Yeah but going into more detail is that the state of your mind can significantly change the flow of ce in your body and 257 proves that by having yuji lock in so damn much that the concentration of ce in his hands are a guarantee that he's going to hit a black flash ( I might br exaggerating on the guarantee part but it definitely made a increase in the chances of hitting a black flash)
In the manga it says while closing up on yuji getting ready to use a black flash on Eso "the man chosen by the black sparks". So it clearly chooses yuji
@@testingdpatience9203Actually, the original line in japanese just says he is "the man loved/blessed by the sparks of black", not that is he chosen by them. Which is why they say "the sparks of black do not choose who the bless" when Mahito lands one
Yuji hit black flashes every single time he needed to. He never needed one and then couldnt hit it. He even faints black flashes against mahito for the win. And mahito thinks the first punch is going to be a black flash, but Yuji switches hands. Yujis always been able to do it "at will" in the sense he hits them when he needs to. His first one he hit like his second try, ever. And he was actively trying to hit them against hanami.
No, he infact DID fail in hitting one, against Choso. He wanted to hit one against him only to whiff it and hit him with a normal enhanced punch, which landed him with a fucked up shoulder.
@@brob657 Which wasn't because of YUJI failing, but CHOSO for throwing off YUJI'S concentration. You remember how Mahito took off armor on one side of his body, so that Yuji's punch would land a millisecond later than expected, thus ruining his concentration for Black Flash which needs to be perfectly landed in the millionth of a second? Choso did the exact same thing by forming armor under his clothing, leading Yuji to prematurely hit him a few inches earlier than he expected, thus ruining his ''flow state''. Its not due to YUJI being unable, but due to CHOSO actively working to undermine him.
Yuji also almost hit his first Black Flash against the Special Grade in the prison, when he goes to punch it before Sukuna takes over, we see the Black Flash energy go off partially before dissapaiting
Remember though, black flash is what puts the sorcerer in the flow state, I like the idea that being completely locked in causes it but unfortunately everyone would be able to use it if that’s the case
@@fadedcrayon4764 I’ve also played several sports but this isn’t a sport it’s jujutsu, while I see your point I don’t think that applies to black flashes, I believe the flow state in jujutsu is much different
Nanami saying that 4 consecutive black flashes is his *record* hints that he has dished them out before but just not as much consecutively. So Gojo only having hit 5 in his lifetime is absurdly low. You gotta remember. The world of jjk has existed long before the first chapter and these people have been going on missions for years to decades. That's more than enough of a chance to land a dozen or two
The thing with BF being used so rarely depend in many many factors. One of them was the durability of the opponents. Before the Manga started, the average power level of the cursed spirits were never that high,ranking at worst into multiple grade 1. The special class were extremely rare until the kenjaku gathered Hanami, jogo, Dagon and mahito togheter. The average blackflash, expecially by a top dog,meant a complete insta-kill like 90% of the times,so it was impossible to extend to record above some flew ones. Nanami himself managed to break the previous record with 4 consecutive only because, during the movie, he was fighting an almost endless wave of bug curses, which gave him the chance to break the record. That was the "lucky" chance nanami was talking about. And for gojo, he scored so flew black flashes mostly because, with limitless + six eyes, the range of opponents he could land one on was extremely limited considering even a single blue was enought to destroy the average foe.
In reality if one of the Gojo students wins, it means he actually won as when Gojo said "Nah I'd win." He's most likely referring to how his students will carry that legacy for him. Edit: sup.
In the newest chapter, it was mentioned that a Black Flash makes a "cursed energy circuit/relay" in the brain, which allows other parts of your brain to be involved in manipulating cursed energy. I think that's a big part in determining what a Black Flash is - it's when you put your *whole self* into achieving your goal. That's why the speech Todo gave Yuji was that to achieve Black Flash requires living with your entire body at once, rather than just moving energy around you. It's about oneness and wholeness, which makes sense considering the strong Buddhist themes in the series. I read an article about a guy who was brain-dead in 95% of his brain, but who walked and talked like a regular person, because his spinal cord had taken up all the activities normally reserved for his brain. And a friend of mine with Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka split personalities) mentioned that the reason the disorder shows up tends to be because of a lot of dissociation during the identity formation stage of childhood, leading to the brain being unable to form an identity normally and instead splintering. When I brought up the aforementioned spinal cord brain guy, she said that it often felt like a lot of her identities were different parts of her brain forming identities of their own. Basically, different parts of her nervous system took up the role of identity formation because the part that normally does it wasn't working, so she ended up with a bunch of different identities. And you know what that mirrors perfectly? Sukuna using different parts of his brain to take on the burden of cursed energy manipulation so he can cast a Domain Expansion despite being brain damaged. And he only did that after he achieved two Black Flashes - after he achieved oneness with his whole self. So basically, when you achieve oneness and wholeness with yourself while devoting yourself entirely to a specific cause, you can achieve a Black Flash. And since you're now "in the zone" and are acting with 100% of your brain directed towards a single goal, you can achieve a Black Flash easier because the previous Black Flash put you into that "oneness" mindset.
Sorry, reread that chapter. Gojo set up a unique REVERSE cursed energy relay by consciously splitting the workload between different regions of his brain. Sukuna wasn’t capable of doing this. Yuji isn’t doing this.
@@VyDovah You missed the point of the comment. Becoming one with himself and striking a black flash is what allows Gojo to set up the circuit in the first place. Striking a flash is what allows Sukuna to shift the load of his domain to other parts of his brain, and it’s pointed out that he would’ve regained RCT like Gojo did if not for Yuji’s Soul-Shaking Punches causing his soul to dissociate with Megumi’s body. Yuji himself quite literally awakens like Gojo did against Toji and gains access to a new technique, which are engraved into the brain.
I just wanna throw out there that the JJK 0 scene of Nanami hitting black flashes was in fact the moment that he set the consecutive black flash record of 4. He mentions later that it was during the night parade of 1000 demons that he landed those 4 black flashes.
