Its exactly my teory. That he learned the truth about jujutsu that its magic and you can turn your cursed energy in oter sh it beyond youre natural born technique.
the biggest piece of evidence you missed was mahoraga slashing gojos arm since as far as we know his adaptations besides gaining invulnerability to a technique is differently manipulating cursed energy to provide a different result !
I feel like the tattoos mean a lot actually. The tattoos are known to be markers of criminals in ancient japan. However, if they were ordinary tattoos, they wouldn’t appear 1000 years later when sukuna is in another body. This would imply the tattoos were imprinted onto his soul rather than just his own physical body
@@Allons-Y-04 it's actually connected to the Buddhist hell. Specifically the 2nd level of Hot Hell, or Tapta Naraka. It's called Kalasutra, or the Black Thread Naraka. The unfortunate karmic sinners who dwell here have black lines running along their body and face, similar to how Sukuna has. These lines allow for precise cleaving and slicing. Sounds familiar?
I just thought it was the sheer speed caused a powerful friction that the finger bearer. That line of thought always got me in some sort of assumption bias. This clears up a lot of misunderstand. I'm suprised i forogt.
I've always thought the "box" was just the real name of the technique being censored. The anime seems to confirm this, since we don't get to hear him say the part that corresponds, yet we see his mouth moving.
Very real possibility but I like the whole ‘black box system’ idea nonetheless. Also the ‘fuga’ translation and soul stuff holds even without the black box I think
He’s called the King of Curses and we have reason to believe he’s done things only the curses could do with their curse techniques, idk where i was going with that
I think maki is getting fire arrowed because of her first death by Jogo it was a hint of things to come and arrow that always hits its target and doesn’t just pierce her but devour her as a whole no cursed energy needed
@@Allons-Y-04 I might I just don’t know how to start but I’ll join a podcast and throw my ideas out there and her katana has mei soul inside or her will but either way that’s weird to think of but I magazine using the sword and the transfiguration of its soul making a new weapon and it’s in the same powers of meis recreation technique but maybe she’ll be used as the spear or maybe his side kick has it but she has to die in order for him to get it like Kenny and tengan
I also thought of this theory once, but I kinda of thought that it was too broken even for Sukuna. It is basically Sukuna being able to attribute a particular property to his cursed energy , similar to cursed energy traits. He can pass his cursed energy through the brain ( the part responsible for jujutsu in general) and also manipulate it to obtain the cursed energy that he desires because overusing it prob causes brain damage. I am imagining it is similar to how reverse cursed energy is processed in the head. It also explains why he understood what Gojo was doing by healing his CT using RCT. Edit: But now that I think about it, the reason Sukuna wasnt able to emulate Mahoraga's first adaptation of altering the essence of its cursed energy, because it was something he was not able to do . Depending on how you interpret it, it means that this is not his cursed technique . I find the concept really cool so hopefully that is the case.
@@joshuaanoruo973 Yeah then I thought that there are limitations to Sukuna's ability to transmute his cursed energy that is based on real properties. But then I realized that he wouldnt be able to do the space dismantle ability. Maybe it is an extremely advanced form of sorcery which involves manipulating the part of the brain responsible for the cursed technique to change the target of the cursed technique.
Maybe he can only assign one trait to his cursed energy at a time. For example, cleave and dismantle might normally have the CE trait of being "sharp", meaning he couldn't then apply Mahoraga's CE trait to bypass infinity without losing the ability to use his cursed energy for cleave and dismantle. If he did change his trait to bypass infinity then he would just be punching Gojo with cursed energy, which he could already do with Domain Amplification anyways.
Low key separating cursed energy and cursed techniques and making it separate with out killing the person it’s a clean extraction and with ur technique gone doesn that mean u have no energy or u have what u can hold then that’s it or do u have no energy because ur technique was extracted now we have maki and toji walking all over
The basis for your theory is very well fleshed and thought out. I'm just offering some food for thought as additions to the ideas you presented. JJK over its course has heavily emphasized the importance of body, mind and spirit being directly interlinked, if not being one and the same thing (all the info revealed in arcs involving Yuji, Mahito, Tengen, Kenjaku, Sukuna, Toji etc.). The human body is a physical manifestation of the soul (and vice versa) as presented by Mahito and his ability to alter peoples souls directly. This also means by extension a persons techniques are a reflection of their body (mind) and soul. The "black box" system of the brain was a key piece of info, as the unique structure and makeup of the brain are different person to person, but also hereditary (hence the JJ sorceror clans). This means everyone will have different innate techniques, but people of similar genetics have higher chances to have the same black box and hence innate technique e.g. ten shadows, infinity etc These same rare techniques likely require a very specific black box system in the brain. Further to the black box, it also explains why Mahito can't alter his own soul directly, as he would change/lose his technique doing so, which forces an impossible paradox. Further to all of this. I believe the black box is a conduit or housing for the soul itself, or perhaps a part of it. The evidence is the same evidence you presented e.g. Sukuna visiting everyone he has killed in their "minds" or souls directly. Also everything I mentioned prior. I also believe domain expansions are a physical manifestation of the black box of the brain (which is a conduit/housing to the soul and it's innate techniques) You are expanding the domain of your soul into reality, by opening your black box conduit into the physical world by using a barrier. You literally bring out your innate techniques of the black box housing by opening and manifesting your black box conduit using cursed energy/sorcery, but the condition is to provide a housing (barrier) for said domain. The barrier acts as the box itself. This explains why domains gives sure hit, as you are literally within the inner workings of what creates your innate technique. This is why domains are the epitome of JJ. It is also why barrierless domains are akin to painting a masterpiece without a canvas, because your black box and soul don't need barriers setup as a condition to open up and extend out into reality. Your black box must be freely open by other means. Note how Sukuna has a barrierless domain here. Now onto several theories. Sukuna - his innate technique/s likely involves what you mentioned. Some form of dissimilation i.e. breaking down (dismantle and cleave for physical matter), but he is applying them insanely smartly, to more than just matter e.g. souls. He might do it indirectly by interacting with the black box or conduit/housing of the soul. This would explain many things (appearing to Jogo and other kills, directly in their black box i.e. conduit and housing to the soul). The reverse of this technique would be to assimilate i.e. building up or storing. Sukuna has learnt to break open his black box, as well as the boxes of others. He breaks open their black box, learns the working of the technique, and then builds and assimilates the techniques back into his own black box. He can learn how hereditary techniques work, but cannot store them as those require a specific black box make up i.e. brain. This explains his expert level use of ten shadows. "Fuga" might be Sukuna breaking down i.e. opening his black box, allowing him direct access to his domain holding his techniques and soul. This allows him to directly modify his cursed technique into the other forms he has assimilated or learnt. Sukunas black box or domain, malevolent shrine is also barrierless. Likely because he can freely open his black box conduit to his soul and extend it out into reality freely. He does not need a barrier to contain his domain, he just projects it directly from his open black box brain/conduit to his soul. Sukuna also broke apart his soul into the 20 fingers using his own technique. Just as an aside. Now for even more theories, and to the core of Kenjaku and Yukis commentary of purging jujutsu/cursed energy permanently. Toji and Maki - their Heavenly restrictions likely relate to some hereditary makeup of their black box in their brains. It is likely super inefficient in storing and consuming cursed energy into techniques, given Yukis commentary on Toji when talking to Kenjaku . Hence stored cursed energy is directed from the soul to the body, instead of to manifesting innate cursed techniques. This black box however is so extremely rare and also variable, Toji and Maki are the only known people like this, with "0" apparent CE. Meaning this "solution" of making everyone super inefficient at using CE is not viable at scale. Yuji - is part of Kenjakus puzzle/ alternate answer to Yukis proposal. I think Yuji was born without a soul, he is a "human" cursed object. This distinction is important to make, as he will abide by the mind, body and spirit relationship from earlier. This is why he cannot be targeted by Mahito.The soul is the housing of cursed energy for CT. It's also why he has no CT as he has no soul. I also think he is likely the opposite of a heavenly restriction. He is likely extremely efficient at storing and using CE because of all of this. He has a massive empty battery where his soul should be, and his black box os extremely efficient at using CE. However it's almost like an inverse heavenly restriction though (unholy restriction), so he was born with no technique and no abilities, but with infinite potential. Since he was exposed to housing Sukuna, who juiced him up and exposed him to CE and CT to his black box and empty soul. It is also why he was such a good cage for Sukuna and why he uses black flashes so readily and easily. Lastly, I also think Yuji is part of the solution to the merger. He will likely house all of the souls at the end of all of it. Sukuna will set off the merger using megumis body, break down and merge all the souls into Yuji, who will house them. We will likely get a super bitter ending as everyone essentially dies. Even Sukuna is overwhelmed and killed by Yuji. And Yuji is left essentially cursed to live eternally, holding all the cursed energy in the world.
