Character-Conclusions & Developments during the Shinjuku Showdown (A List of all Threads):
A Series of Threads made to praise Gege Akutamis Writing during the Shinjuku Showdown:
(I will add all Parts in the Future)
Part 1: Satoru Gojo
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Character-Developments and Conclusions in the Shinjuku Showdown!
This is just a small series of appreciation-Threads for Gege, since the way he handles his Characters in the Shinjuku-Showdown is in my opinion phenomenal!
Part 1: Gojo Satoru
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#JJK260
This Chapter gave us one of the craziest Cliffhangers of the whole Series.
I thought about it a lot and also read a bunch of theories (and personal wishes haha) and i think there are 4 possibilities that have a chance to be true here:
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Gege created an amazing Power-System in JJK and Sukuna is the perfect Character for him to be creative with it.
This Thread is a summary of all the unique and advanced ways Sukuna used Cursed Energy and Cursed Techniques... and a praise for Gege
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The Bane of JuJutsu Kaisen's English Version:
VIZ & John Werry!
Everyone long enough in the JJK-Community already knows him and i am dissappointed that he is still allowed to translate the series.
A Collection of his worst works...
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Season 4 of JJK might become the craziest season ever lol:
Season 1 of JJK covered 64 Chapters.
Season 2 of JJK covered 73 Chapters.
If Season 3 covers 71 Chapters it would end with Kenjaku defeating Yuki and absorbing Tengen.
That would mean: -
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Now that i went through all the Chapters regarding each individual Curse placed upon a Character, i will summarize them all in this one Thread for easier access and visibility.
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The Rematch between Malevolent Shrine & Unlimited Void!
A quick Recab what happened during the first Clashes and why i am very sure that we will witness something completely new that makes this rematch very different compared to the previous rounds:
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What the hell is happening with Sukunas eye? Lol
It gets bigger throughout the fight (i show a few examples in the tweets below).
Is the size indicating how close he is to his limit or why does it seem in
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as if it would explode any second...
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JJK-2023-Review:
Rereading all the Chs of JJK released in 2023 makes you realize what a year it was for the series.
So many big events and reveals happened, a lot of deaths and a lot of spectacular panels from Gege.
Including the best of them all:
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Barrierless? BARRIERLESS??
John Werry, you need to be fired for constantly feeding your readers wrong informations about the Manga you translate!
How long will
@VIZMedia
watch this happen and do nothing?!
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Yuji Itadori: The perfect Hybrid between Heavenly Restriction & Sorcery
Kenjakus greatest achievement!
But also the one who will shatter Sukunas world view & ideals as a religious believer in the sole supremacy of Sorcery!
Art by the GOAT:
@Crain1Art
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Season 4 would start off with Sukuna taking over Megumi on episode ~2.
And from then on, with the pace of the previous seasons, we could reach up to Chapter ~280.
After the Military Invasion it goes without a break from Megukuna MC-episodes into the Shinjuku Showdown!
JJK-Theory: Ryomen Sukunas true CT!
My personal opinion about Sukunas true CT.
I can't really call it my theory as i read a lot of theories out there and this is just what i find the most plausible out of many of them.
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Black Panels with just text on them (Part 1)
They appear often and sometimes are just narration or inner thoughts.
But there are very distinct ones that i belive serve to show us a specific Curse that burdens someone.
What does this mean for Higuruma?
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@sas51334
Yeah and given that the "?!" Bubble points at him i guess this can be taken as confirmation that he is alive (i honestly never understood why so many believed him to be dead, but anyway...)
1. Gojo is really back!
I personally don't want this to be the case. As much as Gojos death hurt back then, his conclusion was close to perfection and Gege would have to really go crazy to make this a satisfying addition to his Character.
However he is a plot-driven author
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2. Its Yuta and he inherited the Six Eyes! (read this from
@andthatsaprayer
)
There can only ever be one person with the Six Eyes and even though Kenjaku killed a Baby with them once, at the time of the Merger a Six Eyes User still appeared. This means:
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The Six Eyes can awaken in a random person with the right heritage.
Since Yuta is a distant relative to Gojo and a descendant of Sugawara no Michizane he could theoretically awaken the Six Eyes anytime.
This would mean Sukuna sees Gojo in the dust, but its actually Yuta!
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Maybe thats why Sukuna hallucinates and thinks he sees the Ghost of Gojo.
Gojos philosophy wins through Yuji!
And i personally hope that in the next Chapters Megumi finally plays his part as well, cementing this philosophical win!
11/11
@akrmidori
Honestly i don't think so. Most of these kind of extra-pages are some kind of Curses and some volumes later the same place will be shown again without the Curses and one of the Sorcerers hanging around there, implying they exorcised it.
What made CH 221 so special is that we suffered so much by then, the CG went prety fine, but then we lost Megumi, Tsumiki and it all went to shit.
And then Gojo appears, sending Uraume flying, making Kenjaku shit himself and disrespecting Sukuna.
It was so needed!
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However over time the mistakes began to multiply and as of now i am unable to take the official english release of the chapters seriously.
Every week i need to search for native speakers to see them correcting his translations.
