is interesting about the whole 'karmic' idea is the twin duality of yuji and sukuna. The universe treats sukuna and yuji as one and gives all of sukunas deserved bad luck towards yuji
The way I like to look at cursed energy or curses is this: Negativity is all about conflict, or more specfically opposition. Anything, regardless of whether it is experienced by its wielder as good or bad, exists in opposition to something so long as it aims to change the world to suit its own nature, which we see as an inherent part of all cursed techniques. In fact, the supernatural being only manifested from curses can be seen as neccssary because to act in defiance of the laws of nature, the definition of the supernatural, is inherently oppositional or negative, requiring cursed energy to function. Toji and Maki's Heavenly Restrictions can bypass this because they directly tranform cursed energy into simply augmentations of physics. A heavenly restriction is not a curse, simply because instead of eroding the laws of the world in the way that curses do, they modify the laws of the world, permanently altering reality, but exacting an appropriate price. Although, a lot of the above I have derived as a result of my headcanon that the cosmology of jjk is such that the entire universe is essentially one giant binding vow, and that cursed energy is just the collective human denial of that vow. Also, it seems that the only real difference between sorcerers and non-sorcerers is that non-sorcerers expel the manifestation of their curses into the world to become cursed spirits, whereas sorcerers contain their curses within themselves, giving them power at the cost of a self-reinforcing feedback loop that make potentially negative traits that much worse.
For the dreams between reality and death, IT IS HAPPENING. There is no way Gojo would have known Haibara showed up to Nanamin in his last moments of death or the conversation between Nanamin and Meimei. For Nobara, she didnt have a conversation with her friend because she was the "ghost" and the friend cant see curse energies but she felt something had happened to Nobara. These things are happening and its not just made up by the person near death but between two people. As you said I do think its like a realm between life an death but it didnt occur to me it may be were curse energy originates from 🤔 If Sukuna was able to bring back Yuuji, to do so required curse energy from that realm between life and death as thats where Sukuna was situated in inside Yuuji. Thats my take on it anyways. Ofc I enjoy your videos quite a bit for exploring the themes I dont always see and reading between the lines. Its just... with Gege he might not be doing this intentionally lol hard to tell with him just saying I did this because I thought it was cool at the time. Or idk maybe he is a master chef 😅
This was great, loved the video. I love your interpretations because some of them map on really well on how I've thought on these subjects, but you've thought them out wayyy more and you make it not sound like schizobabble (which is how it sounds when I try to put it into words haha). Keep up the good work. Also, SPOILER WARNING: I still believe Kenny can return
I personally think that the cursed realm afterlife thing works like this: I die and I can see my fellow comrades who are also dead, but certain individuals like the king of curses and the one who shares his lineage and body can invade the realm even when they are still living. That explains why sukuna is able to do it and Yuji is also able to do it while neither of them being dead. I think the todo thing did take place in the cursed realm but it’s a different type of threshold since the plot itself didn’t take todo seriously
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I find it fascinating that curses were only a nuisance after shibuya. The disaster curses were great for the introduction into the story
It was stated that the disaster curses were extremely rare. Even the fact that they could talk was surprising.
@@ramadaboss5689 yes and I’m afraid that curses will need a couple hundred years to be this individual and powerful again
Well the only other really powerful other curse we got was the cockroach curse, and it got bodied by yuta in like a single chapter
@@VaclavRytina was thar curse special grade? Actually that's a dumb question nvm
@@0beronX45yes, it was.
Kinda wild to consider Maki and Toji as escapees from cursed energy, as that would imply that their insane strength is the natural state of humans.
No? The might not have ce but they have increased strength due to heavenly restriction
@@letsreadtextbook1687 Exactly my point. Heavenly Restrictions are still a mechanic of CE, so even though they don't have the energy they are still very much beholdened to the system, they are not outside of it.
@@letsreadtextbook1687 Every average human still emits a small amount of cursed energy. Only Maki and Toji are completely 100% CE free. Is it a coincidence that the only people born without CE have the literal same heavenly restriction, or is it safe to assume that not having a CE means oneself can reach the true physical capability of a human?
@@petre1758Thats the point of escaping it.
