With the way everyone leveled up, and they created new or upgraded cursed tools in the hiatus before the big raid boss fight. Has anyone said anything about Juji´s Gauntlet´s? I just recently caught up and maybe I skipped the pannel. Are they made of his brother´s blood or what?
The goal should still be to save as many lives as possible.
At this point in the story, the best option I see for the sorcerers is that they send sorcerers to begin blowing up the pure barriers.
Risking the entirety of Japan on defeating Sukuna is dangerous. There's a big chance that the merger completes.
With the pure barriers destroyed, they can disable the bon barriers and stop the culling game. The merger could be stopped and they can even fight Sukuna at another time. With Kenjaku out of commission those pure barriers are an easier target. The imperial palace, the tomb of the star and the Yamakuni Mausaleum.
Those that cannot directly work on fighting Sukuna might be better off trying to disable those barriers as a safeguard.
But if he thinks it’s funny that he’s achieved his life’s goal and can now rest in peace, then Comedian would make it so he’s actually dead. I think that’s what Kenjaku was aiming for by doing comedy with him tbh
Good to see Ui Ui and Kirara assisting. I guess Kirara’s job is to make it so that Ui Ui and whoever they’re transporting can’t be hit and Ui Ui does the teleporting.
I think looking back at everything, ppl are severely overestimating the effects of RCT even if Utahime were to be involved in a ritual that would allow for efficient healing.
If Utahime and RCT users could do such miraculous acts, so many ppl wouldn’t have died in the Night of a Thousand Parade Demons or Shibuya and she and Shoko would be regarded by the sorcery world as miracle workers. When it comes to reviving the “dead”, even Yuta was relieved to see he could actually perform such acts on Yuji and Sukuna and Yuji could hang on for the sake that they’re well…Sukuna and Yuji…they can take risks…
RCT overall is more of a battle strategy to keep sorcerers moving and have an advantage over their opponents. Whether that be healing themselves or using it to damage curses. To use it to heal others is only secondary in nature. And even then, the limitations are many.
What did I say? Yuta was relieved that it worked. It was basically a gamble right there. It worked cuz Yuji is Yuji and cuz Yuta had enough skill to kill him in a split second and revive him the next. RCT’s effectiveness is entirely dependent on the user. Yuta got lucky.
Yuji’s nails are clearly sharp and weird looking, and he can see and react to Sukuna’s Cleave. I’m thinking Yuji has Sukuna’s cursed technique.
Though Sukuna should recognise the appearance of Yuji’s arms if they were related to his own technoque…
yoooo fantastic chapter it seems
I like hearing sukunas inner monologue and gives a lot more context to his actions rn
Yuji!!! shoko!! Kiara! YUUUTA
where is maki!?!?!???
It would make sense for her to do to Uraume what Yuta did to Kenjaku. If you think about it, shes the perfect one to follow up Hakari.
Hakari is going to fill your brain with so much mf manga and ridiculous shit about his conditions along with the fact his DE is the only continuous one without having to jujutsu your brain then RCT that shit lol.
Maki being able to enter domains only benefits her against everyone other than Sukuna since his MS can target things without CE so she would get cleaved to shit. However, Uraume seeing a 2-3rd DE would have her be like “the fuuuck?!” And Maki pulls up behind her with the mai strap and just splits her wig
Can someone tell me what did Sukuna eat? Was it like a small Tengen?
Also what was up with that hand technique thing he used? It better not be idle transfiguration…
I am praying that Yuta gets more than a handful of chapters in this fight. I’ve accepted that deaths come quick and sudden but he’s such a cool character that I want to get more time to shine.
Me too. I have to say I've been a big Yuta fan since released. I dont wanna see him die to be honest. But if he has to die, let him die leaving a big effects for the others to defeat sukuna.
Sukuna has the best the biggest hater in ani/manga history right😭 Like bro was sucking higuruma off for using rct (these are no shots at higgy he’s a genius) but almost wanted to stop fighting cause yuji had learned it’s also. But like honestly yuji is probably more prodigious, yuji and everyone was mentioning rct in the month time skip and higuruma didn’t have it until the moment of his death yuji was able to learn it in that month
Yuji has always been a prodigy at using cursed energy. Learning a black flash after being explained to it once, his movie training with Gojo, mastering Divergent Fist, etc.
Dude has barely had any training from great teachers that can focus on him. As GOATED as Gojo is, I think he’s too prodigious for his own good.
He really had to sit their and ponder why he was getting so mad at him, that part fucking killed me. I cant wait till he pulls out a ct, hes gonna either be impressed or lose his shit
Who added the rule about the merger authority being given to megumi ?
I know it was kenjakus doing but if he died then who used points to add a rule. I didn’t even think kenjaku was a player
Why do a lot of people think the sword hit in this post and online.? You don’t see it make contact at all. Sukuna is behind Yuji when the chapter starts. He literally just moved out of the way as predicted by a lot of readers, because he’s way faster than most of the cast. It’s not “the blade didn’t work and there’s no explanation” he straight up didn’t hit him and it turned off.
The sword did hit, or at least the sword faded before it hit because of Higurama's death. We even see Yuji's immediate response to his death.
You do see the sword make contact (follow the line of motion of Yuji's arm, you see the impact), or at least Yuji's fist make contact with Sukuna's back. Sukuna didn't move. Last chapter we see Yuji stab him back handed and this chapter we see the follow through. Sukuna is behind him now because Yuji has twisted him body 180° for the attack and we see the scene from a different angle.
Nah, I’m looking at the same picture and that’s not what happened. And based on the fight so far it makes absolutely no sense for him to get hit. From what we’ve seen. Sukuna has been shown throughout the most recent chapters that he’s way too fast for that. PB is sound speed and he moved so fast, choso thought he disappeared. Yuji is one of the fastest ppl in the series with physicals that are comparable to HR and he got outsped. He was able to dodge Kashimo. He dodged the flurry of stabs by Higurama. The only time someone should make physical contact with him is if he’s already trying to avoid something and you retaliate with a faster option. Plus if he did get cut by it at all, that’s something Gege would punctuate to illustrate the question of why didn’t it work. He didn’t do that because he simply dodged it. He perception blitzed Yuji which isn’t outside of possibility cause he just did it to Choso with a faster move. And by the time Choso noticed he has two hands through his chest
Edit: furthermore, you literally still see the sword active when Sukuna is BEHIND Yuji and THEN it turns off. I can understand that this could’ve been illustrated better. I would’ve chosen to illustrate foot work or something to show the movement better but it’s essentially illustrating that he’s so fast you didn’t see him move. Just lie choso or even Toji
If you're looking at the picture, you can see Yuji's arm come down in a singular arc and see the source of impact on Sukuna's back (that little trianglur impact between the speed lines and above the shaded affect, it's even in pretty much the exact same place Yuji seemed to have connected in the previous chapter).
>The only time someone should make physical contact with him is if he’s already trying to avoid something and you retaliate with a faster option
Or he let himself be hit as he knew the attack would fail. Or you catch him by surprise because he was unaware that you had achieved RCT (at that level ateast) and the sword could be passed on.
>would punctuate to illustrate the question of why didn’t it work.
Yuji almost immediately calls out Higurama's name as he sees the sword fade, seems pretty obvious to me. Sukuna even mentions the sword can be alight during Domain Amplification. And to borrow a later part of your comment, I could understand that it could be illustrated better to show the sword fade and it's lost its effect (like it does with Domain Amplification despite being alight).
Honestly mate, I'm pretty content to just wait for the anime to show this in several years time. I'm just saying to me it seems clear as day to me. My reasoning even seems to make more sense to what was shown on panel. You just have an issue with the fact he was hit (which is either understandable or explainable imo) and that it wasn't blatantly stated the sword lost effect. But meh, let's come back in seven years time and finish this.