I think the very first finger bearer fight could also relate to Sukuna in some fashion. The finger bearer did not have a technique it was just firing out bursts of cursed energy. Sukuna could have a similat technique which on paper would be garbage tier for most people as it is very generic, but when pushed to its utter limits we have Sukuna
this could explain that time gojo said sukunas technique would be put into yujis body as well which is why yuji has so much knowledge of the soul since he got it from sukuna being in his body
btw sukuna's domain didnt produce flames on the finger bearer that just a special fx in the anime when it gets exorcised , when megumi fights the finger bearer and beats him it also does the purple flame fx so that point is wrong
2:33 Sukuna can't transmute or change his CE properties. In chapter 236, Sukuna said, that he waited for Mahoragas second adaptation, because: "In the first one, Mahoraga was changing essence of it's own curse energy, that was something I WASN'T able to do".
im guessing sukuna's cursed technique is something related to hell and worship. His domain handsign belongs to Enma-Tenin, who is the king of hell and death in Buddism. Thats probably why he can manipulate fire. His cleave and dismantle are definitely related to worship, possibly representing sacrifice, seeing as how theyre slashing attacks. His black box might also be a place where he keeps elements related to worship or hell as well, but one thing we know FOR SURE in the manga is that the "black box" is the area where cursed techniques are stored within the brain, so we dont know the full extent of sukuna's powers yet
Don’t think people realize how good this theory is. Cause yes dismantle and cleave are his inate technique. But the idea of his changing his box system. Means he does not need o change his CE but just the box to get different input. This is further backed by how yuji has no CT. But as gojo said he would gain the ability’s of sukuna. Thus now Yuji has a soul ability that allows him to understand others CT like using blood manipulation. Which Yuji never has a Ct thus black box had an input which we know Yuji has Ce but never got an output. Now with sukuna “ability “ he can change the box system to get an output. If this is true what CTs have he learned.
Funny enough, "Malevolent Shrine", in Italian, has been translated to "Reliquiario Demoniaco", which can be translated to both "Malevolent Shrine" and also to "Weaponry of the demon(s)". If the translation directly comes from the Japanese directly to the Italian, then basically his different assimilated curse are "stored" as within the "black box" that materialize in Sukuna's Domain Expansion. This may also explain **spoiler from manga*** Why Sukuna cannot use other curse technique such as the fire arrow now: because the shrine has been crushed by Gojo during the battles of domains!
Gege said that Yuji's memory stuff isn't a curse technique. Maybe it's not a curse technique. Something no one is talking about is how both binding vows and barriers are separate from curse techniques. It's entirely probably that a vow, heavenly or otherwise, can be at work here. This implies something people are overlooking. You can have an innate domain without a curse technique, just like how you can have a curse technique without a body that can use it. Junpei had a curse technique but did not have a body that could execute it. This distinction was integral to Kenjaku's marking plan for the culling games. Yuji might not have a curse technique, and what he is currently doing and has done may not be Curse Technique related, but just straight up hands and other mechanical aptitude like barrier and binding vows and innate domains. There is a very high possibility that Yuki's soul research is related to Innate Domains.
the soul thing might be his own tchnique, and black box it's just sukuna being a genius in jujutsu, as it is for his domain, a god-like feature due to he understanding jujutsu at its core
i thought that too but the way mahoraga adapts is by transmuting his CE and sukuna said he couldn't do that so he needed maho to adapt further so he could copy the adaptation
well now we know that his technique is actually called shrine, cleave is its main technique while dismantle is a somewhat advanced application, or specific to sukuna seeing as yuji only uses/has used cleave so far. his fire arrow is called furnace, and whether the shrine is the black box or a space in his brain where his former brothers technique resides is yet to be revealed
The thing about a bloc box system is that there can be external dependencies, so perhaps Sukuna can't replicate ten shadows because perhaps Megumi is a vessel chosen for the technique, so simply mimicking Megumi isn't enough. That could be why he needed to possess Megumi specifically
One thing i am a lil confused about is if sukunas true curse technique is ct creation why are dismantle and cleave the malevolent shrine sure hit of his domain? ,we know domains are made from the innate technique of the soul unless sukuna can somehow change the abilities of his shrine to a new sure hit kinda like yutas domain being able to use one of his copied techniques as the sure hit but this would be pretty busted since he would probably be able to have a domain of fire arrows or whatever other abilities he has in the black box☠️☠️
@@Allons-Y-04 it is definitely possible that doing it is a risky thing, because it might actively involve manipulating the part of the brain used for sorcery so he maybe has to use it sparingly.
Yuta can use a Ct that he copied as a surehit , Kenjaku can use AG as the sure hit(its the Ct of a sorcerer he bodyhoped into) it would make sense that Shrines Sure hit is a Ct he created
Something i find interesting about Sukuna is that he looks a lot like an *Asura* from Buddhist beliefs, they are war themed demigods with enourmous power that inhabit one of the 6 realms of Samsara like Humans and Divas do in their respective realms, but they have 6 arms and eyes (3 heads/faces), while sukuna only has 4 arms and 4 eyes (2 faces), so this comparison makes Sukuna look like an "incomplete" Asura Funnily enough, with Mahito's final form having a resemblence to Sukuna, it kinda feels like he could be Sukuna's missing piece Or maybe it's the other way around and Sukuna has Mahito's "missing pieces" Perhaps Sukuna *_took_* a big piece of the previous incarnation Human curse spirit which once looked like an Asura in the past Maybe this could also be why Sukuna could damage Mahito's soul, bc he has a connection to it, kinda like how Nobara can damage people by damaging a piece of their bodies(?
I love the theory, but im pretty sure it was debunked in his fight with gojo. In which if i recall correctly, they explain Maharoga's ability to adapt as well transmuting his cursed energy, which sukuna then says he can't do.
So yall see Yujis arms in the fight with him, Yuta and Sukuna? I think he's changing the shape of his soul because he has Sukunas cursed technique! Sukunas slashes aren't knives specifically, but AIR! HES UNIRONICALLY THE AVATAR USING THE AIR TO CUT🤣 That's why Mahoraga was able to SEE👀 his cursed technique. So he has Fire, Air, what else?
this theory would also explain how yuji can interact with the soul, since it was stated a while back that the longer sukuna resides in yuji's body, the more likely sukuna's technique will naturally manifest. until now that has seemed like a large plot hole or forgotten plot, but if your theory is correct, that would mean that yuji did in fact obtain sukuna's technique, or at least some extension/variation of it.
here have a random crackhead theory, sukunas true cursed tech: creation he can ouput any technique using the chant to command a refined output allowing him to copy and create anything he wants. this could use massive amounts of CE so he doesnt like to spam it, with the reverse tech of course being destruction the ability to slice something into atoms effectively deleting it from existance.
I always thought the black box was an advanced inversion of Sukuna's innate technique like red and purple are to Gojo, Since he says "Oh, that's right. I thought you'd know about this, but I suppose a cursed spirit wouldn't." before using it and he is a master of RCT, which curses don't use and likely don't fully understand. "Cleave" can mean both splitting or mending (though the translation may be inexact) and anything you "dismantle" can be assembled or reassembled. This does wonders to explain why Sukuna, who can instantly kill most opponents, frequently plays around with any opponent that has the potential to show him a new application of cursed techniques or energy that he can learn from. A technique that allows you to manually "Assemble" cursed energy into a technique, not simply copy or imitate, but observe, understand, and apply in your effort to invent something far better. This also explains why he is delighted with Mahoraga, as he is the perfect subject to experiment with and learn from in any battle going forward and he needed to ditch Yuji's body for a vessel that doesn't trap him as Yuji has proven he always would. With Mahoraga as a "Blueprint"(his words) Sukuna is capable of learning and advancing like never before, watching as Mahoraga automatically CREATED a shortcut through absolutely everything, utilizing a whole new understanding of cursed energy and it's application. Sukuna is always talking about how little sorcerers and curses understand the energy they use, and is absolutely overjoyed when he realizes that Mahoraga can actually "see" and likely understand his technique. So Sukuna may be an outright Inventor or artist in the application of cursed energy and he now has the perfect test subject or muse with Mahoraga.