Not everyone has a heavenly restriction
I just wanna argue that Gege is a way better mangaka than people give them credit for
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smh dogshit writing I couldve seen everything coming before i even read the manga and if i didn't then it shouldn't have happen my headcannon is simply far superior smh smh gege could never
Absolutely agree with this. If people set aside their "agendas" and/or pay attention to the story, they will understand this as well
While the quality of the story might have it's up and downs, he is definitely a way better writer than what fans and haters alike give him credit for
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Ppl just sh*t on him bcuz they don't get what theu want from his story so they can't push their agendas. Like....Boo Hoo! If you want a sh*t story like that then gi watch mha or demon slayer💀
Radman dropping this a few days before we find out if Gojo is alive or not. Algorithm genius
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100% dead they mentioned they took his body so they will do something with it (removing the eyes or momentary revive) but Gojo as a character is over, but id like to be wrong
We are not so back after 261
Toji’s curse 15:17 was brought up again in his fight vs gojo “this uneasiness” and it fades into a picture of megumi. Megumi is a curse born from love. Megumi even said himself when fighting sukuna that he will save people unfairly embodying karma. Megumi will be the one to kill sukuna after swapping souls with Yuji completing yorozu’s quote: “unrivaled strength and the solitude that comes with it, the one who will teach you love is a curse born from it.”
That's a really neat analysis !
Could you also argue that Yuji, born from Jin's desire to have a child with Kaori despite him knowing it wasn't her, would fit the description of a curse born from love? I'm just curious
This theory’s so good I feel like I got spoiled
@@angelbotagi i used precognition on the manga
i was watching the higaruma video, and the moment you said “i have a video about black boxes coming out” i saw this video was posted 3 seconds ago. i appreciate you, radman.
The more i read, watch and inform myself the more the words of Sukuna in episode four:
"Neither you nor this kid understand what curses truly are"
Gege excels at creating multifaceted characters with deep backstories and motivations. The complexity of these characters makes them relatable and engaging, driving the narrative forward.
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@@niggardosenpaitoo bad your brain can’t handle intelligence lol.
@@yutikoosmoked bro
Tbh besides the main cast and villains (like geto) good bunch of the side characters don't feel that complex.
The story is good but what I like a lot about jjk is how the villains are extremely chaotic and unique like one piece villains.
Then he just blitz them out of nowhere
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Personally, I feel like we're never going to get every question answered about those dream sequences. I think we'll get a little elaboration, but I think that there's supposed to be some ambiguity. Like how Gojo's not sure if he's actually in the afterlife, or if he's just hallucinating. I think it would be a little gauche to confirm everybody gets to go to some kind of afterlife the way we think of it, and I think GeGe realizes that, but I also think GeGe felt it would be too cruel to say with certainty that it doesn't. And I think that uncertainty is an important part of Jujutsu Kaisen.
The way that I see it, Yuji's last gateway he needs to pass through on his way through his character arc is to grow beyond the cog mentality. It's the thing I think of first when looking at Nanami's line about how "a curse can help you live." His cog mentality saved him from suicide, gave him the ability to keep going, but it robbed him of the ability to value himself as a human being and an individual. I don't think he can survive unless he accepts that he deserves the chance to live and want to be happy, even if those might not ultimately be granted to him. Even if Yuji does, in fact, die in the end, I think his character won't be complete unless he can accept that he doesn't deserve to die. Death just happens, and nobody deserves it even if it's what's waiting for them at the end. It's morally neutral.
And I think there's just always been something really beautiful about how cursed energy as a power system is, at the bottom of it all, people taking their pain, misery, and every emotion they're taught is bad and that makes them worse for feeling it, and using it to achieve their ambitions and do good in the world. Taking anger and controlling it, accepting sorrow and fear and turning them into strength. I think the endgame is going to be turning everyone in Japan into a sorcerer, so they can protect themselves from the Merger and use their own darkness to carve a path for themselves through the world into the future.
Similar to real life every question about the dynamics of our world can only uncompensated by mere logical theories
the power system in jjk is intricate and well-thought-out. Cursed energy and the techniques derived from it are explained in a way that feels both unique and logical within the context of the story.
Unless it’s sukuna
im glad you brought up the nanami “a curse can save you” bit because we see maki reflect on the curse mai left saying destroy everything. this was saving her or at least supporting her in tearing down the sexist and ableist monarch of jujutsu and cementing her role as someone who breaks free from cursed energy. that curse mai gave literally propelled maki to new heights.
We create the curses and in turn are cursed... then follow the path to end the samsaric cycle.
The Four Noble Truths:
- Suffering exists
- The origin of suffering is in ourselves
- Suffering can be ended or confined
- The way out is the Eightfold Path of Buddha.