And it all goes back to Megumi heart not really being in it understandable due to his circustamnce from growing up but being yujis live is literally on the line for plot and grandfathers last words yujis moral code is kinda set in shell
I bring this up every time Black Flash is the topic of discussion, because I think it's really cool. Basically, there's a book I read, pretty short, titled Zen in the Art of Archery. The topic is kyudo, the traditional Japanese form of archery, and how the author's kyudo instructor used it to teach the principles of Zen. Evidently this is common to lots of Japanese traditions, from martial arts to stuff like calligraphy and flower arrangement, i.e., using them as a "way in" to talk about Zen. And I think GeGe used that as inspiration for Black Flash. The majority of the book deals with the task of firing an arrow, which is extremely difficult in kyudo because once you draw the bow, you don't decide on your own when to let go. You have to maintain that position until the arrow naturally leaves your grip. It's compared to the way snow will collect on a leaf, then when enough of it gathers, it spontaneously, organically falls off without movement from the leaf. When the archer manages to do this, to patiently hold the drawn arrow until it lets itself fly, the author and his teacher describe this sort of "rush," this feeling of being simultaneously omnipotent and immersed in nature. Like they're a conduit for some force of nature that acts through them as instantaneously as a bolt of lightning. So that's basically Black Flash, right? By focusing intently, like insane levels of focus, and tightening up the timing on their cursed energy control as much as possible, a sorcerer can create the conditions for a Black Flash. However, they can only create the conditions for it. Nevertheless, if they land one, they instantly gain insight into the nature of their own cursed energy and cursed energy as a whole. We see Nanami describe it as this feeling of being "in the Zone," like the world's revolving around you, but I bet another way you could put it is that it's like the barrier between the individual sorcerer and cursed energy as a force of nature breaks down, and it's like cursed energy is acting through them instead of them using cursed energy. Black Flash isn't just a huge boost to damage output, and it isn't just a tune up to cursed energy efficiency, either. It's like a gateway into enlightenment, like becoming one with the universe of cursed energy. I think that's rad as hell.
As an archery practitioner, it's exactly right there are days where I focus on my technical skills and do well but not perfect and then there are moments where I can thread my arrow through the shaft of a carbon fiber arrow it's truly empty mind natural flow that does it
If Black Flashes are like "critical hits", then Yuji definitely have the highest rate since his CT is Left Right Goodnight. Add the fact that it sends you into a Zone state, you are basically adding a multiplier for the Critical Chances. Yuji's efficiency in handling his CE, and his determination to go all in against his enemies, then you'll have a great formula to get the Sparks of Black in your favor.
The way I see it, considering that using Black Flash allows you to understand Cursed Energy, the more you use it, the more you understand Black Flash itself and the easier it becomes to use it in a limited amount of time.
Makes sense actually, that’s probably why Yuji didn’t land a black flash on Choso since his mentality had shifted from what it became when he fought Mahito.
I think with Choso he just couldn't time the blow right because of the blood shield from Choso. The same way when Mahito removes his armor Yuji mistimes his punch and dosen't land a blackflash
Because megumi is such an overthinker I just think it’s impossible for him to be in the zone like that, the only time we even see him nearly that focused is when he fought the finger barer
I wonder if there are any hidden aspects of Black Flash, specifically if landing so many in a short span of time causes the Black Flash power-ups / 120% potential awakening to stack, even partially. I know the sample size isn't big enough for the people in the setting to make concrete conclusions, seeing that they only have Nanami on record landing a handful of them in immediate succession, and Gojo was never going to need more than a couple Black Flashes to annihilate anyone below Sukuna or Mahoraga's level, But I get the sneaking suspicion that if someone was landing dozens of Black Flashes in a single fight, they'd be gaining FAR more momentum than someone who landed just one.
It probably does, just with diminishing return. Since, cause you're technically still in the same state, it's probably just adding the base amount on top, without having reset the baseline yet. So doing 2 or 3 in a row would make it seem like a huge gain, after 4 or 5 it would become less and less for what your new total would be. And to add on that, though we have seen it a good amount, just getting a single black flash is actually really rare most of the time, let alone consecutive ones. The main reason it seems less so currently, is cause we are near constantly seeing some of the best in the verse getting pushed to their limit, over and over again. So they end up pulling them off with a good bit more frequency than what would be normal.
Black flash for me is like flow state and peak performance in Blue Lock. Not a coincidence that I found this video after learning about ego types and flow states from a blue lock video lolll
Something I’ve wondered, and haven’t seen talked about, in regard to, the Black Flash: could someone like Hakari land a black flash? And given his domain that gives him unlimited cursed energy for 4 mins, 11 seconds, would he be able to land as many Black Flashes as Yuji has, if he was able to better control cursed energy? Since we know he can’t control reverse cursed energy, it just kinda happens when he needs to be healed. And maybe he is good with cursed energy manipulation and I’ve just forgotten. But if he isn’t, then that’d make for an interesting what if video maybe? Good for thought. Love your videos!
I don’t think Hakari is that good with curse energy manipulation since his domain makes everything automatic. Yuta who had to rely on manual curse energy manipulation couldn’t even explain fully how his rct usage work.
@@lynnusuk2092 right, right, gotcha. I wasn’t 120% sure myself. Well, this could make for a fun what if style video. Cause imagine if he could control all that cursed energy haha
Man, I love JJK more and more with every day, it's not only clever anti-shounen with cool fights and rad characters, but it also resonate with my sociopathic enlightenment very good
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Jaded has already hit the black flashes, the biggest one with his video about: "JJK teaches you the opposite". Great job as usual, hope you will reach 100K
Its said in the manga that it's harder for gojo to hit a black flash because his six eyes gives him neer perfect cursed energy control unlike other sorcerers
@@agssilv5919 he was with choso the brothas dont have to fight when he hit his first bf i think that was alone todo just watch and its weird the moment choso gets involved heavly yuji hits a bpack flash
3:09 Yuji landed 3 Black flashes vs Mahito 1st when he "came back from the dead" after todo's speech 2nd after Todo clapped with mahito's hand. 3rd after he hit ISDK Mahito after Todo's bluff.