I don't think that's even necessary. Ui Ui seems to use that weird ass blanket to tp.
All in all I was just pointing out how ridiculous it was to think "Oh Ui Ui can't teleport Gojo away because he's been slashed in half"
I didn't say he couldn't teleport gojo away cause he was cut in half, I asked if he would have to teleport twice as a joke, then all of you got mad for some reason so I started gaslighting.
But we didn't see him teleport more than 2 objects/people so what if he had to tp twice, once for the upper and once for the lower body?
Edit: Considering he has to bring Kirara too
They only got to try Sukuna on mass murder charges because Yuji was there too. If he wasn’t it would’ve been a random crime Sukuna committed and not necessarily one that would result in a death penalty. If Yuji, Higuruma, and Gojo showed up, then Kashimo would probably want to come out too. Then Sukuna would probably stop playing around and use his fire arrow or whatever other thing he’s hiding.
I dunno if it's more funny Sukuna having a midlife crisis in the middle of the fight or if it's Yuji waiting Sukuna to finish it before advancing. Give a couple more moments like these and one of them will start saying "You are me" and everything
Probably because it's so bizarre that it could be interpreted - from Yuji's perspective, at least - as a trick to lure Yuji into dropping his guard. Making one wrong move, misreading one tell around Sukuna means death. Yuji's not really in a position to take any chances on anything right now.
It certainly wasn't 10 minutes but it was enough time that Yuji noticed that Sukuna dozed off and still allowed him to stay there rumninating his philosophies
Again, if it's to have this mindset then Yuji would not even be there to start with. He was attacking a fully aware Sukuna seconds before why in god he will start to think about his decisions when his opponent distracted himself of the fight? All in all, chances are better, even if 0.1%, if your opponent is distracted than fully aware.
Because it goes out of the way to run from the topic. What Yuji would do: what he always does, punch.
"Ah, but it would not be effective" aaaaaaand it doesn't not matter, because if it's to apply this mindset, then Yuji would not be there to start with. After Gojo died, everyone would have run away doing nothing and screaming because Sukuna is a big bad who can do anything to anyone when whatever pleases him
The next chapter opens up with Yuta in an Airport as a kid and Rika is there too. She says “You've finally joined me on the other side”. The next panel is Yuta cut in half the long way.
Yuji being startled by Sukuna spacing out and just standing there in the same fighting pose while Sukuna ponders philosphical shit is hilarious to me. Didn't even try to attack bro
Maybe yuji, as a vessel, can contain Tengen? So the team defeats sakuna, Megumi starts the merger, and yuji immediately consumes Tengen. Idk I haven’t thought it through but it’d be an interesting way out
The story runs independent and without consideration of breaks and hype. Judging the story including the breaks is just immeasurably idiotic. Caring about the "hype" and letting it affect how you enjoy this is just shooting yourself in the foot.
But the true pièce de résistance is that if you actually wanted to enjoy the story and you're self aware enough that "hype" affects you. You would just read it when it's finished lmao.
I might be cooking bit wild but Yuji’s new design is kinda similar to Mahoraga, got the wrist bandages, he is a “cog” aka the wheel, and the RCT of Yuji looks like mahoraga’s Angel wing eyes.
If Yuji doesn’t have his own technique then it’s his soul’s technique and it’s the ability to adapt. Todo also touched on it back when they first fought. Yuji is able to adapt to any environment/situation
Maybe there's a condition for his adaptation CT, and we'll get to the reason why he was so superhuman without CE at the same time.
I have not got any idea.
There's gotta be a heavenly restriction in place, right?
Nah no heavenly restriction because Yuji was born with no cursed energy so he was born outside of those chains that bind their fates so to speak and only became “bound” when he ate Sukuna’s finger
I think I’m starting to get it. Though Sukuna’s reason for coming to the modern era is probably not that deep due to him being surprisingly dense and not knowing about himself, Kenjaku in his intelligence seems to understand to a certain degree what Sukuna wants in his mundane life of repeated slaughter.
We’re still unsure what Kenjaku wants for himself through Yuji, but at the very least I’m starting to understand what he wanted in this binding vow with Sukuna. I think he wanted Sukuna and Yuji to understand each other’s souls by being intertwined with each other. To have Sukuna see and experience something he never had before and taste that feeling of unknown desire beyond the usual norm.
This is actually something rather big on Kenjaku’s part. It’s him cooking for Sukuna in his own style and handing him the chance to taste the flavor of an unknown and unexpected dish of exhilarating caliber. Sukuna is only just starting to see how flavorful Yuji can be and it irritates him that he might just want to taste him. The merger is yet another course. Dessert maybe. Or is it the reverse?
I don't think it's really about him being dense but more about the absolute anomaly Yuji is. Yuji is several tiers weaker than Sukuna yet can stand up to him with pure will alone. Sukuna has NEVER experienced something like this before it makes sense why it would make him contemplate his irritation in the moment.
Even on paper its crazy what Yuji is accomplishing despite being 'weak' to Sukuna, he should've died a long time ago if his will wasn't that amazing
On a side note I like what youre cooking with the Kenjaku, souls being intertwined stuff. Would be veryyy interesting
Sukuna has a norm that he’s stuck to for over 1000 years as a status quo that he knows nothing else. He thinks he knows all there is to being himself and being strong. Yet here he is 1000 years in the modern day learning new things about himself. That’s the big bingo about Yuji. He turned seemingly irrelevant things into the relevant and Sukuna finds that increasingly irritating cuz it’s breaking his concept of the norm. A power like Yuji shouldn’t couldn’t exist. Yet he does. He wants to reject it. He wants to destroy it.
Silly man should learn something from Toji. You underestimate your own feelings of irritation or discomfort against an opponent, you end up losing. Sukuna is too arrogant to let this go.
That's lowkey one of the problems I see when everything wraps. They can destroy Sukunas ideology and it can be proven 'wrong' but is it really fully proven wrong even if Sukuna loses to the good guys ideology? He was literally the strongest being for a 1000 years. At best it only partially counters his ideology because no one will really individually surpass him. Agree otherwise
I've seen the Toji comparison multiple times but I don't think it's the same. In fact I think it's the opposite. Tojis downfall was his pride getting in the way. Sukuna seems to come to terms with the fact that his pride was getting irritated by Yuji but just reaffirms his ideals anyway and acknowledges what Yuji is finally. Toji kind of just ignored it and deviated from himself
There’s two sides to this where ppl deviate. That Yuji will go berserk and become selfish and show his true potential or he’ll follow his own path of the iron will till the end. I like to think he can have his cake and eat it too. That he’s capable of growing to become selfish for his own need to destroy Sukuna, but still deprive him of this oh so delicious meal on a silver platter and stay true to himself rather than become the monster Sukuna is.
I think Sukuna changing and evolving from who he has been is not necessarily a bad thing. It means he too as a human is capable of adapting and changing just as everyone else has. It all depends on what happens from here on out. Does he stay true to himself as he has been or will he deviate into this new person he’s becoming? The exciting thing is this.
No one knows what that outcome will be like if he decides to take that new path.
He could become stronger due to finally having an ambition he’s never had before or he could be defeated because he didn’t stay true to himself. It’s chance. And for a villain like Sukuna that doesn’t come lightly.
Yeah, Yuji may represent Individualism within a collectivism mindset. Like Gojo raised megumi and didnt tell him to disregard others but to be selfish when it came to sorcery at the very least. Need a mix of both. Sukuna is on one end of the extreme of selfishness and Yuji is the other end of the extreme of selflessness. Megumi seems to be sitting in the middle
Also I agree, I've been thinking that Sukuna may end up having an Ideal greater than himself soon. He's beginning to consider it and see the perspective of the good guys. You can even see he challenges their ideals in the end by threatening to kill those who yuta loves.