Is this what Gege is presenting to us? What happens when the Eightfold Path fails?
Suffering can be ended or confined
Hidden Inventory:
Geto: Kill all non-sorcerers = ended.
Tsumiki: teach all humans sorcerer = confined.
Shibuya Incident:
Kenjaku: Optimize cursed energy + merger = confined.
Tsumiki: Destroy cursed energy itself = ended.
Eightfold Path: boils down to truthfulness in conduct and mind, what better way to achieve full truth than a world without barriers between people or souls? The Merger.
@@mr-turtle-m8118 A world without barriers between people or souls? Evangelion??
I wonder if the Eightfold path of buddha has something to do with the Eight handled sword divergent sila divine general mahoraga, who has eight spheres on his wheel
Megumi could easily cosplay shinji
@@Jonas-ox7eo Also funny you mention that about Mahoraga because I've had a running theory that Megumi (and Yuji) will initiate an ethical Merger, which merges all of cursed energy and binds it to the shadows, or something.
Right now, "Megumi" is in control of Tengan, but since Sukuna is in Megumi's body, really the king is in charge.
But what if Yuji used his soul punch on Tengan's fetal status and reawakened them?
Back here after the chapter leaks today... this chapter kind of proves this video is correct. A curse that's been placed on Yuta is that he would never be the second Satoru Gojo.... and then he switches bodies and LITERALLY becomes the second coming of Gojo. MAN..... this video was too good.
Sukuna and Kenny's domains have barriers, they just have an open barrier which allows anything to freely pass through and doesn't seperate the domain from reality.
This helps sum up the sukuna / yuji duality - sukuna is just the collection of curses imposed on himself, yuji is the sum curses placed upon him by others
18:42 got me crying laughing dawg it's just so unexpected 😭
LMFAOOO dawg the comments are #cooking me
"F*ck the power of friendship" had me cackling and crying not even lying
This is a fascinating discussion I really appreciate content exploring the intentional presentation of a manga eluding to the themes and reveals down the line. I often theorize on these things for hours while I autopilot a work task.
The relationship between personal interpretation of a sentiment and what makes something a curse deserves much more discussion in the community. I can't unsee the connection to binding vows and curses left on people. Yuji and Sukuna both seem to be empowered by binding vows and curses they were afflicted by yet turned to strengths through personal interpretation over the course of the series. Sukuna is aware of it by now but Yuji hasn't clocked it. Good vid, Rad
I love these video essays
This is the first video I've ever watched of yours and it was very well put together. I'm ngl the "this nigga" completely caught me off guard 😂 for some reason I was NOT expecting that. Good laughs tho lol. Keep up the good stuff 👍
Gege's visual storytelling in Jujutsu Kaisen is a masterclass in how to use art to enhance narrative. It combines technical skill with a deep understanding of how visuals can convey complex emotions and dynamic action, making the series a standout
Its actually wild how prevelant the black box idea is in the story, even for Takaba, who started doing comedy so that he wouldn't be alone, is held back by the idea that he'll probably never be able to make everyone in the audience laugh, something he was told in his younger years, and those words appear in a black box later on in the chapter.
I cant wait for yuji to unlock his domain and say "Domain expansion: Infinite shonen" and then the rest of the series is a high school drama
The way you articulate your words and points is very enjoyable to hear. Thanks for the hard work.
Your attention to detail in your explanations and theory crafting are both so impressive as someone who writes. Stand proud brother, you can cook!
I love the interpretation of the dialogue in the black boxes being curses placed upon the characters, simply by being words spoken to them. Words can be extremely powerful, if they come from the right person, at the right time. All the examples you showed in the video, are pieces of dialogue the characters heard before, but they stayed in their mind, quite literally like a curse placed upon them.
I think the other examples make sense, however Toji with his Heavenly Restriction, the man who escaped curses, somehow is still able to make a curse to Gojo.
More like it's the mix of his words and how Gojo chose to interpret them that cursed the latter
How did he curse gojo 😂😂 wasn’t it the other way around
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Kaori could be a descendent of fugiwara, thus giving itadori something MORE
FINALLY, i was really wanting for this video for weeks thanks bro awesome video as always 🙏
woah, reminds me of the “engrams” of the scientologists. The memory of traumatic events become bound to phrases that dictate the path of our lives unless you can unravel them. Yuji grasping the curse left by Nanami & using it to drive himself forward is how they can be used to Save someone, Gojos curse of strength & loneliness just might save the world…Great analysis man
I've always been fascinated by Sukuna's tattoos, the first time he used ■ which we know now to be furnace in the manga, I had a thought... Does his tattoos store curses that he can release when some condition is met or is it a result of some binding vow?