yuji actually hit 8 in a row lately + one almost bursting sukunas heart + one he hit with nobara also yujis total was above 5 already before that as he landed 4 against hanami and 2 against mahito so 6 at least so that'd be 8 +6 +1 +1 so 16 total
Its always been apparent that desperation and determination cause black flashes. It is never explicitly said but every time it happens the user is on the back ropes and needs a boost. The reason Yuji lands 8 in a row recently is because the gap between him and Sukuna is just so big
so more likely then not if you put full trust into black flash you will be able to land it, which is the reason why after yuji patted gojo on the back that helped him change his mindset he was able to hit black flash later on as we saw gojo looked tired and worried about the fight which he still wasnt immediately able to hit black flash comming freshly out of the gamblers mindset but there is one problem. hakari who always have cursed energy a very high output, gamblers mindest, only punches and kicks, has never hit a black flash, hakari should be the most proficient if thats the case. except for when he is in jackpot, thats when his cursed energy is too strong to be controlled for the "1 2 3" explanation gojo made
Sometimes in life there are perfect moments, and you don't get to decide when they happen, but they happen more often if you've got the mindset to seize the circumstances.
its like hitting a homerun in baseball but you only have .000000000001 seconds to react to the pitch. and the pitch can be many types: fastball, curveball, splitter, slider, etc. you can get really lucky if you guess, but you still have to be really good. but guys like gojo can see so well that they are fouling off every pitch, its just a matter of time until he makes solid contact and sends the ball 5000 feet
Yuji hit 3 Black Flashes vs Maitho in Shibuya. (1st was as soon as Todo "revived" him. 2nd was when Todo used Maithos hand to swap with Yuji. And the 3rd was used to finish the fight)
I also like how people are punished for not being selfish in the seires Such as the result of yuji becoming selfless against choso taking on 'a supportive role' and Megumi summmoning maharaga both of these selfless acts resulted in the biggest result of deaths in the Shibuya incident This indicates as a type punishment for not being selfish and striving in your own potential
i might be insane and remembering wrong but i think they explained you hit a black flash by hitting someone with a melee attack and a cursed energy attack right after the melee attack at a specific timing
I think that while black flash puts a sorcerer into the "Zone" state, that it takes kinda reaching that point on one's own before the flash to really use one at first. If not then we'd see characters landing them totally randomly as their first hit in a fight and then get that massive advantage. Almost to the point that while the series says it is a result of the black flash, that it feels more like the flash and the zone state are tandem abd happen simultaneously. Also added to this is the intuition some charactees get that someone is about to land one.
I feel like you need to land a black flash to become special grade if you never get one I don’t think you can pass the hurdle of grade 1 well other then a heavenly restriction
2 minutes in, I’m assuming it’s just when someone is 100 percent locked in and about to hit the zone, and the black flash is what triggers the proper lock in. And Nanami holds the record due to likely hitting them at his clock out time, 6, because he wanted to finish up immediately
I like to compare the black flashes to the thread from Kimetsu no Yaiba, whenever someone is about to hit a black flash, is like they are able to see through their opponent, like if they knew they already won the fight. When Todo landed his black flash, he was essentially able to predict the outcome of the swap with the rock and his kick, like he knew that kick will land no matter what. Every Black flash Yuji landed on to Mahito, again he already knew he had won. When Gojo landed his first black flash against Sukuna, he tricked Sukuna by delaying red’s detonation, just like when a demon hunter smells the thread to cut the demon’s head, before landing the blow, they already know that blow is 100% hitting no matter what
Yuji is basically an item locked max level phantom assassin with his consecutive critical hits. Sidenote: I wanna see a fanmade Yuji vs the grudge cursed spirits and Sadako 😂
I think that yuji could be using a binding vow of some sort to execute so many black flashes when he was fighting sukuna in chapter 256 and 257. This binding vow could give yuji the "flow" needed to execute black flashes but with a drawback. I don't know what could this drawback be.
Itadori really just said “Put this Black Flash on my life” a lot, i would say “Put this Black Flash on my friends and family” but if he did there’d still be a majority of the cast alive, but I guess the family part kind of counts because Sukuna sure ain’t getting put down.
Off topic , but do we think we are mis-reading Open furnace as a technique instead of simply Sukunas Supreme art attack? We don’t consider hollow purple or uzumaki a separate technique do we ? What do we think Yujis supreme art will be? I hope it involves blood manipulation
@@Goshmybaby000 open furnace could just be such a condensed amount of slashes that the kinetic energy becomes enough to ignite the oxygen and create flames so if this was the case and yuuji remains locked in he might be able to use it
Basically, black flashes are like hail marys. You gotta be on the backfoot probably about to die and just throw out your best anyway. My best real life example would be running or sports. Imagine running a marathon and you get 3/4 of the way through and your tired, out of breath and your legs are ready to give out, but despite that, you just push through and dash the rest of the way because you want to win and all of a sudden what just seemed like a herculean effort not seems simple because you pushed past your exhaustion and can atleast ignore it for the time being.
I think black flash works similar to heavenly restriction, where the user gives up what is precious to them (winning) in order to gain (bet) on their attacks
Many people are using some team sports as an example of a "real life" black flash, like a basketball final in the last minutes, but I think they are choosing the wrong type of sport, one could guess the best examples of real life black flashes are obviuosly individual sports since Gojo does say sorcery IS an individual sport, with racing being the fittest example in my opinion, because your life is actually constantly in the line, specially when a racer makes a suicide turn (which sounds contradictory to the video argument but hear me out), in this type of turn you need your opponent to actually avoid you and loose ground purposely because in the other way you would crash, instead of giving up your life to win (like Megumi) you are actually putting your life at the highest risk posible to make a sudden and crucial chance of odds (like Yuji against Mahito), all because of the determination to win (just like Gojo kinda says), while also making the dangerous gamble of whether the other racer gives in or not (like what Hakari says), the moment you actually get ahead of your opponent because of this, that is a black flash of sime kind
You actually forgot something, Yuji hit 3 blackflashed against mahito. Its when todo loses his arm and switches places with yuji. Which would've made yuji and gojo tied in total blackflashes prior to yujis blackflashes against sukuna.