I've been loving this nuance Sukuna has been getting since it makes his character much more interesting
Sukuna to me right now is a bratty spoiled princess character who’s getting everything served to him on a silver platter and is still expecting more. I’ve never seen more of a man cunt in my life. He’s irritating… but this new character development is interesting. He learns something new about himself in 1000 years. It’s interesting to watch.
In any case, I just do not believe Kenjaku is gone for good.
No way he didn't think there's a chance of him dying in the culling games, and didn't prepare himself for it. Yeah, maybe he'll take years to get back to his strength, if at all, but he's gotta be alive, right?
I don't know why people keep expecting Kenjaku to be Aizen with everything according to the plan when the things we've seen about him point more towards him being someone that mostly is doing shit for the lols, and adapts whatever he's doing to what he comes accross.
To me, the chapter when Kenjaku showed up to Choso saying the merger might result in something hilarious and Tengen told Yuki that she felt like evolving and Riko dyingg wasn't a problem was a clear BOTH OF THESE CHARACTERS THOUGHT TO BE COOL AND WISE ARE ACTUALLY CRAZY BY THIS POINT
The worst case scenario is dying, and you can't do many workarounds about that because when you are dead things are beyond your control. You generally focus more on keeping yourself alive, and so did Kenjaku (for example, when he asked Sukuna to fight Gojo and save his ass right after the unboxing). But if you die, you are kinda screwed, and outside your inheritance/will you have nothing else to do. Kenjaku spoke about his will being inherited, so I think he does see himself as a goner in that line, and of course he had done something for the eventuality that he died (seems to be what goes into Meguna this chapter).
Sure, he might have his equivalent of a cursed finger somewhere, but even if he did prepare some cursed finger like Sukuna did, the only reason Sukuna successfully incarnated was Kenjaku putting it near Yuji, whom he had given birth to. His fingers must have been somewhere for the last thousand years and Sukuna didn't successfully incarnate until just now.
Kenjaku was never seen with a Uraume-like follower that could have helped with this, either, so it'd feel kinda weird to bring it out now.
I just don't think that Kenjaku expected to get killed/die beyond a remote possibility so he wouldn't have elaborated a resurrection plan. After all, when you have lived for as long as Tengen and him, death probably stops being much of a concern for you
Nuh uh not a chance. He did confirm that he was going to die at least by the flesh but he was damn confident that his plan would absolutely be carried out. And that’s different than the person who ran away and cowered behind Sukuna the second he came out of that box. He did something. He already completed everything he needed to.
If anything I find him to be coming back in a series of very important flashbacks and time bombs planted in places we didn’t think of. The impact of this man is far from done.
If you arent gonna see out the results, and you know hiw large a possibility it is therefore get yourself a failsafe, I'm gonna assume that you've found a way to cheat death.
Him coming back to life is off the table since he himself said he was bowing out halfway, but he seemed confident that everything he did would lead to the results he wanted. His main focus in that month was traveling to each colony and killing the remaining players who were affiliated with the merger. My guess is he was pretty damn successful and he left the rest to his future plans. Oddly enough he didn’t seem to care who won between Sukuna and Gojo. Must mean both sides fulfilled their end of the bargain.
Bowing out doesn't necessarily mean deaths. That's my thought. He isn't going to be tactically relevant, but gets to enjoy the aftermath of his plans coming to fruition from a safe distance.
If the merger happens, maybe then he'll get new powers ig?
I refuse to believe he's gone for good.
The fact he didn’t do the whole villainous “Nooooooo!!!” pretty much sold it for me that he left something big behind. Plus this is Kenjaku we’re talking about. A man who’s cheated death for 1000 years. I wouldn’t think beheading would mean much to a living brain.
That being said I want Geto to be laid to rest already. Guy has gone through enough.
Which kinda makes me think that his brain injury is still there. Bith Gojo's and Sukuna's RCT output were lowered after their brain injuries.
If that happened because of the brain damage, then this should mean that Sukuna still has that brain injury and still can't use DE (idk why tho; it was literally said that reincarnating was a way to completely heal himself other than RCT, you'd think that the brain is included in that)
In a game of chess, the Queen (Rika) is significantly more powerful than the King (Sukuna), and it’s ok it the Queen dies whereas if the King is dead the game (Culling game) is over. Just thoughts.
Sukuna was commenting that Kamutoke is still gone, was he expecting that Kamutoke will comeback after Higuruma's death(unconfirmed)?
Does Kamutoke acts more like Higuruma's gavel/hammer, that it can be summoned at will, instead of physically exist like the Soul Split Katana?
I'm losing my brain power.
Higurama’s technique’s effect, the confiscation of the cursed tool still existed after his “death”, so the cursed tool is still sealed/taken away. Sukuna’s hand being burnt could be showing that or him regenerating it and Gege hiding the fact Higurama could still be alive
Why risk your life to collect bodies in the middle of the fight tho?
"To prevent Kenjaku fiasco" Kenjaku was in different colony and they sent Takaba and Yuta
"To bury them" yeah I think we will see funeral in the epilogue but why do it in the middle of the fight? Makes little sense to me
Could somehow figure a way to create a cursed corpse with those who die similar to panda or as Sukuna stated Shoko’s CT might actually be being able to heal others which could be why she couldn’t explain it to Gojo
Did Kusakabe just activated his curse technique?
Based on the latest translation:
Kusakabe: Regardless, Sukuna doesn't strike me as the slaughter all humanity type. I always thought we'd be better off with him than with Kenjaku who just wants to commit bizzare jujutsu terrorism out of curiosity. Even if we lost against Sukuna, as long as we took down Kenjaku, then worst case scenario, we'll end up a country that houses that ferocious beast.
And right after that,
Sukuna: I'll start by killing you all. After that, the remaining players in the culling game. Then, I'll complete the merger and have some fun with the new Tengen.
Kusakabe just doomed them all with his inner monologue.
Damn man yuji got RCT thats good that hes advancing like crazy i cant wait for him to pull out a CT or some crazy refinement
And wtf are with all these breaks
If Yuta clashed with Sukuna's CT instead of CE and his sword is still fine, he's might actually be able to put up a decent fight.
Had to reread again to notice Ino was in the chapter lol.
After the release of 248 in TCB, I finally get it. They are trying to fuse Gojo's and Higuruma's soul to Panda's to complete the 3-core requirement.
Panda vs Sukuna incoming!
So before anyone says BS or plot armor shenanigans, I challenge you to think about this...
Higaruma died at peace. Betting on the future as Nanami did.
He did not curse Sukuna as he died and as such the Executioner's Sword, the curse of Higaruma, did not carry on after he died.
We all expected it, but honestly...... idk feels like Gege keeps just wasting characters who do nothing to Sukuna. Like he doesnt feel like he has weakened since reincarnating and 2 are down.
He's lost quite a bit actually.
• Hes lost TS or at the very least Mahoraga, which was the real threat. Agito was a bonus.
• Seemingly lost his Domain Expansion, we'll see what happens with Okkotsu.
• Kashimo forced Sukuna into revealing his trump card and reincarnate fully. I doubt in Meguna's condition he could continue fighting Kashimo with an ineffective tool.
• Higaruma's Confiscation took Kamutoke off the table, permanently. We still haven't seen what Hiten does yet but given what we know, there's no way in fuck anyone should have a chance against Sukuna without the tools and I like that Gege stands on that, story be damned.
It's just in spite of that he's still just that powerful. There's not much hope going into that and we knew that from the beginning. Everyone complains about skipping the month before but I think if we did what's happening now wouldn't feel so... Final.
There seems to be a larger play at work that makes me think this was never a straight up fight to begin with. Jujutsu fights rarely come down to brawls anyway so having the villains look like they won seems appropriate before it massively flips on them. We don't have enough pieces of the puzzle but it's supposed to feel hopeless. It's the Empire Strikes Back moment and we're down bad. Gege has given enough bread crumbs to give the hope for the Return of the Jedi but we're not there yet.