(VIZ is always on the left)
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Sukuna burned everything down, did as he pleased, lived as the Calamity.
And Gojo wanted to raise others to the same heights he reached.
If Sukuna loses to Yuji & the Others, then this means that Gojos Dream & Philosophy triumphs over Sukuna!
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How he could return?
- Binding Vow in exchange for the (or one of the) Six Eyes
- Shokos RCT is way better than we thought
- Vengeful Spirit?!
There are possibilities, but i personally wouldn't prefer it.
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@_Miles_C
Hmm, that would be another 13-14 chapters, so almost ~85 chapters for season 3.
Seems crazy, although CG is a lot of fights and especially something like Charles vs Hakari or Kashimo vs Panda does not need to be extended at all lol
What does the full incantation of Hollow Technique: Purple even mean? Here I go into its Kanji to gleam insight to the ritual, what Gojo clan & Limitless users were cooking when they came up with this killer shit
1. 九綱 (lit. Nine Ropes): The literal TL is misleading. Rather,
He is the course of serious misinformation throughout the community and this is just something that shouldn't happen.
I dream of the day were JJK gets the translator its deserved.
Right now, the official release on Sundays is a joke...
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3. Binding Vow-Backfire + the Handsign
Sukuna used a ton of Binding Vows, especially when constructing his new Domain. This also came with a "new" handsign -> The one Gojo used for his Domain.
Now i think this backfires now, as Sukuna is too desperate.
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The infamous one... both are actually VIZ, although they corrected their initial "No" because of the backlash of fans.
Good move from them, but maybe they should've changed a bit more...
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Yujis hand is buried deep in his chest, his heart only works if he actively keeps it going.
He might hallucinate because he is on the verge of losing.
He defeated Gojo and solidified his place as the Strongest.
But right now he might lose against the dream of Gojo
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Its a very vague theory, i know, but i think it is not too absurd to think that Sukuna hallucinates and see Gojo because he used his Handsign.
This goes also hand in hand with the last theory:
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4. Opening the Domain fails - Sukuna is not as fine as he thinks!
The Narrator i makes it seem like Sukuna is fine and can open his DE as often as he wish, as long as the cooldown wears of.
But what if this isn't entirely the case?
Sukuna might've misjudged this?!
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John Werry began translating JJK in Chapter 133.
The previous translator Stefan Koza was proven guilty of some serious crimes and therefor Werry replaced him.
Some of his earlier works are really good, especially his first chapters as you can see here
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1. Hand-Signs & Chants
Many CT, same as Domains, require specific Hand-Signs and you can boost your Technique even more if you use Chants as well.
Sukunas abnormal body takes this to the next level, because he has 4 arms and 2 mouths...
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Character-Developments and Conclusions in the Shinjuku Showdown!
This is just a small series of appreciation-Threads for Gege, since the way he handles his Characters in the Shinjuku-Showdown is in my opinion phenomenal!
Part 1: Gojo Satoru
#JJK
#JuJutsuKaisen
#JJK262
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Summary: The ominous black panels with only text on them represent a Curse that burdens a character (in my opinion)
Sometimes its a motivation, sometimes quite literally a Curse. Sometimes they are placed upon them through others, sometimes they do it themselves...
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JJK-Theory: The Cursed Realm
Only ever seen once throughout the entire series, but it remains one of the most intriguing mysteries of JJK.
I will try to speculate about it over the next few days!
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@ShadzMangaOnly
One of the creepiest characters in the series but her CT is really broken.
With the right material and enough time she can change the tide of the world lol.
Imagine her with a blood-sample of Gojo
3. Skillful Use of the 10 Shadows Technique
After taking over Megumis body Sukuna showed us what is possible with this Technique.
The very first thing was show us a gigantic Nue, probably due to mixing it with other Shikigami and boost it with huge amounts of CE.
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2. Cursed Object
While Sukuna is a Sorcerer (and not (!) a Cursed Spirit despite his title as King of Curses) he also managed to become a Cursed Object, which allows him to transfer his soul into other bodies and technically be "immortal"
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JJK-Theory:
Sukuna with the Hisoka-Route
or
The Death of Ui Ui & Shoko
Why the valuable Support-Characters will be the next to die at the hand of Sukuna
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In his fight with Gojo he shows us Agito, although mixing Shikigami or using Totality is something Megumi already did.
More advanced was the fact that Sukuna can use Shikigamis unique abilities himself, like shooting the water from Max Elephant like Piercing Blood
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Final Thoughts:
Sukuna is the Pinnacle of using CE and through him (& of course through other Characters as well) Gege can show us so many creative ways of using this incredible Power-System.
The Power-System in JJK is one of the best ever created!
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Megumi - the Antagonist?
The Importance of Ideals.
Similarities between Sukuna & Megumi in this regard
& why a selfish Megumi might be a really bad thing.
Chapter 248 gave me some ideas about these topics and i will cover them in this Thread.
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Meruem & Sukuna!
How Gege took inspiration from one of the best Shonen-Villains of all time and made his own version of it.
There are a lot of similarities, but they are still very different and their own complex characters.
A Thread:
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But anyway, here is the rather long compilation.