So does this mean since Hakari is almost always swelling with infinite cursed energy he can't hit a black flash because I don't remember if he ever has. As well as that, Maki having no cursed energy can't land one however Nobara landed one with a cursed tool, meaning maki can potentially land the hardest black flash in history with a cursed infused tool. Maki, Toji, and Hakari can't land black flashes???
Does someone know the name of the background music name? Btw, just to say that the analisis of the vid was great. I quite found empty that this mecanic would be considered pure luck as a plot device. But when you put it as a state of mind it makes a whole lot of sense to be happening in such moments where it did.
So...Black Flash comes from the feeling that you HAVE TO land an all powerful blow in the moment. I like that. I like that a lot. I haven't watched all of JJK, but I like to believe it depends on the opponent's cursed energy because it causes a reaction from the two separate energies colliding and exploding with each other... ...Unless landing a black flash is possible against a target without cursed energy. We don't see people landing black flashes on random trees or rocks...right?
He was probably talking about the 10 shadows since Gojo did say ct is 80% of the sorcerer’s power. Which at that time is true considering how fast Mahoraga adapted to cleave and dismantle the only ct Gojo thought Yuji will have.
@@lynnusuk2092 then gojo was heavily understimating the shrine ct did he think sukuna was some bum like bro it might not be 10s or your 6 eyes+limitless but come on
this is great analysis and I appreciate your video. I have to ask though, what the hell is that game that keeps playing with the Minecraft looking block fighters? Lol
Nobara hit a black flash with her hammer and i was always hoping to see more expansion on that like imagine Yuta hitting a black flash with his katana or something i thought we were gonna see was Gojo or Sukuna landing a black flash with their CT like imagine a black flash dismantle or a blacl flash red but its alright that mightve been too broken
I say this because it's just perfect CE control so theoretically because CT uses CE it's possible but again I get it Gege prolly would've been too strong like straight up a black flash hollow Purple just wipes Japan off the map
“The light of hope shines black” is one of the hardest lines ever
Actually fire wth
@@SunLightOvedrive from Gege himself 🔥
Any line dealing with yuji and black flash is hard AF bro
can i get an n word pass after i do a black flash
Beneath the scattering sparks of black (demon god ) yuji itadori awakens
So black flash is about locking in so hard the jujustu sorcery itself acknowledges your determination.
Pretty much
Yeah but going into more detail is that the state of your mind can significantly change the flow of ce in your body and 257 proves that by having yuji lock in so damn much that the concentration of ce in his hands are a guarantee that he's going to hit a black flash ( I might br exaggerating on the guarantee part but it definitely made a increase in the chances of hitting a black flash)
@@Ring_student_yin_sanghe locked in so much the only thing he said the entire chapter was "black flash"
Essentially. It's like punching with pure raw emotion
...so flow state?
"The sparks of black does not choose who to bless"
Yuji has been 'blessing' sukuna with a lot ot black flashes lately tho
Black flash is that one friend who says he's not biased
and proceeds to say Ronaldo is a better dribbler than messi
In the manga it says while closing up on yuji getting ready to use a black flash on Eso "the man chosen by the black sparks". So it clearly chooses yuji
This line was written when mahito use it on yuji
@@testingdpatience9203Actually, the original line in japanese just says he is "the man loved/blessed by the sparks of black", not that is he chosen by them. Which is why they say "the sparks of black do not choose who the bless" when Mahito lands one
Not many people to bless 💀
With enough “I want to hit a black flash” you can achieve anything
and the bum who want to kill himself could never
@@WarpCorpFromProjectmoonMAHORAGA HELP ME!!!!?!
@@randyrandom3358 Mahoraga went on vacation after gojo, and now half of gojo is back he is taking a few extra days off
I WANNA BE A SUPER SAIYAN!! I WANNA!!! I WANNA!!! I WANNA!!! I WANNA!!! I WANNA!!!
@@wataterp7341 KOKSEEENNNM
they call my boy yuji 007
0 friends alive
0 reasons to live
7 BLACK FLASHES IN ONE CHAPTER🔥🔥
in one chapter but the most yuji did is 8
@@maxkalikster5399nah, it's not 8 lol. It's only 7
Wtf you mean by "0 friends alive"
@@chauhung2265 I meant in one chapter the most he did is 7 but if you include the previous chapter it's 8 in total
@@maxkalikster5399 no, including the previous chapter, it is only 7. One of them was Sukuna's black flash lol
Yuji hit black flashes every single time he needed to. He never needed one and then couldnt hit it. He even faints black flashes against mahito for the win. And mahito thinks the first punch is going to be a black flash, but Yuji switches hands.
Yujis always been able to do it "at will" in the sense he hits them when he needs to.
His first one he hit like his second try, ever. And he was actively trying to hit them against hanami.
No, he infact DID fail in hitting one, against Choso. He wanted to hit one against him only to whiff it and hit him with a normal enhanced punch, which landed him with a fucked up shoulder.
@@brob657 Which wasn't because of YUJI failing, but CHOSO for throwing off YUJI'S concentration. You remember how Mahito took off armor on one side of his body, so that Yuji's punch would land a millisecond later than expected, thus ruining his concentration for Black Flash which needs to be perfectly landed in the millionth of a second? Choso did the exact same thing by forming armor under his clothing, leading Yuji to prematurely hit him a few inches earlier than he expected, thus ruining his ''flow state''. Its not due to YUJI being unable, but due to CHOSO actively working to undermine him.
@@anusaukko6792 exactly this. Thank you.
Yuji also almost hit his first Black Flash against the Special Grade in the prison, when he goes to punch it before Sukuna takes over, we see the Black Flash energy go off partially before dissapaiting
Flow state. They're locked in. Game 7 of the NBA finals and it's a tie game with 4seconds left on the clock. Pure focus.
Remember though, black flash is what puts the sorcerer in the flow state, I like the idea that being completely locked in causes it but unfortunately everyone would be able to use it if that’s the case
It doesn't have to be NBA you can be in a flow state in any situation you're having fun or challenging yourself. For me music helps a lot
@@brendantailor3852 every one can, everyone just doesn't. You have to have an empty mind before you have flow. Source; I play multiple sports for fun.