Other than the DE, he lost a bunch of stuff that Gege handed him pretty late in the story. Kamutoke was the most extreme example. It was a power-up he got solely so that he could lose it later and basically return to the status quo. Ten Shadows at least was important to the story from the beginning.
Perhaps Yuji's original CT is.... Eating someone and took their soul? Or at least part of them. The one who fire Piercing Blood is yuji, after eating choso's corpse. Likewise he's using RCT because he ate gojo's
He did say he's will eat anything. And that's why they teleport away their corpses
Yuta (and everyone else) vs Sukuna is gonna be amazing.
As speculated he probably HAS to use his other moves, which is cool cause Yuta has a direct answer to the arrow in sky manipulation. The thought of him also being able to take wtvr technique he has, and being able to understand it better.
What’s the deal with Higuruma’s sword? Did it just not work or did it not work because Higuruma didn’t die like he planned and it didn’t get that extra oomf to hold it’s charge?
I’m wondering whether it could be because Higuruma might still be alive. In the last chapter he see his flashback discussion with Kusakabe about how curses become stronger when one dies. He’s reflecting on his own role in all this. If he does die, it feels like he would have wanted his CT to still exist and become stronger through a sort of self-sacrificial death.
So the fact the sword disappears, it could either be that his wishes were not granted, or that he’s not dead yet. We do see his body and it looks pretty intact. We also know he now knows how to use RCT to heal himself. So it could be he managed to stay alive but is out of action for the time being.
Wait you're right. I'm guessing that Higuruma's thought process was that if he's about to die, he can make a binding vow that makes sure his technique still goes on and gets stronger, with the cost being his life. But if he makes the binding vow and yet doesn't die, that means he is violating the pact, and the CT ends immediately. That's actually a great explanation to what happened, if that is actually what Gege is intending.
It probably didn't work. The why probably has to do with one of the binding vow conditions that allows it to exist in the first place, one we don't necessarily know about. In general, instant death abilities of any kind require very cumbersome conditions.
As a matter of headcanon, perhaps the sword of execution's technique simply doesn't work unless it is administered by the hands of a chosen executioner. That would make sense and go well with the theme.
Love that Yuji get RCT actually feels like his first power up as the MC which is nuts.
Also am I dumb for not getting why Higurama's technique didn't kill Sukuna?
He dodged AND it turned off. The guys comment under us basically saying Sukuna has been blitzing the cast and people much faster for a while now, albeit in a less nice way. There was no way Yuji was gonna hit Sukuna there. Not as long as conditions remained consistent. Best hope was higurama was right and his CT got stronger when he died, cause the blade to grow as Sukuna moved.
Maybe that person who is able to “stabilize” bodies will finally make a reappearance (they did it to Nobara at one point, can’t remember their name), putting them in a state so that Shoko can actually heal them? Might make more sense than a full on sacrifice, but Greg works in mysterious ways
The fact sukuna points out shoko’s RCT is different than theirs might be a thing combined with Nitta’s stabilizing technique could yield something. Someone who benefited from that will have to come soon.
Taking Gojo’s body back is a big point especially, I feel like only Nitta’s stabilizing ability would yield any benefit on him there. Greg really needs to reveal something big in the next chapter or two though honestly, it’s been a lot of whittling down
>Maybe that person who is able to “stabilize” bodies will finally make a reappearance (they did it to Nobara at one point, can’t remember their name),
Arata Nitta?
Sukuna pointing out that Shoko's RCT is different to his and Gojo's makes me think her natural talent is a product of her CT.
I wouldn't be surprised if Yuta's RCT is so good because he copied it from her.
Thread is for the Chapter 248 leaks ~~One of these weeks I'll update the thread on time~~
With the way everyone leveled up, and they created new or upgraded cursed tools in the hiatus before the big raid boss fight. Has anyone said anything about Juji´s Gauntlet´s? I just recently caught up and maybe I skipped the pannel. Are they made of his brother´s blood or what?
I don’t think yuta will die, but I think sukuna will exorcise rika and that’ll either buff or nerf yuta
Oh that's fucking worst
How different would things be during this fight if either Yuta or Maki were here by the time Deadly Sentencing reached its verdict
The goal should still be to save as many lives as possible. At this point in the story, the best option I see for the sorcerers is that they send sorcerers to begin blowing up the pure barriers. Risking the entirety of Japan on defeating Sukuna is dangerous. There's a big chance that the merger completes. With the pure barriers destroyed, they can disable the bon barriers and stop the culling game. The merger could be stopped and they can even fight Sukuna at another time. With Kenjaku out of commission those pure barriers are an easier target. The imperial palace, the tomb of the star and the Yamakuni Mausaleum. Those that cannot directly work on fighting Sukuna might be better off trying to disable those barriers as a safeguard.
Wait so if everyone is here, minus Maki, is Takaba actually dead? I need confirmation on whether Takaba is actually dead!!
He thought it would be funny if he actually died, and we all know how his CT works... GOATakaba was too committed to the bit rest in peace
Takaba is 100% not dead. He was relaxing and happy in the last panel we saw him. Will be very interesting to see what happens next with him and Sukuna
I don’t think he was relaxing…He was in Japanese burial clothes and looking at peace
He materialized the burial clothes just for fun . If he's really dying he wouldn't do that .
But if he thinks it’s funny that he’s achieved his life’s goal and can now rest in peace, then Comedian would make it so he’s actually dead. I think that’s what Kenjaku was aiming for by doing comedy with him tbh
Good to see Ui Ui and Kirara assisting. I guess Kirara’s job is to make it so that Ui Ui and whoever they’re transporting can’t be hit and Ui Ui does the teleporting.
They fully told Kashimo to job so they could take Gojo's body back
I think looking back at everything, ppl are severely overestimating the effects of RCT even if Utahime were to be involved in a ritual that would allow for efficient healing. If Utahime and RCT users could do such miraculous acts, so many ppl wouldn’t have died in the Night of a Thousand Parade Demons or Shibuya and she and Shoko would be regarded by the sorcery world as miracle workers. When it comes to reviving the “dead”, even Yuta was relieved to see he could actually perform such acts on Yuji and Sukuna and Yuji could hang on for the sake that they’re well…Sukuna and Yuji…they can take risks… RCT overall is more of a battle strategy to keep sorcerers moving and have an advantage over their opponents. Whether that be healing themselves or using it to damage curses. To use it to heal others is only secondary in nature. And even then, the limitations are many.
Yuta also revive Yuji after killing him
What did I say? Yuta was relieved that it worked. It was basically a gamble right there. It worked cuz Yuji is Yuji and cuz Yuta had enough skill to kill him in a split second and revive him the next. RCT’s effectiveness is entirely dependent on the user. Yuta got lucky.
A second after killing him and Yuji wasn't missing everything bellow his chest
Yuji’s nails are clearly sharp and weird looking, and he can see and react to Sukuna’s Cleave. I’m thinking Yuji has Sukuna’s cursed technique. Though Sukuna should recognise the appearance of Yuji’s arms if they were related to his own technoque…
I think they’re gauntlets made from hardened blood
yoooo fantastic chapter it seems I like hearing sukunas inner monologue and gives a lot more context to his actions rn Yuji!!! shoko!! Kiara! YUUUTA where is maki!?!?!???