Because, Sukuna's tattoos always kind of just appear on his skin like Kratos' curse or Ichigo's hollowfication, for Ichigo he turned it into "Salvation" when inherently being a hollow is to be "cursed"... same with Kratos' red tattoo, his ashy skin and the chains of the blades of chaos...
Sukuna may be the villain, but he has these concepts that usually the protagonist embodies, in a perverted way.
So when you mentioned how black boxes are curses, I thought "that would add to this fascination I've had over Sukuna's tattoos" and it seemingly being at least in my opinion, one of if not the reason why even though he lost 1,000 years ago, they simply couldn't completely kill him... and the reason why they call him the "king of curses".
It could just be that as long as he is "cursed", he will exist in the world of the living. The best they could do is seal all those curses in his fingers.
Rika is also called the "Queen of curses" but she's not particularly deserving of that title if you only look at her power-wise, but when you realize that she can as well store curses inside her, that Yuta can access, then it makes sense.
Yuta loved Rika so much that he turned her into a curse, and she in turn as a curse, loved Yuta so much that she was willing and able to take upon herself curses for Yuta's sake.
Sukuna though, takes curses and makes them his.
Basically, an exaggerated form of "you carry curses that if you overcome, they empower you" (as discussed in this video)... Sukuna just owns the curses and naturally just rules over them, the only one he hasn't been able to break is the thought of Yuji and it seems Gojo as well (as hinted at in the recent chapter)
I just wanted to throw this theory out as well. It's probably messy, but I think I got the point across decently.
Loved the video, keep it up bro!
let me point out that the tattoos are portrayed very deliberately.Sukuna used to have 2 rings each on his arm,near his delts.After reincarnating as four-arms, the rings were split as one on each arm.
Moreover, the only tattoo that is absent in his final form as opposed to meguna form and nephew emulator form are his forehead tattoos........those seem sus, don't you think.
@@nikhilv457 Hence why I said, they are "stored" somehow, as the more he uses them, the more they disappear slowly but surely.
But the thing is, he could potentially just replenish the lost curses, refilling the tattoos so we may not have noticed some of the lines disappear at certain points.
Yup forehead and nose tat disappeared IDK why, id guess its cause in his heian form hes got 2 bodies so he no longer needed tattoos on his nose and face to compensate for only having 1 body as meguna @nikhilv457
If Sukuna's tattoos r somehow "curses" which he stores, what do u think those curses r and what purpose do u think they serve?
I just want to add that I remember reading something that the tattoos on Sukuna are based on an Edo period punishment, where criminals would have tattoos placed onto them depending on their crime.
It could be on Sukuna's backstory, on how he was weak, being weak enough where he had symbols etched on his skin out of his will.
Or it could be about the crimes Sukuna committed against Jujutsu. Exploiting binding vows, treachery on Jujutsu by viewing it as a negative concept, and eating other people just for himself to become stronger just to name a few.i
I appreciate whenever you post about JJK because it revives my interest in the manga 👍
Favorite video of mine by you yet, probably one of my favorite JJK theory and analysis videos period.
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(Future me..this isn't pitty me story just a way curse can be used as a force for betterment)
I was abused in my formative yrs....thought i was weak,little to no worth, and felt like drugs could break me away.. i say this because theres been MANY situations where someone like me NEEDED to hear "i am you and look i am here and you can too"
And i use that truama to help those who NEED it.. words help seeing one who over came and didnt surrender..
Curses can be of use to help those whom you understand you fully.
Youve got it from here.
I like this look, it was actually pretty dynamic and original. W vid
This was a great video. Your analysis had a great premise that was predicated on the themes and narrative of JJK, and your theory is definitely backed up by that. I definitely subscribe to this idea as well, now. Well done.
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Great video man. I always love hearing your thoughts. Quite intuitive and thought provoking🙏🏾
I appreciate that!
I always consider the dream sequences as souls resonating with each other and transcending reality and curses to the realm of "dreams". Like what happen with Takaba and Kenjaku resonating with each other.