@@rushpatriot2866 dude it's an analogy don't dig too deep
@@fadedcrayon4764 I’ve also played several sports but this isn’t a sport it’s jujutsu, while I see your point I don’t think that applies to black flashes, I believe the flow state in jujutsu is much different
Nanami saying that 4 consecutive black flashes is his *record* hints that he has dished them out before but just not as much consecutively. So Gojo only having hit 5 in his lifetime is absurdly low. You gotta remember. The world of jjk has existed long before the first chapter and these people have been going on missions for years to decades. That's more than enough of a chance to land a dozen or two
Honestly bro if I was gojo I'm trying to hit black flash Everytime I throw a punch doesn't matter if it's the weakest curse in existence
Not only that, Gojo wasn't that strong before the toji thing. He not having that many black flashes is a big deal
If he had never hit one before it would still be a record
He doesn't need to, limitless is an auto-win condition in most fights.
The thing with BF being used so rarely depend in many many factors.
One of them was the durability of the opponents. Before the Manga started, the average power level of the cursed spirits were never that high,ranking at worst into multiple grade 1. The special class were extremely rare until the kenjaku gathered Hanami, jogo, Dagon and mahito togheter.
The average blackflash, expecially by a top dog,meant a complete insta-kill like 90% of the times,so it was impossible to extend to record above some flew ones.
Nanami himself managed to break the previous record with 4 consecutive only because, during the movie, he was fighting an almost endless wave of bug curses, which gave him the chance to break the record. That was the "lucky" chance nanami was talking about.
And for gojo, he scored so flew black flashes mostly because, with limitless + six eyes, the range of opponents he could land one on was extremely limited considering even a single blue was enought to destroy the average foe.
Now the "nah, i'd win" makes sense, it was Gojo belief in himself
But instead of a ball being thrown at him for the last shot, it was a reality cutting slash 😔
In reality if one of the Gojo students wins, it means he actually won as when Gojo said "Nah I'd win." He's most likely referring to how his students will carry that legacy for him.
Edit: sup.
@@Velitowreally fits that Gojo wanted a new era of sorcerers who could be as strong or stronger than him
In the newest chapter, it was mentioned that a Black Flash makes a "cursed energy circuit/relay" in the brain, which allows other parts of your brain to be involved in manipulating cursed energy. I think that's a big part in determining what a Black Flash is - it's when you put your *whole self* into achieving your goal. That's why the speech Todo gave Yuji was that to achieve Black Flash requires living with your entire body at once, rather than just moving energy around you. It's about oneness and wholeness, which makes sense considering the strong Buddhist themes in the series.
I read an article about a guy who was brain-dead in 95% of his brain, but who walked and talked like a regular person, because his spinal cord had taken up all the activities normally reserved for his brain. And a friend of mine with Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka split personalities) mentioned that the reason the disorder shows up tends to be because of a lot of dissociation during the identity formation stage of childhood, leading to the brain being unable to form an identity normally and instead splintering. When I brought up the aforementioned spinal cord brain guy, she said that it often felt like a lot of her identities were different parts of her brain forming identities of their own. Basically, different parts of her nervous system took up the role of identity formation because the part that normally does it wasn't working, so she ended up with a bunch of different identities. And you know what that mirrors perfectly? Sukuna using different parts of his brain to take on the burden of cursed energy manipulation so he can cast a Domain Expansion despite being brain damaged. And he only did that after he achieved two Black Flashes - after he achieved oneness with his whole self.
So basically, when you achieve oneness and wholeness with yourself while devoting yourself entirely to a specific cause, you can achieve a Black Flash. And since you're now "in the zone" and are acting with 100% of your brain directed towards a single goal, you can achieve a Black Flash easier because the previous Black Flash put you into that "oneness" mindset.
This is super interesting especially the spinal cord part,
Buddhist and scientific themes seem to work quite well together.
Sorry, reread that chapter. Gojo set up a unique REVERSE cursed energy relay by consciously splitting the workload between different regions of his brain. Sukuna wasn’t capable of doing this. Yuji isn’t doing this.
@@VyDovah You missed the point of the comment. Becoming one with himself and striking a black flash is what allows Gojo to set up the circuit in the first place. Striking a flash is what allows Sukuna to shift the load of his domain to other parts of his brain, and it’s pointed out that he would’ve regained RCT like Gojo did if not for Yuji’s Soul-Shaking Punches causing his soul to dissociate with Megumi’s body. Yuji himself quite literally awakens like Gojo did against Toji and gains access to a new technique, which are engraved into the brain.
I looked up the braindead guy.
He wasn't braindead. He was literally missing 90% of his brain.
I ain't reading allat
Yuji may not be able to command the sparks of black, but as their prince they always answer his call
Damn that goes so HARD
I just wanna throw out there that the JJK 0 scene of Nanami hitting black flashes was in fact the moment that he set the consecutive black flash record of 4. He mentions later that it was during the night parade of 1000 demons that he landed those 4 black flashes.
Jaded gonna hit a black flash at 20k
I can feel it😤
@@JadedSatoru "Ah, i really am... I surely am! A youtuber!! *BLACK FLASH!"*
"Throughout heaven and earth
I alone am the black flash merchant" - yuji itadori
pulling their hand all the way back raise the chance to black flash to 100%
and time it exactly before the black flash theme goes: "IT'S NOT RIGHT OR WRONG"
And a 100% chance of tweaking tf out afterwards if you're a curse
Also I liked the yuji point about him never sacrificing cuz he always sees himself putting all he has into it
Megumi even says whatever I'll go all out or sum along those lines yuji always putting everything he's got
And it all goes back to Megumi heart not really being in it understandable due to his circustamnce from growing up but being yujis live is literally on the line for plot and grandfathers last words yujis moral code is kinda set in shell
Steel 😂
When u mix consistency and instinct, you get the flow state
I bring this up every time Black Flash is the topic of discussion, because I think it's really cool. Basically, there's a book I read, pretty short, titled Zen in the Art of Archery. The topic is kyudo, the traditional Japanese form of archery, and how the author's kyudo instructor used it to teach the principles of Zen. Evidently this is common to lots of Japanese traditions, from martial arts to stuff like calligraphy and flower arrangement, i.e., using them as a "way in" to talk about Zen. And I think GeGe used that as inspiration for Black Flash.