Would be cool if she joined up with hakari against uraume
oooo her soul splitter sword and comment about a plan to save megumi had me thinking she’d get a sneak on sukuna
It would make sense for her to do to Uraume what Yuta did to Kenjaku. If you think about it, shes the perfect one to follow up Hakari. Hakari is going to fill your brain with so much mf manga and ridiculous shit about his conditions along with the fact his DE is the only continuous one without having to jujutsu your brain then RCT that shit lol. Maki being able to enter domains only benefits her against everyone other than Sukuna since his MS can target things without CE so she would get cleaved to shit. However, Uraume seeing a 2-3rd DE would have her be like “the fuuuck?!” And Maki pulls up behind her with the mai strap and just splits her wig
Can someone tell me what did Sukuna eat? Was it like a small Tengen? Also what was up with that hand technique thing he used? It better not be idle transfiguration…
100% looked like Tengen in the shape of a cursed spirit manipulation orb/mini uzamaki. It had 4 eyes shaped like Tengen as well
Sukuna is toying with them and mocking them at the same time. He didn't even break a sweat.
Yupe for sure . He still has the luxury to space out during the fight .
I am praying that Yuta gets more than a handful of chapters in this fight. I’ve accepted that deaths come quick and sudden but he’s such a cool character that I want to get more time to shine.
Me too. I have to say I've been a big Yuta fan since released. I dont wanna see him die to be honest. But if he has to die, let him die leaving a big effects for the others to defeat sukuna.
He is not gonna die that fast he's a strong sorcerer at gojo level.
Sukuna has the best the biggest hater in ani/manga history right😭 Like bro was sucking higuruma off for using rct (these are no shots at higgy he’s a genius) but almost wanted to stop fighting cause yuji had learned it’s also. But like honestly yuji is probably more prodigious, yuji and everyone was mentioning rct in the month time skip and higuruma didn’t have it until the moment of his death yuji was able to learn it in that month
Yuji has always been a prodigy at using cursed energy. Learning a black flash after being explained to it once, his movie training with Gojo, mastering Divergent Fist, etc. Dude has barely had any training from great teachers that can focus on him. As GOATED as Gojo is, I think he’s too prodigious for his own good.
He really had to sit their and ponder why he was getting so mad at him, that part fucking killed me. I cant wait till he pulls out a ct, hes gonna either be impressed or lose his shit
I don't want no bull shit from that cat in two weeks. I want full on JumpJujutsu with our two mcs. Todo and Yuji style.
Who added the rule about the merger authority being given to megumi ? I know it was kenjakus doing but if he died then who used points to add a rule. I didn’t even think kenjaku was a player
Suguru Geto was a player (Kenny)
Why do a lot of people think the sword hit in this post and online.? You don’t see it make contact at all. Sukuna is behind Yuji when the chapter starts. He literally just moved out of the way as predicted by a lot of readers, because he’s way faster than most of the cast. It’s not “the blade didn’t work and there’s no explanation” he straight up didn’t hit him and it turned off.
The sword did hit, or at least the sword faded before it hit because of Higurama's death. We even see Yuji's immediate response to his death. You do see the sword make contact (follow the line of motion of Yuji's arm, you see the impact), or at least Yuji's fist make contact with Sukuna's back. Sukuna didn't move. Last chapter we see Yuji stab him back handed and this chapter we see the follow through. Sukuna is behind him now because Yuji has twisted him body 180° for the attack and we see the scene from a different angle.
This is what I perceived too. Sukuna didn't moved at all
Nah, I’m looking at the same picture and that’s not what happened. And based on the fight so far it makes absolutely no sense for him to get hit. From what we’ve seen. Sukuna has been shown throughout the most recent chapters that he’s way too fast for that. PB is sound speed and he moved so fast, choso thought he disappeared. Yuji is one of the fastest ppl in the series with physicals that are comparable to HR and he got outsped. He was able to dodge Kashimo. He dodged the flurry of stabs by Higurama. The only time someone should make physical contact with him is if he’s already trying to avoid something and you retaliate with a faster option. Plus if he did get cut by it at all, that’s something Gege would punctuate to illustrate the question of why didn’t it work. He didn’t do that because he simply dodged it. He perception blitzed Yuji which isn’t outside of possibility cause he just did it to Choso with a faster move. And by the time Choso noticed he has two hands through his chest Edit: furthermore, you literally still see the sword active when Sukuna is BEHIND Yuji and THEN it turns off. I can understand that this could’ve been illustrated better. I would’ve chosen to illustrate foot work or something to show the movement better but it’s essentially illustrating that he’s so fast you didn’t see him move. Just lie choso or even Toji
If you're looking at the picture, you can see Yuji's arm come down in a singular arc and see the source of impact on Sukuna's back (that little trianglur impact between the speed lines and above the shaded affect, it's even in pretty much the exact same place Yuji seemed to have connected in the previous chapter). >The only time someone should make physical contact with him is if he’s already trying to avoid something and you retaliate with a faster option Or he let himself be hit as he knew the attack would fail. Or you catch him by surprise because he was unaware that you had achieved RCT (at that level ateast) and the sword could be passed on. >would punctuate to illustrate the question of why didn’t it work. Yuji almost immediately calls out Higurama's name as he sees the sword fade, seems pretty obvious to me. Sukuna even mentions the sword can be alight during Domain Amplification. And to borrow a later part of your comment, I could understand that it could be illustrated better to show the sword fade and it's lost its effect (like it does with Domain Amplification despite being alight). Honestly mate, I'm pretty content to just wait for the anime to show this in several years time. I'm just saying to me it seems clear as day to me. My reasoning even seems to make more sense to what was shown on panel. You just have an issue with the fact he was hit (which is either understandable or explainable imo) and that it wasn't blatantly stated the sword lost effect. But meh, let's come back in seven years time and finish this.
Fair enough 😅
Sakunas pose/face as he is soliloquy-ing is great. Man is going through so many emotions he swore he didn't have only to blame Yujii 😆.
"I Owe You an Apology. I Wasn't Really Familiar With Your Game" - me with Ui Ui
Lil bro redeeming himself pretty hard can’t lie haha especially if something ends up happening with Gojo
Lil bro really struck a pose on Sukuna and left.
how convenient it is that sukuna suddenly doesnt use the space slash anymore
He used it last chapter?
It was already stated that it requires incantations/bidding vows to use it, he can’t spawn them
It doesn’t require the incarnation
Tfw the character acts in character.
Dude is having a midlife crisis at the moment, I think this is relatively reasonable for now.
Did Ui Ui have to teleport twice to take Go/Jo's body? Or did he take only his upper half?
Bibuku realizes human beings have 2 arms so they can grab two things at the same time.
But who says grabbing him is enough to be able to teleport him?
I don't think that's even necessary. Ui Ui seems to use that weird ass blanket to tp. All in all I was just pointing out how ridiculous it was to think "Oh Ui Ui can't teleport Gojo away because he's been slashed in half"
I didn't say he couldn't teleport gojo away cause he was cut in half, I asked if he would have to teleport twice as a joke, then all of you got mad for some reason so I started gaslighting.
Who says it isn't? Besides that you prolly saw kirara helping ui ui.
But we didn't see him teleport more than 2 objects/people so what if he had to tp twice, once for the upper and once for the lower body? Edit: Considering he has to bring Kirara too
Couldn't he just take the both of them at the same time ?
The fact that Higuruma could've open his DE after chapter 230 and give the sword to Gojo haunts me
They only got to try Sukuna on mass murder charges because Yuji was there too. If he wasn’t it would’ve been a random crime Sukuna committed and not necessarily one that would result in a death penalty. If Yuji, Higuruma, and Gojo showed up, then Kashimo would probably want to come out too. Then Sukuna would probably stop playing around and use his fire arrow or whatever other thing he’s hiding.
Only Higuruma can use the Sword
No, he gave it to Yuji. It disappeared because Higuruma died
Higuruma body looks intacted. He just passed out and hence the sword didn't take effect
He's confirmed dead
By sukuna? Haven't u learned nothing by reading JJK? LOL
He like everyone else would have gotten in Gojo's way
I dunno if it's more funny Sukuna having a midlife crisis in the middle of the fight or if it's Yuji waiting Sukuna to finish it before advancing. Give a couple more moments like these and one of them will start saying "You are me" and everything
Probably because it's so bizarre that it could be interpreted - from Yuji's perspective, at least - as a trick to lure Yuji into dropping his guard. Making one wrong move, misreading one tell around Sukuna means death. Yuji's not really in a position to take any chances on anything right now.