This makes so much sense, especially when you think about the world cutting slash, a Slash that is created by refining dismantle to the point that it cuts through space. 10/10 theory my boy
got a theory about the black box, sense its like an unknown thing what if sukuna is using his brain to make an image and just manifest it into reality therefore creating the technique like say flame arrow he could of used it before in a previous fight like say against someone in the heian era and created the technique then and is just using it now after he already created it and how much cursed energy he puts into it is how strong the technique is.
maybe the fire arrow wasn't even fire, maybe it was like yamamoto's flames which are just busted spiritual pressure that looks and works like a flame. maybe sukuna just made his cursed energy into something similar just to mock jogo. sukuna might be able to open the black box and just refine his cursed energy giving it different properties but not making new techniques or actually emulating those of others, cuz that would be too redundant with all the sorcerers that we've already got that have multiple techniques imo.
Another thing to Just refine your theory that would probably just down right make your theory really valid is that sukuna can literally look at mahoragas adaption to infinity and downright cut through the space between from sheer analyzation. It was never stated that sukuna could "adapt" his cleave and dismantle only adapt its output after a cleave or dismantle has hit but didnt do signifigant damage but if thats the case only the output should be adapted NOT gaining a trait of bypassing pockets of space unless the adaption of output has a passive trait of fuga "Refine". He had to of used the black box method and "Refine" His cleave to gojos infinity or the passive trait of the black boxc in his technique adapted. Either way, hes manipulating his soul "Well not to a degree of mahito" but manipulating his adaption to techiniques thats sukunas actual power. yes cleave and dismantle are his innate techniques but the reason why they have the properties of adaption and the fact he has a barrierless domain, it all makes sense that he has soul manipulation and also strengthens the fact he can put himself as a cursed object.
2 months later, it's hilarious how the black box theory ran rampant just to go back to the original interpretation of it's just a censor box. So many arguments over that's it was just a censor.
Gojo being born with the quality’s to be the strongest while sukuna (even tho we don’t know his history) has to refine and evolve his abilities to eventually become the strongest😮💨the duality’s in jjk always go crazy fr
I think Sukuna's Black Box is him fully refining his CT. We all know Sukuna is probably the best user of CE period, even Gojo's Six Eyes don't give you the same perfection, though better proficiency. I think the flame arrow is precisely slashing the air relentlessly with a truly mastered Cleave to set it ablaze, then unleashing it as it's own ability. Sukuna seals this beneath the Black Box through a Binding Vow, as always maintaining that level of precision would decimate his brain with the amount of focus it requires and he doesn't have the Six Eyes like Gojo to compensate for that. So, Sukuna seals it beneath a chant and a Binding Vow to empower it and allow himself access to the ability without harming himself. That's what I think anyways
Very great idea , fits someone like sukuna who keeps talking about how jujutsu is something to understand how it functions , and not just spam attacks u were born with at ur opponent
I love the theory, it’s very well put together. My theory is the black box is a compartment in his demonic feretory. And the feretory is built like a Buddhist stupa. The stupa representing the 5 elements and the mastery over them which leads to enlightenment. I also thought sukunas soul was stored away in a similar compartment in the feretory, making him essentially immortal. Kinda like Voldemort did in Harry Potter 🤷🏽♂️
My guess is assimilating cursed tools, and cursed techniques that can be held as weapons. Like a bow, or executioner's sword. He seems more interested in weapons than he does techniques. During higuruma trial, he says he coukdnt care less about what hes done, he just wants to see the sword. The girls with phone, he picks it up and realises its just part of her technique, gets disappointed, scoffs and crushes it. Would make sense if box is just a shrine that literally holds weapons.
This assumes dismantle and cleave were the literal knives in the drawing, and that he can hold so many weapons 'on hand' and others get stored. 4 weapons with 4 arms, 2 weapons with 2 arms
Melting the ice block Uraume brought is possibly the biggest thing I can think of to go against this, but maybe he was just holding fire effect with one of his hands, and only has to go through bow process to make it significantly stronger,
nuh uh, there's a ton of things wrong here 1. the black box isn't literal, it's just a censor for something sukuna says before fuga 2. 開 (fuga) just means "open" 3. historical sukuna has two swords and a bow&arrow, implying that jjk sukuna only has dismantle, cleave, and the fire bow and extensions of those like world-cutting slash 4. finger bearer doesn't turn into fire in the manga and kinda just poofs away the sukuna weird soul communication is something i didn't properly notice though nice pointing that out also even though i completely disagree with your theory, with sukuna's technique being called 御厨子 (shrine/kitchen) by yorozu, and with the "shrine" definition specifically meaning a buddhist shrine where sacred items are stored, you could say that it's a reference to sukuna storing cursed techniques
To support your theory more, you have to remember what happened with Kenjaku. His ability to swap bodies was an innate/self-made technique, and yet Sukuna was the "only other person to do it on their own." This means that Sukuna made himself a cursed object separate from Kenjaku's work, which is probably how he ended splitting himself apart.
Hear me out. Maybe’s Sukuna’s technique is called “Shrine” …. Definition : “a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction. A shrine can also be a place that is honored because of some connection with a famous person or event.” Sukuna is titled as the king of curses. Angel referred to him as the fallen one. What if his technique is that of a god and so he was supposed to perform certain duties within the realm of jujutsu; however he decided to do things his own way. His technique allows himself to act as a temple that people can worship, pray to, and offer gifts (techniques, weapons, cursed energy, soul/body and binding vows)… this is why sukuna is able to understand any and every phenomenon because he’s been offered so much and has seen a wide range of techniques during the times people offered him their gifts…. When sukuna summons his DE, you see a shrine with mouths and it’s surrounded by corpses which most likely symbolises all those who have offered to be sacrificed by sukuna thinking they’d be rewarded by a king/ godly being but have only died and became apart of sukuna.
This is one of the most logically thought out JJK theories I've ever heard. The fact that his domain expansion technique is not in an enclosed space like everyone else, is a testament to how long he has been continuously adapting/evolving his power.
Don't know if this would be a curse techniques but I think it possible sukuna can gain curse energy through eating curse spirits and humans this ability may not even be unique to him considering it has been shown curse spirits eating sukunas remains gives them a emense amount of curse energy his finger specifically where he constrainted most of it you might think him gaining the curse energy. It would also explain why sukuna was so unconcerned about letting yuji die I mean early on maybe but after the choso fight that was 20% of his strength given up because he's petty but if all it take for him to gain more curse energy is eating people he could regain his strength from only having 1 finger relatively quickly. It would also explain why he has such an insane amount of curse energy its all the energy gained from every person and curse he ate. For the box techniques I feel like the box if most likely just a way to store techniques the same way yuta uses Rika as a hardrive to store techniques sukuna can store them in his inate domain or box and withdraw them when needed.
Hey I have some thoughts on this that I’d like to expound upon mainly that Cursed techniques are all derived from a base technique. Over the centuries Jujutsu sorcerers have “refined” these techniques via binding vows. Take blood manipulation for example. Keshizu had a limitation on his ability to freely manipulate blood but in return his blood became insanely corrosive. The more basic a technique is the more inefficient it is in terms of cursed energy but simultaneously more versatile and potentially powerful in the hands of a truly talented sorcerer.
For example creation is an incredibly basic technique. You can create anything but it is an incredibly inefficient technique. But if you made a binding vow to limit your cursed technique “creation” to a certain object. Say bullets, the efficiency in which you can create bullets becomes exceptionally greater. This ritual would bind the changes to the sorcerers basic technique to their innate domain which is passed on in the cycle of reincarnation.
4 times Sukuna saw a powerful curse technique and learned it's principle to use it in his own way (not copy) - 1 Seeing kenjaku using dead painting 2 seeing jogo using the fire element 3 seeing Gojo using RCT to heal curse technique 4 Seeing Mahoraga's slash and developing his space slash
Reincarnated sorcerers can change their morphology back to their original forms. I remember gege mentioning how yorozo already changed her face and body back to how it was 1000 years ago, it's something reincarnated sorcerers are capable in doing.
Looking at his nickname the King of Curses, it could be as simple as that. He has his inherent techniques but Fuga (elegance, grace) could be almost like a king's domain where being the king of curses hes allowed to open cursed energy to copy other curses techniques. Fuga can also mean "good taste" which is another play on words dealing with food which sukuna as we know is a chef.
The fire he used in shibuya is the cursed weapon “hiten” he used in the heian era. He throws up 3 fingers when using it, hiten is a trident. He is able to seal the cursed technique of it.
I think his CT is based around cooking. even his DE was called Malevolent Kitchen and it would make sense as he is a cannibal. He cooks with fire and prepares with cleave and slash. He also carrys around Uraume as a freezer of sort.