The majority of the book deals with the task of firing an arrow, which is extremely difficult in kyudo because once you draw the bow, you don't decide on your own when to let go. You have to maintain that position until the arrow naturally leaves your grip. It's compared to the way snow will collect on a leaf, then when enough of it gathers, it spontaneously, organically falls off without movement from the leaf. When the archer manages to do this, to patiently hold the drawn arrow until it lets itself fly, the author and his teacher describe this sort of "rush," this feeling of being simultaneously omnipotent and immersed in nature. Like they're a conduit for some force of nature that acts through them as instantaneously as a bolt of lightning.
So that's basically Black Flash, right? By focusing intently, like insane levels of focus, and tightening up the timing on their cursed energy control as much as possible, a sorcerer can create the conditions for a Black Flash. However, they can only create the conditions for it. Nevertheless, if they land one, they instantly gain insight into the nature of their own cursed energy and cursed energy as a whole. We see Nanami describe it as this feeling of being "in the Zone," like the world's revolving around you, but I bet another way you could put it is that it's like the barrier between the individual sorcerer and cursed energy as a force of nature breaks down, and it's like cursed energy is acting through them instead of them using cursed energy.
Black Flash isn't just a huge boost to damage output, and it isn't just a tune up to cursed energy efficiency, either. It's like a gateway into enlightenment, like becoming one with the universe of cursed energy.
I think that's rad as hell.
As an archery practitioner, it's exactly right there are days where I focus on my technical skills and do well but not perfect and then there are moments where I can thread my arrow through the shaft of a carbon fiber arrow it's truly empty mind natural flow that does it
If Black Flashes are like "critical hits", then Yuji definitely have the highest rate since his CT is Left Right Goodnight.
Add the fact that it sends you into a Zone state, you are basically adding a multiplier for the Critical Chances.
Yuji's efficiency in handling his CE, and his determination to go all in against his enemies, then you'll have a great formula to get the Sparks of Black in your favor.
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THE ETERNAL FLAME 👑
Man yall are both cool af I makemusic love your videos boys
Nice to see the Black Flash more relevant in the story again fr Yuji and Sukuna both about to pop off
To sum it up. In order to hit a black flash you gotta have that dog in ya
The jujutsu craft editing is incredible 🙏🙏🙏
Bro when ever this man jaded drops a video it just hits different for sum reason
The way I see it, considering that using Black Flash allows you to understand Cursed Energy, the more you use it, the more you understand Black Flash itself and the easier it becomes to use it in a limited amount of time.
Makes sense actually, that’s probably why Yuji didn’t land a black flash on Choso since his mentality had shifted from what it became when he fought Mahito.
That was the one time he was playing a team game
I think with Choso he just couldn't time the blow right because of the blood shield from Choso. The same way when Mahito removes his armor Yuji mistimes his punch and dosen't land a blackflash
Finnally the banger dropped i was waiting for it since your post
Sorry it took extra long 😭💀
Because megumi is such an overthinker I just think it’s impossible for him to be in the zone like that, the only time we even see him nearly that focused is when he fought the finger barer
I wonder if there are any hidden aspects of Black Flash, specifically if landing so many in a short span of time causes the Black Flash power-ups / 120% potential awakening to stack, even partially.
I know the sample size isn't big enough for the people in the setting to make concrete conclusions, seeing that they only have Nanami on record landing a handful of them in immediate succession, and Gojo was never going to need more than a couple Black Flashes to annihilate anyone below Sukuna or Mahoraga's level,
But I get the sneaking suspicion that if someone was landing dozens of Black Flashes in a single fight, they'd be gaining FAR more momentum than someone who landed just one.
It probably does, just with diminishing return. Since, cause you're technically still in the same state, it's probably just adding the base amount on top, without having reset the baseline yet. So doing 2 or 3 in a row would make it seem like a huge gain, after 4 or 5 it would become less and less for what your new total would be. And to add on that, though we have seen it a good amount, just getting a single black flash is actually really rare most of the time, let alone consecutive ones. The main reason it seems less so currently, is cause we are near constantly seeing some of the best in the verse getting pushed to their limit, over and over again. So they end up pulling them off with a good bit more frequency than what would be normal.
Given the last two chapters, this comment has aged quite well
Proof that making jujutsu not publicly available knowledge actually hurts sorcerers
Black flash for me is like flow state and peak performance in Blue Lock. Not a coincidence that I found this video after learning about ego types and flow states from a blue lock video lolll
Now THIS is the content I’ve been needing 🔥
Something I’ve wondered, and haven’t seen talked about, in regard to, the Black Flash: could someone like Hakari land a black flash? And given his domain that gives him unlimited cursed energy for 4 mins, 11 seconds, would he be able to land as many Black Flashes as Yuji has, if he was able to better control cursed energy? Since we know he can’t control reverse cursed energy, it just kinda happens when he needs to be healed. And maybe he is good with cursed energy manipulation and I’ve just forgotten. But if he isn’t, then that’d make for an interesting what if video maybe? Good for thought. Love your videos!
I don’t think Hakari is that good with curse energy manipulation since his domain makes everything automatic. Yuta who had to rely on manual curse energy manipulation couldn’t even explain fully how his rct usage work.
@@lynnusuk2092 right, right, gotcha. I wasn’t 120% sure myself. Well, this could make for a fun what if style video. Cause imagine if he could control all that cursed energy haha
@@Hayden_Lummushahaha 120% hahaha
FERVOR BRO... This mistranslation man, I can't 😭
Man, I love JJK more and more with every day, it's not only clever anti-shounen with cool fights and rad characters, but it also resonate with my sociopathic enlightenment very good
Bro called Megumi a bum in different flavours for 10 minutes😂 I’m here for it
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What did you guys think of each of these things?
- Extra gameplay in the background?