I definitely didn't found everything, some are bigger issues some smaller.
Sometimes its just a wrong translations, sometimes too complicated and sometimes it makes the reading flow very hard
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His most prominent use of the 10 Shadows is to take the burden of Mahoragas Adaption on himself.
This way he can prevent the risk of Mahoragas destruction and help it adapt to anything Sukuna takes on.
A smart combination of the Shikigamis ability and his own durability
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Only partially manifesting a Shikigami to avoid the destruction of them was also something that Megumi did as well, although i still list it as a unique way of using Shikigamis.
In the end Megumi is a prodigy as well.
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*This is not an Agenda-Thread and i know other characters use the power-system also incredible well & creative.
But Sukuna showed us the most and therefor he is the best example...
Additionally there is "SpiderWeb", his Net-Cleave and to use a lot of small slashes to create a chainsaw-like effect to grab swords like Yutas Katana...
Though slicing opponents he touches directly into cubes is his favorite way of killing i suppose.
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4. Creative Use of Cleave & Dismantle
On the surface Cleave & Dismantle are very simple Techniques: Slashes.
But Sukuna uses them in creative & powerful ways.
The most devastating is of course his World Slash, which he learned thanks to Mahoragas blue print...
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@goatgumi
since it can devour and store everything and even himself maybe some starved kid that was left by their parent? or a kid that was force-fed to death, either way it gets gruesome to speculate
5. Masterful Domain Expansion
Sukuna is, as we all know by now, one of the only two Sorcerers who uses a Domain Expansion with an open barrier.
While Domain Expansion in on itself is a great idea for a battle manga, Sukunas skill with it elevates it even further
10/16
#JJK253
What the Hell, Gege?!
Four awesome special drawings in one week?!
The break is deserved and i can completely understand why some pages last chapter seemed unfinished.
All Four look absolutely sick!
His Efficiency with CE is also at a level second only to a Six Eyes User like Gojo....
If that wasn't enough he has at least double the amount of Cursed Energy than Yuta whose CE-reserves were described as "bottomless"...
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Gojo tried to counter Sukunas open barrier and widely expanded sure-hit with two major actions:
Reversing the external and internal conditions of his barrier, making the outside stronger against attacks and also shrinking his Domain-size massively.
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He can use Binding Vows on the fly to turn his sure-hit off in certain areas to strengthen the power of it in other areas.
He can narrow the radius of the sure-hit down or expand it.
In Domain-Combat, he is invincible!
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7. Reverse Cursed Technique
Sukuna is not only the second best & fastest RCT-User in JJK (together with Gojo) right behind Jackpot-Hakari, he is also able to damage his own Brain and heal that specific part so that he can regain his burnt out CT after a DE faster
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6. Cursed Energy Manipulation
Sukuna is able to use Domain Amplification to cancel out sophisticated CT like Gojos Infinity, but he is also skillful enough to switch nearly instantly between DA and his own CT. This way abilites like Mahoragas Adaption are not disrupted.
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This way he made it possible for his Domain-Barrier to withstand Sukunas sure-hit for ~3 minutes.
Sukuna however never tried to attack the now weaker inside of the barrier which is very interesting regarding this clash.
He wanted Mahoraga to adapt to Unlimited Void.
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But that is not all.
When activating a big Technique (DE or a strong Lapse-attack), it is possible to see the "spark" of CE that is about to activate.
Sukuna can perceive this and he is able to deduce what attack it might be based on the scale of that spark.
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"Wild Card" for Sukuna: Is he able to unleash the divine Flame against Yuta?
It wasn't an option against Gojo but that could turn the clash in his favor again...
A lot of possibilities and i am baffled that Gege managed to make me excited for another round of Domain-Clashes!
9/9
However Sukuna HAS to attack from the inside now.
His Domain only lasts 99 seconds, he can't wait 180 seconds.
Only a few seconds of Unlimited Void are enough to turn his brain into a potato.
He has no reason to allow this and Yuta should know this as well.
5/9
Using Gojos method should be possible for Yuta.
He already showed with his own Domain that he is a prodigy regarding barrier-techniques so he should be able to learn it.
Especially now with Gojos memories, thats why he should also be able to use the shrinking.
4/9
I met this awesome, hot woman the other day. She talks a lot about "producing the perfect baby" and you need to get used to her stitches, but she does the craziest shit in bed so i think i can live with all that for now.
Thats why i am sure that we will see something new.
Yuji & Todo are obviously a wild card.
I am not sure if they are inside UVs barrier, but Todo might be able to somehow swap Yuji inside.
Unlimited Voids sure-hit is crazy potent, so a small opening is enough for Yuta.
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@Creatormigraine
I might sound like a Gojo-fanboy, but it would be a cool twist if after the infamous "Gojo won" panel, the next chapter starts with Sukuna incarnating his OG body and therefor healing his body and thus regaining the upper hand in the battle and finally killing Gojo.
Character-Development during the Shinjuku-Showdown - Part 8: Ryomen Sukuna!
Geges Masterpiece in the making!
The Showdown is nearing its end and Gege spent a lot of time and work to show us who his great antagonist truly is!
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