@@jordanmorris5194from what we seen has has to chant open to use fire arrow so no way can that be his innate techinque especially when his domain is to do with slashes.
i think the blck box is like a neural network, the neural network tries to adjust its weights, based on its inputs to generate specific output, a kind of refinement or fine tunning , and mahoraga powers also works in a similar way
I still think that it has something to do with Cooking/Chef. GeGe loves to use Budhisum in this writing, and if you look at kitchens and food and how it is important to the religion, it seems like "refine" and stuff is something that can work with this.
this by far makes the best sense. He would then want Mahoraga as an extension, a way to get the blueprints easier. If this is the case, Yuta is playing a bad hand, Copy is too broken with a master sorcerer
the flames on the fingerer are just an effect of the fingers getting taken from them and them dying since the same happened when Megumi later killed a fingerer
But in chapter 236 he literally stated that he could not apply mahoraga 's first adaptation of limitless to his dismantles because he can not change the essence of his own cursed energy and maho's first adaptation was doing that exactly. So how can you say he can transmute the cursed energy to give it different properties ?? Explain please ?
@@Allons-Y-04 different how transmutation is changing of essence and he literally said he cannot change essense of his cursed energy and if that so he already would have Bypassed infinity without the help of mahoraga. But i have a much better theory regarding his open ability if you want i can tell you here.
@@sawanpancholi7366 Mahoraga used adaptation to not register infinity for the first time which sukuna couldn't do. As it was mahoragas technique. Then mahoraga actually upgraded his slash to cut the infinity which sukuna was able to copy. It's literally stated dude.
That’s actually really cool theory. The only question I have revolves around Yuta’s curse technique, since I always thought he copies another person’s curse technique, rather than its applications and attacks, but when he copies Sukuna’s technique, he only copies cleave. Perhaps he doesn’t know any other way it can be used, so he used regular cleave, or Sukuna’s curse technique is really just cleave and dismantle, which would be kind of unsatisfying resolution to all the build up. Kinda want to be proven wrong about it
Gojo explains the difference between innate and learnt techniques, Fuga is only a chant sukuna uses, manipulating your own techniques and interacting with souls are all things anyone can do they just figure it out. Megumi beat the finger bearer by broadening his own interpretation of his technique thats what sorcery is its why sukuna was grinning after he did that. Yuji interacts with the soul as a learnt technique from his experience as a vessel and yuki tsukumo's research, not as an innate output of the brain but a learnt application of sorcery there's a canonically distinct difference.
I been theorized something like this years ago when we first saw it. It makes sense because sukuna is the only person who knows what a curse actually is and the cursed realm, hes enlightened (the dark buddha). Initially i thought he was able to pull into the cursed realm but no he can create techniques to an extent, its similar to FMA where you look into the truth portal and now you can transmute without a circle. And think about it, sukuna has the best technique in the series because its almost invulnerable and a counter to all fighting styles and techniques. No cursed energy? Destroy all inanimate objects. Powerful Opponent? Charge a cleave. Domain Users? I have the most refined domain without the use of a barrier, next. Sukuna can change the properties of CE but not through adaptation, more like experience.
heres my take on the blackbox technique, blackbox by definition means that using something but doesn't know how it works on the inside, mfor example you use an equpment and it just gets the job done without knowing the mechanisms inside the equipment, similar to sukunas blackbox where he uses a technique without really knowing how it worked and as all people who watched quite any fiction it is called plot armor, this is Gege's way of giving Sukuna the plot armor, and I 100% guarantee we will not get any explanation of the technique as it removes the essence of the black box
Yuta ate his finger and got cleave/dismantle that pretty much confirms his technique. Each sword contains a copied technique it wouldn't make sense for the swords to store one specific application of a technique.
My theory on sukunas technique is that his technique is dismantle/cleave and he’s just so smart with jujutsu that he can copy curse energy traits for example kashimo curse energy is like lightning i think sukuna is smart enough to copy that
Black box was him opening yugis technique, sukuna said it comes from the body and during the time we don’t know yujis techniques yet and he was still in that body
I earlier thought that Sukuna could control the 'entropy' or the randomness around him using slashes, but this theory articulates my thoughts perfectly. Great video!
I've been hearingbpeople say that sukuna may have had a twin brother in the past, although it's uncomfirmed i was thinking perhaps he could access the soul after being cursed by this supposed brother, who he absorbed in the womb, merging their souls allowing him more extreme power
not a fully fleshed out idea but i feel like sukuna had to do something to sit on the boundary between cursed spirit/ human.. which gave him the best of both. Maybe through the fact he was so feared throughout the world.. which ge harnessed. or maybe he found a way to exploit, the phenomenon where cursed users turn into cursed spirits when they die
Legit the ONLY issue i have with this theory is the fact that sukuna himself admited that he cant change the "essence" or the trait of his own cursed energy. Chapter 236 is where I'm getting this from btw where he describes how he couldnt mimic mahoraga's initial adaptation to infinity.
Refinement could also mean sukuna taking another cursed technique and amplifying it greatly, therefore “refinement”. (Pretty sure it doesn’t work like that but it’s 2 am and I’m tired)
change the curse energy properties sound the best for me, it's already established with hakari and kashimo that elemental like curse energy exist. sukuna can make his curse energy sharp, hot and electrified maybe, just one at a time.
Realistically there are so many options of what it could be. I think the only common factor is the theme of the soul between Sukuna and Yuji. I think in the ends that’s all that will matter
I assume his technique is the same old cleave and shrine, but he is using a certain martial art compared to new shadow style. This would explain why he uses hollow wicker basket and definitely brings in more attention to characters like kusakabe or miwa if their art had a unknown move.
I made a mistake when I say Sukuna caused the finger bearer to burst into flames. It was just the exorcism effect lol
I read this as soon as I got done making a comment explaining it 🤦♂
was about to comment that lol
Its exactly my teory. That he learned the truth about jujutsu that its magic and you can turn your cursed energy in oter sh it beyond youre natural born technique.
Nice Correction
the biggest piece of evidence you missed was mahoraga slashing gojos arm since as far as we know his adaptations besides gaining invulnerability to a technique is differently manipulating cursed energy to provide a different result !
I feel like the tattoos mean a lot actually. The tattoos are known to be markers of criminals in ancient japan. However, if they were ordinary tattoos, they wouldn’t appear 1000 years later when sukuna is in another body. This would imply the tattoos were imprinted onto his soul rather than just his own physical body
Oh damn I like that idea a lot. Yeah having them engraved in his soul actually makes a lot of sense.
@@Allons-Y-04 it's actually connected to the Buddhist hell. Specifically the 2nd level of Hot Hell, or Tapta Naraka. It's called Kalasutra, or the Black Thread Naraka. The unfortunate karmic sinners who dwell here have black lines running along their body and face, similar to how Sukuna has. These lines allow for precise cleaving and slicing. Sounds familiar?
Don't quote me but I've heard that the black markings are only for the viewers/readers and cannot be seen by characters in the story
@@jeremiahjohnson4612 never heard that until now
Bet even gege didn't think of it but nice one
The flames is just when the finger bearer dies because when megumi kills it, it also burns
Yup realised that after, mb
I just thought it was the sheer speed caused a powerful friction that the finger bearer. That line of thought always got me in some sort of assumption bias. This clears up a lot of misunderstand. I'm suprised i forogt.
I've always thought the "box" was just the real name of the technique being censored. The anime seems to confirm this, since we don't get to hear him say the part that corresponds, yet we see his mouth moving.
The real name of his CT is shrine 😊
Very real possibility but I like the whole ‘black box system’ idea nonetheless. Also the ‘fuga’ translation and soul stuff holds even without the black box I think
@@D_I_T_O_ What do you base this claim on?
@@Stephanthecuteblondie2567 "The source is that I made it the f|_|ck up"
@@Stephanthecuteblondie2567 it's in the manga
He’s called the King of Curses and we have reason to believe he’s done things only the curses could do with their curse techniques, idk where i was going with that
Though fuga is something cursed spirits specifically wouldn't know about
@@Optclzr True but since it’s fire Jogo could probably do the same
Wdym? He's not a curse if that's what you meant, he's a cursed object
He is a human an evolved human
@@Crossbones-TS he didnt say that he is a curse ...
As a sukuna fan and glazer I appreciate the 11minutes of edgable content☺
You are very welcome lmao
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I think maki is getting fire arrowed because of her first death by Jogo it was a hint of things to come and arrow that always hits its target and doesn’t just pierce her but devour her as a whole no cursed energy needed
Bro make a youtube channel or smth cus all your suggestions so far are rly good XD
It would also also parallel toji dieing to hollow purple which he was not expecting
And maki dieing to fire Arrow with she would be not expecting
@@nirbanjyotidas5828i tbink she would be expecting it.