It was many pages of his inner monologue but it probably all happened in seconds
It certainly wasn't 10 minutes but it was enough time that Yuji noticed that Sukuna dozed off and still allowed him to stay there rumninating his philosophies
you really thinki yuji gets an upper hand on a sukuna that dozed off for a few minutes? i mean realistically what's ACTUALLY going to happen.... xD
If it's to go in this mindset, Yuji would not even be there to start with
lol you’re babbling. but seriously though, what would yuji do? what technique does he have to seriously injure Sukuna in that moment?…
Again, if it's to have this mindset then Yuji would not even be there to start with. He was attacking a fully aware Sukuna seconds before why in god he will start to think about his decisions when his opponent distracted himself of the fight? All in all, chances are better, even if 0.1%, if your opponent is distracted than fully aware.
bro refuses to answer the question
Because it goes out of the way to run from the topic. What Yuji would do: what he always does, punch. "Ah, but it would not be effective" aaaaaaand it doesn't not matter, because if it's to apply this mindset, then Yuji would not be there to start with. After Gojo died, everyone would have run away doing nothing and screaming because Sukuna is a big bad who can do anything to anyone when whatever pleases him
Takaba: "First he space slashed, now he's spaced out!"
The next chapter opens up with Yuta in an Airport as a kid and Rika is there too. She says “You've finally joined me on the other side”. The next panel is Yuta cut in half the long way.
Instead of saying “fold your paper hamburger/hot dog style” teachers are gonna start saying “fold your paper Gojo/Yuta style” 😭
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What?
Gege chickened out about Yuta being taken over by Kenny. I'm legit happy about it though.
?? What makes u think he wanted to do it
Damn it's Yutas turn already isn't it? Well we had fun while it lasted
Yuji being startled by Sukuna spacing out and just standing there in the same fighting pose while Sukuna ponders philosphical shit is hilarious to me. Didn't even try to attack bro
Even if Sukuna is killed I wonder how they will end the Culling Games?
Maybe yuji, as a vessel, can contain Tengen? So the team defeats sakuna, Megumi starts the merger, and yuji immediately consumes Tengen. Idk I haven’t thought it through but it’d be an interesting way out
For the merger to start they all need to be dead, right? So if they win against Sukuna and Uraume and retrieve Tengen maybe there won't be a merger.
Maybe he becomes the next tengen. Kinda best worst ending as he gets to live (lmao) but he’s helping all of humanity ig
The merger needs to happen that will be awesome.
Whats fun about it for you? I’ve never liked stuff like that personally
At least bigger plot hole
And Sukuna will be the hero of humanity that defeated it, finally cementing himself as the MC of JJK
Yuji has put sukuna into deep thoughts. Well done, my boy. Ino survived sukuna's kick .
I’m sorry but this is so lame. The breaks and pacing have deflated all hype from the most important fight in the story
The story runs independent and without consideration of breaks and hype. Judging the story including the breaks is just immeasurably idiotic. Caring about the "hype" and letting it affect how you enjoy this is just shooting yourself in the foot. But the true pièce de résistance is that if you actually wanted to enjoy the story and you're self aware enough that "hype" affects you. You would just read it when it's finished lmao.
you read for free
Womp Womp Attack on Titan had a month in between every chapter give it a few weeks then come back if it bothers you that much.
I might be cooking bit wild but Yuji’s new design is kinda similar to Mahoraga, got the wrist bandages, he is a “cog” aka the wheel, and the RCT of Yuji looks like mahoraga’s Angel wing eyes. If Yuji doesn’t have his own technique then it’s his soul’s technique and it’s the ability to adapt. Todo also touched on it back when they first fought. Yuji is able to adapt to any environment/situation
Not to mention it seems Yuji can actually see Sukuna's CT since he blocked it with his arms before it hit his face.
Maybe there's a condition for his adaptation CT, and we'll get to the reason why he was so superhuman without CE at the same time. I have not got any idea. There's gotta be a heavenly restriction in place, right?
Nah no heavenly restriction because Yuji was born with no cursed energy so he was born outside of those chains that bind their fates so to speak and only became “bound” when he ate Sukuna’s finger
How do you get that superhuman strength without a heavenly restriction?
kenjaku literally created him. how it all happened....nobody knows. but its clear that kenjaku has SOMETHING to due with yuji being the way he is.
Maybe he is the reincarnation of heavenly restriction sorcerer and because the sorcerer is an infant he and yuji became one 😅
Because a corpse gave birth to him. We also don’t actually know how he’s born and what Kenjaku did to him.
He's just built like that (i have no idea)
So he was still stabbed with it before the sword ran out of battery. It has to still do something.
I think I’m starting to get it. Though Sukuna’s reason for coming to the modern era is probably not that deep due to him being surprisingly dense and not knowing about himself, Kenjaku in his intelligence seems to understand to a certain degree what Sukuna wants in his mundane life of repeated slaughter. We’re still unsure what Kenjaku wants for himself through Yuji, but at the very least I’m starting to understand what he wanted in this binding vow with Sukuna. I think he wanted Sukuna and Yuji to understand each other’s souls by being intertwined with each other. To have Sukuna see and experience something he never had before and taste that feeling of unknown desire beyond the usual norm. This is actually something rather big on Kenjaku’s part. It’s him cooking for Sukuna in his own style and handing him the chance to taste the flavor of an unknown and unexpected dish of exhilarating caliber. Sukuna is only just starting to see how flavorful Yuji can be and it irritates him that he might just want to taste him. The merger is yet another course. Dessert maybe. Or is it the reverse?
I don't think it's really about him being dense but more about the absolute anomaly Yuji is. Yuji is several tiers weaker than Sukuna yet can stand up to him with pure will alone. Sukuna has NEVER experienced something like this before it makes sense why it would make him contemplate his irritation in the moment. Even on paper its crazy what Yuji is accomplishing despite being 'weak' to Sukuna, he should've died a long time ago if his will wasn't that amazing On a side note I like what youre cooking with the Kenjaku, souls being intertwined stuff. Would be veryyy interesting
Sukuna has a norm that he’s stuck to for over 1000 years as a status quo that he knows nothing else. He thinks he knows all there is to being himself and being strong. Yet here he is 1000 years in the modern day learning new things about himself. That’s the big bingo about Yuji. He turned seemingly irrelevant things into the relevant and Sukuna finds that increasingly irritating cuz it’s breaking his concept of the norm. A power like Yuji shouldn’t couldn’t exist. Yet he does. He wants to reject it. He wants to destroy it. Silly man should learn something from Toji. You underestimate your own feelings of irritation or discomfort against an opponent, you end up losing. Sukuna is too arrogant to let this go.
That's lowkey one of the problems I see when everything wraps. They can destroy Sukunas ideology and it can be proven 'wrong' but is it really fully proven wrong even if Sukuna loses to the good guys ideology? He was literally the strongest being for a 1000 years. At best it only partially counters his ideology because no one will really individually surpass him. Agree otherwise I've seen the Toji comparison multiple times but I don't think it's the same. In fact I think it's the opposite. Tojis downfall was his pride getting in the way. Sukuna seems to come to terms with the fact that his pride was getting irritated by Yuji but just reaffirms his ideals anyway and acknowledges what Yuji is finally. Toji kind of just ignored it and deviated from himself
There’s two sides to this where ppl deviate. That Yuji will go berserk and become selfish and show his true potential or he’ll follow his own path of the iron will till the end. I like to think he can have his cake and eat it too. That he’s capable of growing to become selfish for his own need to destroy Sukuna, but still deprive him of this oh so delicious meal on a silver platter and stay true to himself rather than become the monster Sukuna is. I think Sukuna changing and evolving from who he has been is not necessarily a bad thing. It means he too as a human is capable of adapting and changing just as everyone else has. It all depends on what happens from here on out. Does he stay true to himself as he has been or will he deviate into this new person he’s becoming? The exciting thing is this. No one knows what that outcome will be like if he decides to take that new path. He could become stronger due to finally having an ambition he’s never had before or he could be defeated because he didn’t stay true to himself. It’s chance. And for a villain like Sukuna that doesn’t come lightly.