Man Radman cooks so hard on these
Thank you man 🙏🏽
phenomenal analysis
OMG. I'm only 7 minutes deep in the video and i feel like it was tailor made for me. I've been wondering about for some time now about how CE, Black Flash and binding vows (and some other things) seemed to emanate something...alive or conscious, and also about those dream-like scenarios (Jogo's, Nanami's, Gojo's...ect.) being just a visual choice or having something that stands in "reality", wich long ago had the popular "Yuji's Memory powers" theory as a possible explanation but that i think has probably nothing to do with Yuji specifically. Great Video btw.
JJK is one of the most complex shonen structurly
23:49 damn, i want this onee to be explored.
The animators who made the sukuna vs jogo fight couldnt animate the black box, so instead the blacked out the screen and made the entire screen a black box. Brilliant
I haven't finished the video yet, but I agree with you 1000%. You might mention it later in the video, but in my opinion is, how a sorcerer masters reverse cursed energy is related to their approach to the "negativity" around them. Gojo's attitude during his round 2 against Toji perfectly illustrates this point (and the whole fight for that matter) when he says he's not angry about Riko's death. It's at this point that he understands a new facet of cursed energy. It's about how you approach negativity: whether you're willing to embrace it, reject it (cursed spirit), or impose it, your mastery of cursed energy evolves. We don't talk about it often, but what did Tengen have to "impose" to limit the appearance of curse spririt only in Japan? Or rather, what did he impose on Japan and the world?
and you mention about love being the most twisted curse remind me that in fact, the more accurate opposite of love might not be anger, but indifference.
thanks for the video +1 subscriber !
Incredible stuff once again king
Radman, your JJK vids always make me pay 120% of my attention 🗿
It’s my fault, I read the spoiler warning and continued to watch. I had to stop myself from getting mad when you said the death of Choso.
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Great video per usual, keep shining akh
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18:57 As someone who has read Fairy Tail till the end, I can relate 100%
If those visualization moments are tied to that Kenjaku quote about the cursed realm, perhaps those moments are precisely said: "between dream and reality". Not quite real, not quite made-up. On a mechanical level, I wouldn't be surprised if it were some kind of soul resonance like what Takaba's CT did, and we know the jujutsu system can pull off some magical stuff like with Judgeman so it's hardly farfetched
Curse realm is kinda Adolla from Fire Force - a manifistation of all human thoughts. The more you reach that realm, the more knowledge and power you gain.
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Love manifest the most distorted curses or the most twisted.
Well most most negative emotion come from love. Let me give an example.
The person you love dislike/hate something or someone you will also hate/dislike it too.
The person you love/trust break it sadness, rage or hate will come to play
Judgeman probably takes information from the suspects memories and selects a crime at random
Having esoteric knowledge on our world really help understanding this story and other great mangas with hidden messages
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The application of cursed of cursed energy is the recognition of a “system”
That is why Toji broke fate with an absent dad and dead mother, he was a sociopath with a known condition that wasn’t explored and he didn’t recognize any system, but he still stood amongst cursed user
A cursed technique is like genetic constellation marker
man, this is a rad ass theory!!! reminds me of Hundred’s theory of black flashes being summoned from the cursed realm. if you get a chance you should check it out, adds to and compliments a lot of the themes mentioned in this video.
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After the main JJK manga ends it would be really cool if Gege did like side-stories about specific JJK characters. A mini manga series about Toji for example and his life in the Zenin clan. Or someone like Yuki who is so unexplored. I mean she was a former Star Plasma Vessel and did all this research abroad. This would erase one of my main criticisms about the JJK series. And it's that Gege doesn't spend enough time exploring some his characters. It probably won't happen and Gege will move on from JJK, but it would be really cool for a mangaka to do this. And would be something different.
mf go check out other series that mangakas have done for side characters
Best JJK and bleach TH-camr
when i was young i liked to talk bad about people, and my parents and teacher told me "be careful what you say, words are prayers and prayers are speeches for god" and your theory for what "curses" are made me remembered this lesson.
(english is not my first language so im translating this the best i can)
The JJK power system is based on Bhuddhist teachings. The better you understand those teachings the richer your understanding of JJK worl will be.
In any case, you missed the opportunity to refer to the conversation between Tsukumo and Geto. Sorcerers have the powers because they can naturally maintain their flow. This understanding is at the core of everything.