@@nirbanjyotidas5828why would she not expect it what
@@Allons-Y-04 I might I just don’t know how to start but I’ll join a podcast and throw my ideas out there and her katana has mei soul inside or her will but either way that’s weird to think of but I magazine using the sword and the transfiguration of its soul making a new weapon and it’s in the same powers of meis recreation technique but maybe she’ll be used as the spear or maybe his side kick has it but she has to die in order for him to get it like Kenny and tengan
I also thought of this theory once, but I kinda of thought that it was too broken even for Sukuna. It is basically Sukuna being able to attribute a particular property to his cursed energy , similar to cursed energy traits.
He can pass his cursed energy through the brain ( the part responsible for jujutsu in general) and also manipulate it to obtain the cursed energy that he desires because overusing it prob causes brain damage.
I am imagining it is similar to how reverse cursed energy is processed in the head. It also explains why he understood what Gojo was doing by healing his CT using RCT.
Edit:
But now that I think about it, the reason Sukuna wasnt able to emulate Mahoraga's first adaptation of altering the essence of its cursed energy, because it was something he was not able to do . Depending on how you interpret it, it means that this is not his cursed technique .
I find the concept really cool so hopefully that is the case.
Yh, him needing a second adaptation from Mahoraga is the reason why I don't think this is actually his technique
@@joshuaanoruo973 Yeah then I thought that there are limitations to Sukuna's ability to transmute his cursed energy that is based on real properties.
But then I realized that he wouldnt be able to do the space dismantle ability.
Maybe it is an extremely advanced form of sorcery which involves manipulating the part of the brain responsible for the cursed technique to change the target of the cursed technique.
Maybe he can only assign one trait to his cursed energy at a time. For example, cleave and dismantle might normally have the CE trait of being "sharp", meaning he couldn't then apply Mahoraga's CE trait to bypass infinity without losing the ability to use his cursed energy for cleave and dismantle. If he did change his trait to bypass infinity then he would just be punching Gojo with cursed energy, which he could already do with Domain Amplification anyways.
Low key separating cursed energy and cursed techniques and making it separate with out killing the person it’s a clean extraction and with ur technique gone doesn that mean u have no energy or u have what u can hold then that’s it or do u have no energy because ur technique was extracted now we have maki and toji walking all over
There was always something suspicious about that shrine
Do you mean Kitchen? He has no refrigerator there, that's why he likes Uraume so much.
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The basis for your theory is very well fleshed and thought out.
I'm just offering some food for thought as additions to the ideas you presented.
JJK over its course has heavily emphasized the importance of body, mind and spirit being directly interlinked, if not being one and the same thing (all the info revealed in arcs involving Yuji, Mahito, Tengen, Kenjaku, Sukuna, Toji etc.). The human body is a physical manifestation of the soul (and vice versa) as presented by Mahito and his ability to alter peoples souls directly. This also means by extension a persons techniques are a reflection of their body (mind) and soul. The "black box" system of the brain was a key piece of info, as the unique structure and makeup of the brain are different person to person, but also hereditary (hence the JJ sorceror clans). This means everyone will have different innate techniques, but people of similar genetics have higher chances to have the same black box and hence innate technique e.g. ten shadows, infinity etc These same rare techniques likely require a very specific black box system in the brain.
Further to the black box, it also explains why Mahito can't alter his own soul directly, as he would change/lose his technique doing so, which forces an impossible paradox.
Further to all of this. I believe the black box is a conduit or housing for the soul itself, or perhaps a part of it. The evidence is the same evidence you presented e.g. Sukuna visiting everyone he has killed in their "minds" or souls directly. Also everything I mentioned prior.
I also believe domain expansions are a physical manifestation of the black box of the brain (which is a conduit/housing to the soul and it's innate techniques) You are expanding the domain of your soul into reality, by opening your black box conduit into the physical world by using a barrier. You literally bring out your innate techniques of the black box housing by opening and manifesting your black box conduit using cursed energy/sorcery, but the condition is to provide a housing (barrier) for said domain. The barrier acts as the box itself. This explains why domains gives sure hit, as you are literally within the inner workings of what creates your innate technique. This is why domains are the epitome of JJ. It is also why barrierless domains are akin to painting a masterpiece without a canvas, because your black box and soul don't need barriers setup as a condition to open up and extend out into reality. Your black box must be freely open by other means. Note how Sukuna has a barrierless domain here.
Now onto several theories.
Sukuna - his innate technique/s likely involves what you mentioned.
Some form of dissimilation i.e. breaking down (dismantle and cleave for physical matter), but he is applying them insanely smartly, to more than just matter e.g. souls. He might do it indirectly by interacting with the black box or conduit/housing of the soul. This would explain many things (appearing to Jogo and other kills, directly in their black box i.e. conduit and housing to the soul). The reverse of this technique would be to assimilate i.e. building up or storing. Sukuna has learnt to break open his black box, as well as the boxes of others. He breaks open their black box, learns the working of the technique, and then builds and assimilates the techniques back into his own black box. He can learn
how hereditary techniques work, but cannot store them as those require a specific black box make up i.e. brain. This explains his expert level use of ten shadows.
"Fuga" might be Sukuna breaking down i.e. opening his black box, allowing him direct access to his domain holding his techniques and soul. This allows him to directly modify his cursed technique into the other forms he has assimilated or learnt.
Sukunas black box or domain, malevolent shrine is also barrierless. Likely because he can freely open his black box conduit to his soul and extend it out into reality freely. He does not need a barrier to contain his domain, he just projects it directly from his open black box brain/conduit to his soul.
Sukuna also broke apart his soul into the 20 fingers using his own technique. Just as an aside.
Now for even more theories, and to the core of Kenjaku and Yukis commentary of purging jujutsu/cursed energy permanently.
Toji and Maki - their
Heavenly restrictions likely relate to some hereditary makeup of their black box in their brains. It is likely super inefficient in storing and consuming cursed energy into techniques, given Yukis commentary on Toji when talking to Kenjaku . Hence stored cursed energy is directed from the soul to the body, instead of to manifesting innate cursed techniques. This black box however is so extremely rare and also variable, Toji and Maki are the only known people like this, with "0" apparent CE. Meaning this "solution" of making everyone super inefficient at using CE is not viable at scale.
Yuji - is part of Kenjakus puzzle/ alternate answer to Yukis proposal. I think Yuji was born without a soul, he is a "human" cursed object. This distinction is important to make, as he will abide by the mind, body and spirit relationship from earlier. This is why he cannot be targeted by Mahito.The soul is the housing of cursed energy for CT. It's also why he has no CT as he has no soul. I also think he is likely the opposite of a heavenly restriction. He is likely extremely efficient at storing and using CE because of all of this. He has a massive empty battery where his soul should be, and his black box os extremely efficient at using CE. However it's almost like an inverse heavenly restriction though (unholy restriction), so he was born with no technique and no abilities, but with infinite potential. Since he was exposed to housing Sukuna, who juiced him up and exposed him to CE and CT to his black box and empty soul. It is also why he was such a good cage for Sukuna and why he uses black flashes so readily and easily.
Lastly, I also think Yuji is part of the solution to the merger. He will likely house all of the souls at the end of all of it. Sukuna will set off the merger using megumis body, break down and merge all the souls into Yuji, who will house them. We will likely get a super bitter ending as everyone essentially dies. Even Sukuna is overwhelmed and killed by Yuji. And Yuji is left essentially cursed to live eternally, holding all the cursed energy in the world.
Too lazy to read all that but it’s probably solid.
woah
I think the very first finger bearer fight could also relate to Sukuna in some fashion. The finger bearer did not have a technique it was just firing out bursts of cursed energy. Sukuna could have a similat technique which on paper would be garbage tier for most people as it is very generic, but when pushed to its utter limits we have Sukuna
Unlike jogo and kashimo gojo wasn't dead he was hallucinating we saw him smile when sukuna spoke to him
I think I agree
toji died to hollow purple with he was not expecting
And maki die to fire Arrow which she also be not expecting will be a great parallel
So we gonna have donut and now hot n ready pizza⁉️
that would be the second time she got burned
Sucks cause toji could've still won that fight had he did expect it
Maki getting hit by a fire arrow would be crazy ngl
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the fire when the cursed spirit died is just the curse dying, if you look at other curses being killed you see them burn away altough not as violently
this could explain that time gojo said sukunas technique would be put into yujis body as well which is why yuji has so much knowledge of the soul since he got it from sukuna being in his body
Thats the next video dont u worry lmao
@@Allons-Y-04 "Your next video will be about sukunas technique being part of yuji!" -Joseph Joestar
Actually he got that knowledge from that book about the soul that big bro choso gave him....
btw sukuna's domain didnt produce flames on the finger bearer that just a special fx in the anime when it gets exorcised , when megumi fights the finger bearer and beats him it also does the purple flame fx so that point is wrong
Yup I read some other comments and realised that so mb u can ignore that
2:33 Sukuna can't transmute or change his CE properties. In chapter 236, Sukuna said, that he waited for Mahoragas second adaptation, because:
"In the first one, Mahoraga was changing essence of it's own curse energy, that was something I WASN'T able to do".
im guessing sukuna's cursed technique is something related to hell and worship. His domain handsign belongs to Enma-Tenin, who is the king of hell and death in Buddism. Thats probably why he can manipulate fire. His cleave and dismantle are definitely related to worship, possibly representing sacrifice, seeing as how theyre slashing attacks.