- Effects that float around the manga
- Tinting and slightly coloring each page
- Topic
Jujutsu Craft gameplay is at least better than cursed clash gameplay
@@JOSHINBETWEENER my exact thought process
dope video all around bro really good stuff
Do Arcane Odyssey pvp gameplay in the background 💀
@@JadedSatoruon a real note, i miss the old theme you used in your most popular videos.
Jaded has already hit the black flashes, the biggest one with his video about: "JJK teaches you the opposite".
Great job as usual, hope you will reach 100K
The goat man everything bout these videos hit like crack
Thanks bro 🥹
Its said in the manga that it's harder for gojo to hit a black flash because his six eyes gives him neer perfect cursed energy control unlike other sorcerers
It's one of those things where, once you've done it, you just can, and up until then, it's just a thing you chase
Around @16:15
tbh have you guys thought that yuji never hit a black flash alone? he only hits them when we with his BROTHA'S aka todo or choso
chapter 257 tho he just got that 1v1 that we all wanted to see
@@agssilv5919 he was with choso the brothas dont have to fight when he hit his first bf i think that was alone todo just watch and its weird the moment choso gets involved heavly yuji hits a bpack flash
3:09 Yuji landed 3 Black flashes vs Mahito
1st when he "came back from the dead" after todo's speech
2nd after Todo clapped with mahito's hand.
3rd after he hit ISDK Mahito after Todo's bluff.
From what I’ve understood it’s sorta like a sneeze. You just feel it coming in that moment
I love his editing and voice changer it’s so good 😮
Voice Changer???? It’s all natural but your pretty so I’ll let it slide
Gege saying megumi doesn’t fit the black flash is the funniest thing I’ve heard
He isn’t like that
Black flash in track terms is basically entering a mad minute. Everything slows down, you feel like you are gliding, and the whole world goes silent.
The sparks of black, happen when one is truly expressing ones soul in the most true form
imagine how OP Nanami's black flash was.
It's a critical hit of a critical hit.
Yuji was born with that conqueror haki mindset
Black flash is clearly biased
@@pbsuite always has been 🔫
For some reason I felt this concepts will help me in life as well 😅 thanks bro. Great video
Holy MOTHER of **YAP.** twelve times. You’ve shown the SAME panel TWELVE TIMES.
yuji actually hit 8 in a row lately + one almost bursting sukunas heart + one he hit with nobara
also yujis total was above 5 already before that
as he landed 4 against hanami and 2 against mahito
so 6 at least
so that'd be 8 +6 +1 +1 so 16 total
Here after yuji landed 8 consecutive black flashes againts sukuna.
As of NOW, ya boy Yuji is THE Black Flash user at this point. My man hits that shit.
Its always been apparent that desperation and determination cause black flashes. It is never explicitly said but every time it happens the user is on the back ropes and needs a boost. The reason Yuji lands 8 in a row recently is because the gap between him and Sukuna is just so big
so more likely then not if you put full trust into black flash you will be able to land it, which is the reason why after yuji patted gojo on the back that helped him change his mindset he was able to hit black flash later on as we saw gojo looked tired and worried about the fight which he still wasnt immediately able to hit black flash comming freshly out of the gamblers mindset but there is one problem. hakari who always have cursed energy a very high output, gamblers mindest, only punches and kicks, has never hit a black flash, hakari should be the most proficient if thats the case. except for when he is in jackpot, thats when his cursed energy is too strong to be controlled for the "1 2 3" explanation gojo made
Sometimes in life there are perfect moments, and you don't get to decide when they happen, but they happen more often if you've got the mindset to seize the circumstances.
its like hitting a homerun in baseball but you only have .000000000001 seconds to react to the pitch. and the pitch can be many types: fastball, curveball, splitter, slider, etc. you can get really lucky if you guess, but you still have to be really good. but guys like gojo can see so well that they are fouling off every pitch, its just a matter of time until he makes solid contact and sends the ball 5000 feet
Megumi always tries to play smarter, not harder, which is why he never takes into consideration his own abilities
Yuji hit 3 Black Flashes vs Maitho in Shibuya. (1st was as soon as Todo "revived" him. 2nd was when Todo used Maithos hand to swap with Yuji. And the 3rd was used to finish the fight)
I love the jujutsucraft gameplay, its a small detail but it's realy cool
THANK YOU, I took a gamble but I’m happy it paid off
I was wondering about what mod that was, thx!
I also like how people are punished for not being selfish in the seires
Such as the result of yuji becoming selfless against choso taking on 'a supportive role' and Megumi summmoning maharaga both of these selfless acts resulted in the biggest result of deaths in the Shibuya incident
This indicates as a type punishment for not being selfish and striving in your own potential
i might be insane and remembering wrong but i think they explained you hit a black flash by hitting someone with a melee attack and a cursed energy attack right after the melee attack at a specific timing
I think that while black flash puts a sorcerer into the "Zone" state, that it takes kinda reaching that point on one's own before the flash to really use one at first. If not then we'd see characters landing them totally randomly as their first hit in a fight and then get that massive advantage. Almost to the point that while the series says it is a result of the black flash, that it feels more like the flash and the zone state are tandem abd happen simultaneously. Also added to this is the intuition some charactees get that someone is about to land one.
I feel like you need to land a black flash to become special grade if you never get one I don’t think you can pass the hurdle of grade 1 well other then a heavenly restriction
2 minutes in, I’m assuming it’s just when someone is 100 percent locked in and about to hit the zone, and the black flash is what triggers the proper lock in.
And Nanami holds the record due to likely hitting them at his clock out time, 6, because he wanted to finish up immediately
So basically:
Desire
Fever
And a lot of not summoning mahoraga
continue using jujutsu craft as your b-roll, shits fye.
In short
In the world of the black flash, it's either you die or he dies, no in-between.