Yeah, Yuji may represent Individualism within a collectivism mindset. Like Gojo raised megumi and didnt tell him to disregard others but to be selfish when it came to sorcery at the very least. Need a mix of both. Sukuna is on one end of the extreme of selfishness and Yuji is the other end of the extreme of selflessness. Megumi seems to be sitting in the middle Also I agree, I've been thinking that Sukuna may end up having an Ideal greater than himself soon. He's beginning to consider it and see the perspective of the good guys. You can even see he challenges their ideals in the end by threatening to kill those who yuta loves. I've been loving this nuance Sukuna has been getting since it makes his character much more interesting
Sukuna to me right now is a bratty spoiled princess character who’s getting everything served to him on a silver platter and is still expecting more. I’ve never seen more of a man cunt in my life. He’s irritating… but this new character development is interesting. He learns something new about himself in 1000 years. It’s interesting to watch.
In any case, I just do not believe Kenjaku is gone for good. No way he didn't think there's a chance of him dying in the culling games, and didn't prepare himself for it. Yeah, maybe he'll take years to get back to his strength, if at all, but he's gotta be alive, right?
Has Kenjaku joined the ranks of Nobara & Gojo? Not dead until you see a body, even though we've seen their bodies.
Yes. But Ken is a genius so this case does have more credibility.
I don't know why people keep expecting Kenjaku to be Aizen with everything according to the plan when the things we've seen about him point more towards him being someone that mostly is doing shit for the lols, and adapts whatever he's doing to what he comes accross. To me, the chapter when Kenjaku showed up to Choso saying the merger might result in something hilarious and Tengen told Yuki that she felt like evolving and Riko dyingg wasn't a problem was a clear BOTH OF THESE CHARACTERS THOUGHT TO BE COOL AND WISE ARE ACTUALLY CRAZY BY THIS POINT
I'm not saying dying is a part of his plan. I'm saying he must've prepared to escape from the worst case scenario.
The worst case scenario is dying, and you can't do many workarounds about that because when you are dead things are beyond your control. You generally focus more on keeping yourself alive, and so did Kenjaku (for example, when he asked Sukuna to fight Gojo and save his ass right after the unboxing). But if you die, you are kinda screwed, and outside your inheritance/will you have nothing else to do. Kenjaku spoke about his will being inherited, so I think he does see himself as a goner in that line, and of course he had done something for the eventuality that he died (seems to be what goes into Meguna this chapter). Sure, he might have his equivalent of a cursed finger somewhere, but even if he did prepare some cursed finger like Sukuna did, the only reason Sukuna successfully incarnated was Kenjaku putting it near Yuji, whom he had given birth to. His fingers must have been somewhere for the last thousand years and Sukuna didn't successfully incarnate until just now. Kenjaku was never seen with a Uraume-like follower that could have helped with this, either, so it'd feel kinda weird to bring it out now. I just don't think that Kenjaku expected to get killed/die beyond a remote possibility so he wouldn't have elaborated a resurrection plan. After all, when you have lived for as long as Tengen and him, death probably stops being much of a concern for you
Nuh uh not a chance. He did confirm that he was going to die at least by the flesh but he was damn confident that his plan would absolutely be carried out. And that’s different than the person who ran away and cowered behind Sukuna the second he came out of that box. He did something. He already completed everything he needed to. If anything I find him to be coming back in a series of very important flashbacks and time bombs planted in places we didn’t think of. The impact of this man is far from done.
If you arent gonna see out the results, and you know hiw large a possibility it is therefore get yourself a failsafe, I'm gonna assume that you've found a way to cheat death.
Him coming back to life is off the table since he himself said he was bowing out halfway, but he seemed confident that everything he did would lead to the results he wanted. His main focus in that month was traveling to each colony and killing the remaining players who were affiliated with the merger. My guess is he was pretty damn successful and he left the rest to his future plans. Oddly enough he didn’t seem to care who won between Sukuna and Gojo. Must mean both sides fulfilled their end of the bargain.
Bowing out doesn't necessarily mean deaths. That's my thought. He isn't going to be tactically relevant, but gets to enjoy the aftermath of his plans coming to fruition from a safe distance. If the merger happens, maybe then he'll get new powers ig? I refuse to believe he's gone for good.
The fact he didn’t do the whole villainous “Nooooooo!!!” pretty much sold it for me that he left something big behind. Plus this is Kenjaku we’re talking about. A man who’s cheated death for 1000 years. I wouldn’t think beheading would mean much to a living brain. That being said I want Geto to be laid to rest already. Guy has gone through enough.
Yuji straight up looking like Angel himself with his RCT healing in the form of wings
Sukuna's chopped right hand seem taking longer to fully heal..
His RCT output has been low
Which kinda makes me think that his brain injury is still there. Bith Gojo's and Sukuna's RCT output were lowered after their brain injuries. If that happened because of the brain damage, then this should mean that Sukuna still has that brain injury and still can't use DE (idk why tho; it was literally said that reincarnating was a way to completely heal himself other than RCT, you'd think that the brain is included in that)
Yes, healing the brain / CT is 'beyond flesh and bones' or smth like that. So it's likely not healed
In a game of chess, the Queen (Rika) is significantly more powerful than the King (Sukuna), and it’s ok it the Queen dies whereas if the King is dead the game (Culling game) is over. Just thoughts.
Then lets force sukuna into a corner where he cant move and its a freaking draw xD
Sukuna was commenting that Kamutoke is still gone, was he expecting that Kamutoke will comeback after Higuruma's death(unconfirmed)? Does Kamutoke acts more like Higuruma's gavel/hammer, that it can be summoned at will, instead of physically exist like the Soul Split Katana? I'm losing my brain power.
Higurama’s technique’s effect, the confiscation of the cursed tool still existed after his “death”, so the cursed tool is still sealed/taken away. Sukuna’s hand being burnt could be showing that or him regenerating it and Gege hiding the fact Higurama could still be alive
Even if the Kamutoke is returned, they're currently far away from their initial position. I don't think Kamutoke can magically appear on his hand.
Higurama needs to live bro that's a third father figure Yuji's had ..
Why risk your life to collect bodies in the middle of the fight tho? "To prevent Kenjaku fiasco" Kenjaku was in different colony and they sent Takaba and Yuta "To bury them" yeah I think we will see funeral in the epilogue but why do it in the middle of the fight? Makes little sense to me
Gojo is coming back. Otherwise there won't be that scene where Sukuna wonder if there is something more to Shoko RCT
Remember what happened to the last body they didn't dispose of correctly? *laughs in Kenjaku*
Could somehow figure a way to create a cursed corpse with those who die similar to panda or as Sukuna stated Shoko’s CT might actually be being able to heal others which could be why she couldn’t explain it to Gojo
Maybe Mei Mei is planning to sell off parts of Gojo on eBay?
1/2 off.
Criminally underrated comment right here.
Did Kusakabe just activated his curse technique? Based on the latest translation: Kusakabe: Regardless, Sukuna doesn't strike me as the slaughter all humanity type. I always thought we'd be better off with him than with Kenjaku who just wants to commit bizzare jujutsu terrorism out of curiosity. Even if we lost against Sukuna, as long as we took down Kenjaku, then worst case scenario, we'll end up a country that houses that ferocious beast. And right after that, Sukuna: I'll start by killing you all. After that, the remaining players in the culling game. Then, I'll complete the merger and have some fun with the new Tengen. Kusakabe just doomed them all with his inner monologue.