His black box might also be a place where he keeps elements related to worship or hell as well, but one thing we know FOR SURE in the manga is that the "black box" is the area where cursed techniques are stored within the brain, so we dont know the full extent of sukuna's powers yet
Don’t think people realize how good this theory is. Cause yes dismantle and cleave are his inate technique. But the idea of his changing his box system. Means he does not need o change his CE but just the box to get different input. This is further backed by how yuji has no CT. But as gojo said he would gain the ability’s of sukuna. Thus now Yuji has a soul ability that allows him to understand others CT like using blood manipulation. Which Yuji never has a Ct thus black box had an input which we know Yuji has Ce but never got an output. Now with sukuna “ability “ he can change the box system to get an output. If this is true what CTs have he learned.
Exactly!
Prettt good theory but We only seen fire arrow, so we don't really know the extent of "black box" and if other ct/elements are there
Funny enough, "Malevolent Shrine", in Italian, has been translated to "Reliquiario Demoniaco", which can be translated to both "Malevolent Shrine" and also to "Weaponry of the demon(s)". If the translation directly comes from the Japanese directly to the Italian, then basically his different assimilated curse are "stored" as within the "black box" that materialize in Sukuna's Domain Expansion. This may also explain **spoiler from manga***
Why Sukuna cannot use other curse technique such as the fire arrow now: because the shrine has been crushed by Gojo during the battles of domains!
Gege said that Yuji's memory stuff isn't a curse technique. Maybe it's not a curse technique. Something no one is talking about is how both binding vows and barriers are separate from curse techniques. It's entirely probably that a vow, heavenly or otherwise, can be at work here.
This implies something people are overlooking. You can have an innate domain without a curse technique, just like how you can have a curse technique without a body that can use it. Junpei had a curse technique but did not have a body that could execute it. This distinction was integral to Kenjaku's marking plan for the culling games.
Yuji might not have a curse technique, and what he is currently doing and has done may not be Curse Technique related, but just straight up hands and other mechanical aptitude like barrier and binding vows and innate domains. There is a very high possibility that Yuki's soul research is related to Innate Domains.
wait so thats why the fire is shaped like an arrow because its the output
"gojo has a weakness for boxes" is the funniest line i have heard😂
Megumi vs the finger bearer also ended with a somewhat flame looking like thing when it died
the soul thing might be his own tchnique, and black box it's just sukuna being a genius in jujutsu, as it is for his domain, a god-like feature due to he understanding jujutsu at its core
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i thought that too but the way mahoraga adapts is by transmuting his CE and sukuna said he couldn't do that so he needed maho to adapt further so he could copy the adaptation
well now we know that his technique is actually called shrine, cleave is its main technique while dismantle is a somewhat advanced application, or specific to sukuna seeing as yuji only uses/has used cleave so far. his fire arrow is called furnace, and whether the shrine is the black box or a space in his brain where his former brothers technique resides is yet to be revealed
The thing about a bloc box system is that there can be external dependencies, so perhaps Sukuna can't replicate ten shadows because perhaps Megumi is a vessel chosen for the technique, so simply mimicking Megumi isn't enough. That could be why he needed to possess Megumi specifically
Take a close look at the fingers when Jogo fed them to Yuji. They all have a unique look, and seem to correspond to different elements or techniques
One thing i am a lil confused about is if sukunas true curse technique is ct creation why are dismantle and cleave the malevolent shrine sure hit of his domain? ,we know domains are made from the innate technique of the soul unless sukuna can somehow change the abilities of his shrine to a new sure hit kinda like yutas domain being able to use one of his copied techniques as the sure hit but this would be pretty busted since he would probably be able to have a domain of fire arrows or whatever other abilities he has in the black box☠️☠️
Yeah I'm not sure either tbh
@@Allons-Y-04 it is definitely possible that doing it is a risky thing, because it might actively involve manipulating the part of the brain used for sorcery so he maybe has to use it sparingly.
Yuta can use a Ct that he copied as a surehit , Kenjaku can use AG as the sure hit(its the Ct of a sorcerer he bodyhoped into) it would make sense that Shrines Sure hit is a Ct he created
I'VE HAD A THEORY LIKE THIS FOR MONTHS!!!!!(except for the Uraume part)
Something i find interesting about Sukuna is that he looks a lot like an *Asura* from Buddhist beliefs, they are war themed demigods with enourmous power that inhabit one of the 6 realms of Samsara like Humans and Divas do in their respective realms, but they have 6 arms and eyes (3 heads/faces), while sukuna only has 4 arms and 4 eyes (2 faces), so this comparison makes Sukuna look like an "incomplete" Asura
Funnily enough, with Mahito's final form having a resemblence to Sukuna, it kinda feels like he could be Sukuna's missing piece
Or maybe it's the other way around and Sukuna has Mahito's "missing pieces"
Perhaps Sukuna *_took_* a big piece of the previous incarnation Human curse spirit which once looked like an Asura in the past
Maybe this could also be why Sukuna could damage Mahito's soul, bc he has a connection to it, kinda like how Nobara can damage people by damaging a piece of their bodies(?
6:03 incorrect. the finger bearer curse just erupts into colorful flames when it dies. when megumi killed one it did the same thing.
I love the theory, but im pretty sure it was debunked in his fight with gojo. In which if i recall correctly, they explain Maharoga's ability to adapt as well transmuting his cursed energy, which sukuna then says he can't do.
So yall see Yujis arms in the fight with him, Yuta and Sukuna? I think he's changing the shape of his soul because he has Sukunas cursed technique! Sukunas slashes aren't knives specifically, but AIR! HES UNIRONICALLY THE AVATAR USING THE AIR TO CUT🤣
That's why Mahoraga was able to SEE👀 his cursed technique. So he has Fire, Air, what else?
this theory would also explain how yuji can interact with the soul, since it was stated a while back that the longer sukuna resides in yuji's body, the more likely sukuna's technique will naturally manifest. until now that has seemed like a large plot hole or forgotten plot, but if your theory is correct, that would mean that yuji did in fact obtain sukuna's technique, or at least some extension/variation of it.
here have a random crackhead theory, sukunas true cursed tech: creation he can ouput any technique using the chant to command a refined output allowing him to copy and create anything he wants. this could use massive amounts of CE so he doesnt like to spam it, with the reverse tech of course being destruction the ability to slice something into atoms effectively deleting it from existance.
that image of sukuna that u chose for this video feels like he is staring into my soul😅😂
I always thought the black box was an advanced inversion of Sukuna's innate technique like red and purple are to Gojo, Since he says "Oh, that's right. I thought you'd know about this, but I suppose a cursed spirit wouldn't." before using it and he is a master of RCT, which curses don't use and likely don't fully understand.
"Cleave" can mean both splitting or mending (though the translation may be inexact) and anything you "dismantle" can be assembled or reassembled. This does wonders to explain why Sukuna, who can instantly kill most opponents, frequently plays around with any opponent that has the potential to show him a new application of cursed techniques or energy that he can learn from. A technique that allows you to manually "Assemble" cursed energy into a technique, not simply copy or imitate, but observe, understand, and apply in your effort to invent something far better.
This also explains why he is delighted with Mahoraga, as he is the perfect subject to experiment with and learn from in any battle going forward and he needed to ditch Yuji's body for a vessel that doesn't trap him as Yuji has proven he always would.
With Mahoraga as a "Blueprint"(his words) Sukuna is capable of learning and advancing like never before, watching as Mahoraga automatically CREATED a shortcut through absolutely everything, utilizing a whole new understanding of cursed energy and it's application. Sukuna is always talking about how little sorcerers and curses understand the energy they use, and is absolutely overjoyed when he realizes that Mahoraga can actually "see" and likely understand his technique.