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i have a working theory that the governing force of cursed energy is information theory, or "surprisal" and the Shannon entropy. this is why applications of cursed energy can encode or reproduce any form of information, but if something is merely a vehicle for that information it's at most an interface for putting that energy to use
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24:49 i Believe what we saw in dream like sequences are innate domains. Like we have seen Sukuna with giant bone structures and his domain has bones.
We have never seen those characters domains. So i wouldn't be surprised if chosos domain contains some sort of table with his brothers non-real summonings. Or todos with high school with takada chan
Domain expansion : unlimited airport
Wait,then does that means that Todo's and Takada's special move used against Mahito in Shibuya could be a manifestation of an incomplete version of Todo's Domain?
Forgetting Kashimos dream scene is nasty work
one of the greats. rip akira as well
I got a feeling that Sukuna will be off screened by the merger when it spawns.
wow this is great analysis, 🤯 thank you sir!
07:30 yeeeeah... so... 'bout that... we need to go after a man that can create an illusion, that makes people see others with giant eyes...
What is interesting about the whole 'karmic' idea is the twin duality of yuji and sukuna. The universe treats sukuna and yuji as one and gives all of sukunas deserved bad luck towards yuji
The way I like to look at cursed energy or curses is this: Negativity is all about conflict, or more specfically opposition. Anything, regardless of whether it is experienced by its wielder as good or bad, exists in opposition to something so long as it aims to change the world to suit its own nature, which we see as an inherent part of all cursed techniques. In fact, the supernatural being only manifested from curses can be seen as neccssary because to act in defiance of the laws of nature, the definition of the supernatural, is inherently oppositional or negative, requiring cursed energy to function. Toji and Maki's Heavenly Restrictions can bypass this because they directly tranform cursed energy into simply augmentations of physics. A heavenly restriction is not a curse, simply because instead of eroding the laws of the world in the way that curses do, they modify the laws of the world, permanently altering reality, but exacting an appropriate price.
Although, a lot of the above I have derived as a result of my headcanon that the cosmology of jjk is such that the entire universe is essentially one giant binding vow, and that cursed energy is just the collective human denial of that vow.
Also, it seems that the only real difference between sorcerers and non-sorcerers is that non-sorcerers expel the manifestation of their curses into the world to become cursed spirits, whereas sorcerers contain their curses within themselves, giving them power at the cost of a self-reinforcing feedback loop that make potentially negative traits that much worse.
For the dreams between reality and death, IT IS HAPPENING. There is no way Gojo would have known Haibara showed up to Nanamin in his last moments of death or the conversation between Nanamin and Meimei. For Nobara, she didnt have a conversation with her friend because she was the "ghost" and the friend cant see curse energies but she felt something had happened to Nobara. These things are happening and its not just made up by the person near death but between two people. As you said I do think its like a realm between life an death but it didnt occur to me it may be were curse energy originates from 🤔 If Sukuna was able to bring back Yuuji, to do so required curse energy from that realm between life and death as thats where Sukuna was situated in inside Yuuji. Thats my take on it anyways.
Ofc I enjoy your videos quite a bit for exploring the themes I dont always see and reading between the lines. Its just... with Gege he might not be doing this intentionally lol hard to tell with him just saying I did this because I thought it was cool at the time. Or idk maybe he is a master chef 😅
This was great, loved the video. I love your interpretations because some of them map on really well on how I've thought on these subjects, but you've thought them out wayyy more and you make it not sound like schizobabble (which is how it sounds when I try to put it into words haha). Keep up the good work. Also, SPOILER WARNING:
I still believe Kenny can return
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Great vid
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Maybe Sukuna and Yuji can interact with the cursed realm in some way
those curse realm seems like underworld and angelbeats realm of the afterlife..
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I personally think that the cursed realm afterlife thing works like this: I die and I can see my fellow comrades who are also dead, but certain individuals like the king of curses and the one who shares his lineage and body can invade the realm even when they are still living. That explains why sukuna is able to do it and Yuji is also able to do it while neither of them being dead. I think the todo thing did take place in the cursed realm but it’s a different type of threshold since the plot itself didn’t take todo seriously
I also think Sukuna placed a cursed on himself, back he ate his twin, and Yuki is the maifestation of that curse.
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A piece of his brain is probably in his kogane too. It has stitches sorta like kaori's, but also very strange behavior.
great video
idk why but I feel like "curses" aren't just negative emotions, I just have a feeling it's something more.
👏🏾 beautiful video and analysis mate fasho this was the shxt