A perfect blend of hatred, spite and a drive to survive
I like to compare the black flashes to the thread from Kimetsu no Yaiba, whenever someone is about to hit a black flash, is like they are able to see through their opponent, like if they knew they already won the fight. When Todo landed his black flash, he was essentially able to predict the outcome of the swap with the rock and his kick, like he knew that kick will land no matter what. Every Black flash Yuji landed on to Mahito, again he already knew he had won. When Gojo landed his first black flash against Sukuna, he tricked Sukuna by delaying red’s detonation, just like when a demon hunter smells the thread to cut the demon’s head, before landing the blow, they already know that blow is 100% hitting no matter what
The effects of a black flash are like hitting a bunch of drugs in fallout. Yuji is probably not breaking a sweat rn
Yuji is basically an item locked max level phantom assassin with his consecutive critical hits. Sidenote: I wanna see a fanmade Yuji vs the grudge cursed spirits and Sadako 😂
I just love how he uses icons of the Minecraft mod for jjk for the video like in 1:55 that's the icon for melle attacks that are not curse technique's
Or using clips from the jjk mod +epic fight+parcool
I think that yuji could be using a binding vow of some sort to execute so many black flashes when he was fighting sukuna in chapter 256 and 257. This binding vow could give yuji the "flow" needed to execute black flashes but with a drawback. I don't know what could this drawback be.
Itadori really just said “Put this Black Flash on my life” a lot, i would say “Put this Black Flash on my friends and family” but if he did there’d still be a majority of the cast alive, but I guess the family part kind of counts because Sukuna sure ain’t getting put down.
Off topic , but do we think we are mis-reading Open furnace as a technique instead of simply Sukunas Supreme art attack? We don’t consider hollow purple or uzumaki a separate technique do we ? What do we think Yujis supreme art will be? I hope it involves blood manipulation
If Yuji ever gets a maximum technique related to Blood Manipulation It could very easily be Maximum: Wing King. (Both Choso and Eso used It).
@@Goshmybaby000 open furnace could just be such a condensed amount of slashes that the kinetic energy becomes enough to ignite the oxygen and create flames so if this was the case and yuuji remains locked in he might be able to use it
Basically, black flashes are like hail marys. You gotta be on the backfoot probably about to die and just throw out your best anyway.
My best real life example would be running or sports. Imagine running a marathon and you get 3/4 of the way through and your tired, out of breath and your legs are ready to give out, but despite that, you just push through and dash the rest of the way because you want to win and all of a sudden what just seemed like a herculean effort not seems simple because you pushed past your exhaustion and can atleast ignore it for the time being.
It’s a phenomenon so hype it warps reality around it
Yeah yeah, it is like you said. It's basically a critcal hit from games but in "real life"
I think black flash works similar to heavenly restriction, where the user gives up what is precious to them (winning) in order to gain (bet) on their attacks
Many people are using some team sports as an example of a "real life" black flash, like a basketball final in the last minutes, but I think they are choosing the wrong type of sport, one could guess the best examples of real life black flashes are obviuosly individual sports since Gojo does say sorcery IS an individual sport, with racing being the fittest example in my opinion, because your life is actually constantly in the line, specially when a racer makes a suicide turn (which sounds contradictory to the video argument but hear me out), in this type of turn you need your opponent to actually avoid you and loose ground purposely because in the other way you would crash, instead of giving up your life to win (like Megumi) you are actually putting your life at the highest risk posible to make a sudden and crucial chance of odds (like Yuji against Mahito), all because of the determination to win (just like Gojo kinda says), while also making the dangerous gamble of whether the other racer gives in or not (like what Hakari says), the moment you actually get ahead of your opponent because of this, that is a black flash of sime kind
You actually forgot something, Yuji hit 3 blackflashed against mahito. Its when todo loses his arm and switches places with yuji. Which would've made yuji and gojo tied in total blackflashes prior to yujis blackflashes against sukuna.
Yuji is at 17 black flashes now I believe
I believe it’s about the strength of your soul and your perception of it
Do u play orca’s jjk mod in mc too
Yeah, I’ve been playing since his first round of updates. w mod fr
So does this mean since Hakari is almost always swelling with infinite cursed energy he can't hit a black flash because I don't remember if he ever has. As well as that, Maki having no cursed energy can't land one however Nobara landed one with a cursed tool, meaning maki can potentially land the hardest black flash in history with a cursed infused tool. Maki, Toji, and Hakari can't land black flashes???
13:42 oh shit, I’m being bullied by this skitso, sacred treasure, I summon
Does someone know the name of the background music name?
Btw, just to say that the analisis of the vid was great. I quite found empty that this mecanic would be considered pure luck as a plot device. But when you put it as a state of mind it makes a whole lot of sense to be happening in such moments where it did.
Found it. Pressure from DylanDoesFish
So...Black Flash comes from the feeling that you HAVE TO land an all powerful blow in the moment.
I like that. I like that a lot.
I haven't watched all of JJK, but I like to believe it depends on the opponent's cursed energy because it causes a reaction from the two separate energies colliding and exploding with each other...
...Unless landing a black flash is possible against a target without cursed energy. We don't see people landing black flashes on random trees or rocks...right?
You just need that wind up panel with savage stare right before lol
Gojo lied to megumi it's no way his potential is higher than yujis but his skill most definitely was probably not in hand to hand combat but overall
He was probably talking about the 10 shadows since Gojo did say ct is 80% of the sorcerer’s power. Which at that time is true considering how fast Mahoraga adapted to cleave and dismantle the only ct Gojo thought Yuji will have.
@@lynnusuk2092 then gojo was heavily understimating the shrine ct did he think sukuna was some bum like bro it might not be 10s or your 6 eyes+limitless but come on
Black flashes are not random. They happen whenever the author needs them to.
"you need the skill to capitalize on your luck"
this is great analysis and I appreciate your video. I have to ask though, what the hell is that game that keeps playing with the Minecraft looking block fighters? Lol
Nobara hit a black flash with her hammer and i was always hoping to see more expansion on that like imagine Yuta hitting a black flash with his katana or something i thought we were gonna see was Gojo or Sukuna landing a black flash with their CT like imagine a black flash dismantle or a blacl flash red but its alright that mightve been too broken
I say this because it's just perfect CE control so theoretically because CT uses CE it's possible but again I get it Gege prolly would've been too strong like straight up a black flash hollow Purple just wipes Japan off the map
12:30 oh no, the background music...
Black flash is basically if you have enough determination to put 100% on critical chance
conclusión: black flash is like a crit hit in a video game
black flashes are just the golden wrench incident in tf2