So Sukuna may be an outright Inventor or artist in the application of cursed energy and he now has the perfect test subject or muse with Mahoraga.
This is why we see Sukuna inside Jogo’s soul. It wasn’t meant to be sentimental at all; it was directly showing us his technique. 😳
This makes so much sense, especially when you think about the world cutting slash, a Slash that is created by refining dismantle to the point that it cuts through space. 10/10 theory my boy
got a theory about the black box, sense its like an unknown thing what if sukuna is using his brain to make an image and just manifest it into reality therefore creating the technique like say flame arrow he could of used it before in a previous fight like say against someone in the heian era and created the technique then and is just using it now after he already created it and how much cursed energy he puts into it is how strong the technique is.
maybe the fire arrow wasn't even fire, maybe it was like yamamoto's flames which are just busted spiritual pressure that looks and works like a flame. maybe sukuna just made his cursed energy into something similar just to mock jogo. sukuna might be able to open the black box and just refine his cursed energy giving it different properties but not making new techniques or actually emulating those of others, cuz that would be too redundant with all the sorcerers that we've already got that have multiple techniques imo.
Another thing to Just refine your theory that would probably just down right make your theory really valid is that sukuna can literally look at mahoragas adaption to infinity and downright cut through the space between from sheer analyzation. It was never stated that sukuna could "adapt" his cleave and dismantle only adapt its output after a cleave or dismantle has hit but didnt do signifigant damage but if thats the case only the output should be adapted NOT gaining a trait of bypassing pockets of space unless the adaption of output has a passive trait of fuga "Refine". He had to of used the black box method and "Refine" His cleave to gojos infinity or the passive trait of the black boxc in his technique adapted. Either way, hes manipulating his soul "Well not to a degree of mahito" but manipulating his adaption to techiniques thats sukunas actual power. yes cleave and dismantle are his innate techniques but the reason why they have the properties of adaption and the fact he has a barrierless domain, it all makes sense that he has soul manipulation and also strengthens the fact he can put himself as a cursed object.
This is what the jjk community goes through every time there’s a chapter delay
The piercing blood max elephant water shit he did against Gojo also fits perfectly into this tbh hmmm 🤔
4:41 I was litteraly falling asleep and you woke me up🤣💀💀
2 months later, it's hilarious how the black box theory ran rampant just to go back to the original interpretation of it's just a censor box.
So many arguments over that's it was just a censor.
Tbh tho I prefer this to what we got :(
@@Allons-Y-04 me too, dumbest hype on geges part. Hype is meant to introduce something cool.
Gojo being born with the quality’s to be the strongest while sukuna (even tho we don’t know his history) has to refine and evolve his abilities to eventually become the strongest😮💨the duality’s in jjk always go crazy fr
I think Sukuna's Black Box is him fully refining his CT. We all know Sukuna is probably the best user of CE period, even Gojo's Six Eyes don't give you the same perfection, though better proficiency. I think the flame arrow is precisely slashing the air relentlessly with a truly mastered Cleave to set it ablaze, then unleashing it as it's own ability. Sukuna seals this beneath the Black Box through a Binding Vow, as always maintaining that level of precision would decimate his brain with the amount of focus it requires and he doesn't have the Six Eyes like Gojo to compensate for that. So, Sukuna seals it beneath a chant and a Binding Vow to empower it and allow himself access to the ability without harming himself. That's what I think anyways
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Very great idea , fits someone like sukuna who keeps talking about how jujutsu is something to understand how it functions , and not just spam attacks u were born with at ur opponent
I love the theory, it’s very well put together. My theory is the black box is a compartment in his demonic feretory. And the feretory is built like a Buddhist stupa. The stupa representing the 5 elements and the mastery over them which leads to enlightenment. I also thought sukunas soul was stored away in a similar compartment in the feretory, making him essentially immortal. Kinda like Voldemort did in Harry Potter 🤷🏽♂️
My guess is assimilating cursed tools, and cursed techniques that can be held as weapons. Like a bow, or executioner's sword.
He seems more interested in weapons than he does techniques.
During higuruma trial, he says he coukdnt care less about what hes done, he just wants to see the sword.
The girls with phone, he picks it up and realises its just part of her technique, gets disappointed, scoffs and crushes it.
Would make sense if box is just a shrine that literally holds weapons.
This assumes dismantle and cleave were the literal knives in the drawing, and that he can hold so many weapons 'on hand' and others get stored.
4 weapons with 4 arms, 2 weapons with 2 arms
Melting the ice block Uraume brought is possibly the biggest thing I can think of to go against this, but maybe he was just holding fire effect with one of his hands, and only has to go through bow process to make it significantly stronger,
nuh uh, there's a ton of things wrong here
1. the black box isn't literal, it's just a censor for something sukuna says before fuga
2. 開 (fuga) just means "open"
3. historical sukuna has two swords and a bow&arrow, implying that jjk sukuna only has dismantle, cleave, and the fire bow and extensions of those like world-cutting slash
4. finger bearer doesn't turn into fire in the manga and kinda just poofs away
the sukuna weird soul communication is something i didn't properly notice though nice pointing that out
also even though i completely disagree with your theory, with sukuna's technique being called 御厨子 (shrine/kitchen) by yorozu, and with the "shrine" definition specifically meaning a buddhist shrine where sacred items are stored, you could say that it's a reference to sukuna storing cursed techniques
Nuh uh (you could be right who knows lol)
bro chill, gege is gonna find this video and use this as reference to make him so strong he's unrivaled
Finger bearer himself had some kind of Flame Technique a orange aura and he uses it like Sukuna
6:15 when fushiguro killed same finger bearer he also had purple flames
To support your theory more, you have to remember what happened with Kenjaku. His ability to swap bodies was an innate/self-made technique, and yet Sukuna was the "only other person to do it on their own." This means that Sukuna made himself a cursed object separate from Kenjaku's work, which is probably how he ended splitting himself apart.
Hear me out. Maybe’s Sukuna’s technique is called “Shrine” …. Definition : “a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction. A shrine can also be a place that is honored because of some connection with a famous person or event.” Sukuna is titled as the king of curses. Angel referred to him as the fallen one. What if his technique is that of a god and so he was supposed to perform certain duties within the realm of jujutsu; however he decided to do things his own way. His technique allows himself to act as a temple that people can worship, pray to, and offer gifts (techniques, weapons, cursed energy, soul/body and binding vows)… this is why sukuna is able to understand any and every phenomenon because he’s been offered so much and has seen a wide range of techniques during the times people offered him their gifts…. When sukuna summons his DE, you see a shrine with mouths and it’s surrounded by corpses which most likely symbolises all those who have offered to be sacrificed by sukuna thinking they’d be rewarded by a king/ godly being but have only died and became apart of sukuna.
This is one of the most logically thought out JJK theories I've ever heard. The fact that his domain expansion technique is not in an enclosed space like everyone else, is a testament to how long he has been continuously adapting/evolving his power.
Don't know if this would be a curse techniques but I think it possible sukuna can gain curse energy through eating curse spirits and humans
this ability may not even be unique to him considering it has been shown curse spirits eating sukunas remains gives them a emense amount of curse energy his finger specifically where he constrainted most of it you might think him gaining the curse energy. It would also explain why sukuna was so unconcerned about letting yuji die I mean early on maybe but after the choso fight that was 20% of his strength given up because he's petty but if all it take for him to gain more curse energy is eating people he could regain his strength from only having 1 finger relatively quickly. It would also explain why he has such an insane amount of curse energy its all the energy gained from every person and curse he ate.
For the box techniques I feel like the box if most likely just a way to store techniques the same way yuta uses Rika as a hardrive to store techniques sukuna can store them in his inate domain or box and withdraw them when needed.
Hey I have some thoughts on this that I’d like to expound upon mainly that Cursed techniques are all derived from a base technique. Over the centuries Jujutsu sorcerers have “refined” these techniques via binding vows. Take blood manipulation for example. Keshizu had a limitation on his ability to freely manipulate blood but in return his blood became insanely corrosive. The more basic a technique is the more inefficient it is in terms of cursed energy but simultaneously more versatile and potentially powerful in the hands of a truly talented sorcerer.
For example creation is an incredibly basic technique. You can create anything but it is an incredibly inefficient technique. But if you made a binding vow to limit your cursed technique “creation” to a certain object. Say bullets, the efficiency in which you can create bullets becomes exceptionally greater. This ritual would bind the changes to the sorcerers basic technique to their innate domain which is passed on in the cycle of reincarnation.