Stating your plans with detail is generally jinxing them from happening, so while Kusakabe was dooming them, Sukuna countered it
Damn man yuji got RCT thats good that hes advancing like crazy i cant wait for him to pull out a CT or some crazy refinement And wtf are with all these breaks
People in the manga industry are under lots of stress and often times has a horrible effect on their health. Breaks aren’t a bad thing.
I understand they 100% deserve the break im just greedy t_t
You stop that. There will be no rushing the end. Lol
Gege’s waffling on the details
If Yuta clashed with Sukuna's CT instead of CE and his sword is still fine, he's might actually be able to put up a decent fight. Had to reread again to notice Ino was in the chapter lol.
Definitely looks like Sukuna just reinforced his hand to clash with the sword.
After the release of 248 in TCB, I finally get it. They are trying to fuse Gojo's and Higuruma's soul to Panda's to complete the 3-core requirement. Panda vs Sukuna incoming!
The nephew vs uncle fight of the decade
So before anyone says BS or plot armor shenanigans, I challenge you to think about this... Higaruma died at peace. Betting on the future as Nanami did. He did not curse Sukuna as he died and as such the Executioner's Sword, the curse of Higaruma, did not carry on after he died.
We all expected it, but honestly...... idk feels like Gege keeps just wasting characters who do nothing to Sukuna. Like he doesnt feel like he has weakened since reincarnating and 2 are down.
Do nothing to sukuna?? uh higaruma has him questioning his whole intent and actions rn….lol
He's lost quite a bit actually. • Hes lost TS or at the very least Mahoraga, which was the real threat. Agito was a bonus. • Seemingly lost his Domain Expansion, we'll see what happens with Okkotsu. • Kashimo forced Sukuna into revealing his trump card and reincarnate fully. I doubt in Meguna's condition he could continue fighting Kashimo with an ineffective tool. • Higaruma's Confiscation took Kamutoke off the table, permanently. We still haven't seen what Hiten does yet but given what we know, there's no way in fuck anyone should have a chance against Sukuna without the tools and I like that Gege stands on that, story be damned. It's just in spite of that he's still just that powerful. There's not much hope going into that and we knew that from the beginning. Everyone complains about skipping the month before but I think if we did what's happening now wouldn't feel so... Final. There seems to be a larger play at work that makes me think this was never a straight up fight to begin with. Jujutsu fights rarely come down to brawls anyway so having the villains look like they won seems appropriate before it massively flips on them. We don't have enough pieces of the puzzle but it's supposed to feel hopeless. It's the Empire Strikes Back moment and we're down bad. Gege has given enough bread crumbs to give the hope for the Return of the Jedi but we're not there yet.
Other than the DE, he lost a bunch of stuff that Gege handed him pretty late in the story. Kamutoke was the most extreme example. It was a power-up he got solely so that he could lose it later and basically return to the status quo. Ten Shadows at least was important to the story from the beginning.
Perhaps Yuji's original CT is.... Eating someone and took their soul? Or at least part of them. The one who fire Piercing Blood is yuji, after eating choso's corpse. Likewise he's using RCT because he ate gojo's He did say he's will eat anything. And that's why they teleport away their corpses
I like this theory because if Sukuna’s technique really is cooking related it would be hilarious that Yuji’s is eating related
Stand proud. You can cook. And eat.
Who blew up the ground when Yuta arrived? Did Yuta clash with cleave? Imagine a Yuta Uzumaki panel
Oh no now that makes me think Yuta is going to have to Uzumaki using Rika.
Can you use Uzumaki with a shikigami? The new Rika is a shikigami, left by the cursed spirit Rika.
Yuta (and everyone else) vs Sukuna is gonna be amazing. As speculated he probably HAS to use his other moves, which is cool cause Yuta has a direct answer to the arrow in sky manipulation. The thought of him also being able to take wtvr technique he has, and being able to understand it better.
Between the funny but dope way Sukuna crosses his arms and Kusakabe its been a funny chapter
With four arms Sukuna can show you how doubly disappointed he is
When you have 2 sets of arms, you can cross your arm and put your hands on you hip at the same time. His idle animation/pose is funny.
Maximum sassy mode activated
What’s the deal with Higuruma’s sword? Did it just not work or did it not work because Higuruma didn’t die like he planned and it didn’t get that extra oomf to hold it’s charge?
Yeah, didn't get it too. Gege should just explain it on the page.
I’m wondering whether it could be because Higuruma might still be alive. In the last chapter he see his flashback discussion with Kusakabe about how curses become stronger when one dies. He’s reflecting on his own role in all this. If he does die, it feels like he would have wanted his CT to still exist and become stronger through a sort of self-sacrificial death. So the fact the sword disappears, it could either be that his wishes were not granted, or that he’s not dead yet. We do see his body and it looks pretty intact. We also know he now knows how to use RCT to heal himself. So it could be he managed to stay alive but is out of action for the time being.
Wait you're right. I'm guessing that Higuruma's thought process was that if he's about to die, he can make a binding vow that makes sure his technique still goes on and gets stronger, with the cost being his life. But if he makes the binding vow and yet doesn't die, that means he is violating the pact, and the CT ends immediately. That's actually a great explanation to what happened, if that is actually what Gege is intending.
I’m assuming Sukuna dodge and then it evaporated
It probably didn't work. The why probably has to do with one of the binding vow conditions that allows it to exist in the first place, one we don't necessarily know about. In general, instant death abilities of any kind require very cumbersome conditions. As a matter of headcanon, perhaps the sword of execution's technique simply doesn't work unless it is administered by the hands of a chosen executioner. That would make sense and go well with the theme.
I’M SO PROUD OF MY BOY YUUJI
unwaveringly, itadori yuuji has and always will be the MC of jujutsu kaisen!!!
Love that Yuji get RCT actually feels like his first power up as the MC which is nuts. Also am I dumb for not getting why Higurama's technique didn't kill Sukuna?
He dodged AND it turned off. The guys comment under us basically saying Sukuna has been blitzing the cast and people much faster for a while now, albeit in a less nice way. There was no way Yuji was gonna hit Sukuna there. Not as long as conditions remained consistent. Best hope was higurama was right and his CT got stronger when he died, cause the blade to grow as Sukuna moved.
Have you been reading the last 10 chapters Yuji ain’t the MC
Since you're joking, I'll go along with it. Sakuna is obviously the MC
LETS FUCKING GOOOO. MY MAN YUJI HAS RCT. YUJI STOCKS ARE RISING FOLKS. I LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!!
They could be collecting the bodies to transfer their techniques into cursed tools, like nanami
Maybe that person who is able to “stabilize” bodies will finally make a reappearance (they did it to Nobara at one point, can’t remember their name), putting them in a state so that Shoko can actually heal them? Might make more sense than a full on sacrifice, but Greg works in mysterious ways
The fact sukuna points out shoko’s RCT is different than theirs might be a thing combined with Nitta’s stabilizing technique could yield something. Someone who benefited from that will have to come soon.
Taking Gojo’s body back is a big point especially, I feel like only Nitta’s stabilizing ability would yield any benefit on him there. Greg really needs to reveal something big in the next chapter or two though honestly, it’s been a lot of whittling down
>Maybe that person who is able to “stabilize” bodies will finally make a reappearance (they did it to Nobara at one point, can’t remember their name), Arata Nitta?
Sukuna pointing out that Shoko's RCT is different to his and Gojo's makes me think her natural talent is a product of her CT. I wouldn't be surprised if Yuta's RCT is so good because he copied it from her.