4 times Sukuna saw a powerful curse technique and learned it's principle to use it in his own way (not copy) -
1 Seeing kenjaku using dead painting
2 seeing jogo using the fire element
3 seeing Gojo using RCT to heal curse technique
4 Seeing Mahoraga's slash and developing his space slash
Reincarnated sorcerers can change their morphology back to their original forms. I remember gege mentioning how yorozo already changed her face and body back to how it was 1000 years ago, it's something reincarnated sorcerers are capable in doing.
Yes they can morph back. But what I was talking about is how he even got that form in the first place way back in the Heian era.
@@Allons-Y-04 oh okay
@@Allons-Y-04he might've been born that way
Looking at his nickname the King of Curses, it could be as simple as that. He has his inherent techniques but Fuga (elegance, grace) could be almost like a king's domain where being the king of curses hes allowed to open cursed energy to copy other curses techniques. Fuga can also mean "good taste" which is another play on words dealing with food which sukuna as we know is a chef.
The fire he used in shibuya is the cursed weapon “hiten” he used in the heian era. He throws up 3 fingers when using it, hiten is a trident. He is able to seal the cursed technique of it.
I think his CT is based around cooking. even his DE was called Malevolent Kitchen and it would make sense as he is a cannibal. He cooks with fire and prepares with cleave and slash. He also carrys around Uraume as a freezer of sort.
If i remember correctly his cleave and dismantle technique cuts the souls and the other cuts objects, the body and the soul.
If he could transmute his cursed energy, then mahoraga’s first adaptation to limitless would’ve been sufficient. Sukuna stated he couldn’t use that
Maybe not transmute then but he can definitely do some process allowing him to make be sharp or hot like fire since we have literally seen him do it
Fair point but he could’ve also decide not to adapt in that way out of preference? Or maybe there was a biological limitation…
@@ahmaddeeniI could see Sukuna wanting it to be his personal attack that delivers the killing blow
@@Allons-Y-04like his technique is fire and the slashes are hot air?
@@jordanmorris5194from what we seen has has to chant open to use fire arrow so no way can that be his innate techinque especially when his domain is to do with slashes.
This theory got me to subscribe, it seems so obvious when explained this well 😂
i think the blck box is like a neural network, the neural network tries to adjust its weights, based on its inputs to generate specific output, a kind of refinement or fine tunning , and mahoraga powers also works in a similar way
I still think that it has something to do with Cooking/Chef. GeGe loves to use Budhisum in this writing, and if you look at kitchens and food and how it is important to the religion, it seems like "refine" and stuff is something that can work with this.
this by far makes the best sense. He would then want Mahoraga as an extension, a way to get the blueprints easier. If this is the case, Yuta is playing a bad hand, Copy is too broken with a master sorcerer
the flames on the fingerer are just an effect of the fingers getting taken from them and them dying since the same happened when Megumi later killed a fingerer
But in chapter 236 he literally stated that he could not apply mahoraga 's first adaptation of limitless to his dismantles because he can not change the essence of his own cursed energy and maho's first adaptation was doing that exactly. So how can you say he can transmute the cursed energy to give it different properties ?? Explain please ?
Thats a good point but I think thats different to giving your CE a property like heat (to make fire)
@@Allons-Y-04 different how transmutation is changing of essence and he literally said he cannot change essense of his cursed energy and if that so he already would have Bypassed infinity without the help of mahoraga. But i have a much better theory regarding his open ability if you want i can tell you here.
@@sawanpancholi7366 Mahoraga used adaptation to not register infinity for the first time which sukuna couldn't do. As it was mahoragas technique.
Then mahoraga actually upgraded his slash to cut the infinity which sukuna was able to copy.
It's literally stated dude.
@@bu11ymaguire wapas jaakar padle chapter ek baar fir
That’s actually really cool theory. The only question I have revolves around Yuta’s curse technique, since I always thought he copies another person’s curse technique, rather than its applications and attacks, but when he copies Sukuna’s technique, he only copies cleave. Perhaps he doesn’t know any other way it can be used, so he used regular cleave, or Sukuna’s curse technique is really just cleave and dismantle, which would be kind of unsatisfying resolution to all the build up. Kinda want to be proven wrong about it
Yeah that had me a lil stumped too
Gojo explains the difference between innate and learnt techniques, Fuga is only a chant sukuna uses, manipulating your own techniques and interacting with souls are all things anyone can do they just figure it out.
Megumi beat the finger bearer by broadening his own interpretation of his technique thats what sorcery is its why sukuna was grinning after he did that.
Yuji interacts with the soul as a learnt technique from his experience as a vessel and yuki tsukumo's research, not as an innate output of the brain but a learnt application of sorcery there's a canonically distinct difference.
what i like most about theory videos is that so many of them make so much sense, but then like 99% of them end up being wrong lol.
I been theorized something like this years ago when we first saw it. It makes sense because sukuna is the only person who knows what a curse actually is and the cursed realm, hes enlightened (the dark buddha). Initially i thought he was able to pull into the cursed realm but no he can create techniques to an extent, its similar to FMA where you look into the truth portal and now you can transmute without a circle. And think about it, sukuna has the best technique in the series because its almost invulnerable and a counter to all fighting styles and techniques. No cursed energy? Destroy all inanimate objects. Powerful Opponent? Charge a cleave. Domain Users? I have the most refined domain without the use of a barrier, next.
Sukuna can change the properties of CE but not through adaptation, more like experience.
Love the comparison to ‘The Truth’
Sukuna once said you don’t know true jujutsu, at the end he hes probably going to say this is real jujutsu-kaisen BOOM mic drop and the MC drops too
heres my take on the blackbox technique, blackbox by definition means that using something but doesn't know how it works on the inside, mfor example you use an equpment and it just gets the job done without knowing the mechanisms inside the equipment, similar to sukunas blackbox where he uses a technique without really knowing how it worked and as all people who watched quite any fiction it is called plot armor, this is Gege's way of giving Sukuna the plot armor, and I 100% guarantee we will not get any explanation of the technique as it removes the essence of the black box
Yuta ate his finger and got cleave/dismantle that pretty much confirms his technique. Each sword contains a copied technique it wouldn't make sense for the swords to store one specific application of a technique.
My theory on sukunas technique is that his technique is dismantle/cleave and he’s just so smart with jujutsu that he can copy curse energy traits for example kashimo curse energy is like lightning i think sukuna is smart enough to copy that
Black box was him opening yugis technique, sukuna said it comes from the body and during the time we don’t know yujis techniques yet and he was still in that body
But Yuji's technique is supposedly Sukuna's technique (according to Gojo) so I agree but for the wrong reasons
I earlier thought that Sukuna could control the 'entropy' or the randomness around him using slashes, but this theory articulates my thoughts perfectly. Great video!
I've been hearingbpeople say that sukuna may have had a twin brother in the past, although it's uncomfirmed i was thinking perhaps he could access the soul after being cursed by this supposed brother, who he absorbed in the womb, merging their souls allowing him more extreme power
not a fully fleshed out idea but i feel like sukuna had to do something to sit on the boundary between cursed spirit/ human.. which gave him the best of both. Maybe through the fact he was so feared throughout the world.. which ge harnessed. or maybe he found a way to exploit, the phenomenon where cursed users turn into cursed spirits when they die
Legit the ONLY issue i have with this theory is the fact that sukuna himself admited that he cant change the "essence" or the trait of his own cursed energy. Chapter 236 is where I'm getting this from btw where he describes how he couldnt mimic mahoraga's initial adaptation to infinity.
This makes so much sense it’s scary
A Craftable Cursed Technique...
That's the opposite side of Gojo's techniques! AND IT'S GREAT!
Refinement could also mean sukuna taking another cursed technique and amplifying it greatly, therefore “refinement”. (Pretty sure it doesn’t work like that but it’s 2 am and I’m tired)
No that’s very valid tbf
change the curse energy properties sound the best for me, it's already established with hakari and kashimo that elemental like curse energy exist.
sukuna can make his curse energy sharp, hot and electrified maybe, just one at a time.
I think sukuna' s curse technique might be creating wepons and store it in his shrine. This might have some special conditions too
Realistically there are so many options of what it could be. I think the only common factor is the theme of the soul between Sukuna and Yuji. I think in the ends that’s all that will matter
I assume his technique is the same old cleave and shrine, but he is using a certain martial art compared to new shadow style. This would explain why he uses hollow wicker basket and definitely brings in more attention to characters like kusakabe or miwa if their art had a unknown move.
Bro actually cooked with this theory
What if, by refine, it means refining the ability of the other user, he is in a fight with
Him looking into others Black Box’s would be the perfect CTR