You Can't Understand Ryomen Sukuna
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
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Sukuna glaze is not a bug but a feature
That's right!
Sukuna always makes pro gamer moves
Except the feature is an exploit devs are too lazy to fix and decided to just call it a feature instead
Or the feature is plain EVIL like Windows built in DRM and tracking or Minecraft Marketplace
@@narrativeless404 no you just didn't read .
@@Uwhwvwgwh Why do i need to?
I hate reading
I think UA-cam is enough to get familiar with the lore
And yeah, Sukuna is a fraud
32 minutes… i am seated
Woah your real didnt expect to see you here
Sup dude, good to see you here
Sukuna negs your goat Gojo keep coping you addict
Same
@@The_Perfect_Leader_Hal I agree with you but *nobody* mentioned Gojo. Stop pushing an agenda
I dont think Sukuna is as much of a hedonist as he is a nihilist.
Sukuna's whole critic of sorcerers he's fought is their ideals, their motivation. Hedonism, as a philosophy, understands pleasure as an ideal, and you motivation should be achieving it. But Sukuna despises ideals. To him, they are sad self-imposed chains that stupid sorcerers give their lives for. Not even him has "pleasure" as an ideal, he just enjoys it when its there but doesn't miss it when its gone. This is also related to how he phrases that phrase, "I eat if I'm hungry". He does not actively search for pleasurable dishes to suit his palate, as much as he just reacts to hunger. He does not go out of his way to "rule the world" or to kill or battle more people, even though he enjoys those things. He just waits. This is NOT hedonism.
Nihilism doesn't derive into dying by inanition either. It just negates any meaning beyond your own. In a nihilistic view (without partially negating nihilism with existencialism), every action is by whim. Sukuna has exactly that: he's unpredictable and capricious, only going out of his way to entertain himself for a moment. But because these whims have nothing but their own holders to become reality, it is up to the strength of the person to impose them onto reality. That's why only the strong rule in Sukuna's worldview. Only them have the strength to impose their whims and desires over the world, while the weak have to forget any of their own intentions and bend the knee.
In a way, I think Sukuna appears divine because he is the personification of the world he's been born in. A world with sorcery is inherently unjust, doomed to be ruled by those gifted with power. Even among the few privileged sorcerers, there are power gaps that can't be bridged. Striving for one's own power and desires is the only way to live. So Sukuna, the perfection of Jujutsu, the epitome of sorcery fights, just adheres to the very philosophy the world itself is practically designed to favor. Selfish nihilism.
I love this interpretation. It's not the "coping for despair" kinda nihilsm, but like, nihilism as in the force of nature.
Sukuna is absolutely a hedonist and a nihilist, he believes in meaning through strength, and also understanding others through jujutsu. He explicitly explains that he does everything for pleasure and the narrator tells us only his whims exist. He parallels strongly with Mahito, who was much more of a destructive nihilist. Sukuna even changes to more of that fashion in Shinjuku Showdown where he mentions finally having a role, and that being to crush Yuji’s beliefs entirely.
One thing I love is that sukuna technically doesnt even have a name. Ryomen sukuna is another title, another perception placed on him by others. Its so interesting and contradictory that for someone with such a strong sense of identity, sukuna could care less about actually definining that identity, he is routinely compared to a natural disaster, something devoid of a sense of self. Kenjaku falls in a similar boat, someone who has such a strong sense of self/selfish goal who is simultaneously a frankenstein monster of multiple souls and experiences, who's fundamental goal is tied to bringing others "enlightenment." Even kennys domain hand sign is a prayer to buddha instead of a representation of a god like the other sorcerers, he is a carrier of buddhas will as he sees it (enlightenment of others driven by his own selfish curiosity). Its just cool that all 3 pillars of jujutsu society are parasites, as you said, and all 3 have evolved past normal defenitions of identity.
mf that's just his name wtf r u talking about his brother literally had ryomen mentioned in his last name too...
*Couldn't care less. Why the fuck are people on the internet unable to ever use the english language correctly?
@@HeirofDaciaEverybody, let's point and laugh at the grammar Nazi.
🫸🔴🔵🫷 🫴🟣
@@HeirofDacia damn bro u need to smoke some weed
@@Kleide_ It matters not if illiterate cavemen laugh.
Not a parallel I would’ve made before this video, but I find it fascinating how All for One and Sukuna both sit at the ceiling of power in their respective manga, both revel in that isolation at the pinnacle, both pursue hedonism relentlessly, but they approach it from opposing ends. Where Sukuna embodies a world-crushing inhumanity, All for One conjures humanity’s ugliest aspects (pettiness, scorn, betrayal, hatred, despair) into an equally suffocating persona. Sukuna’s actions bely a tangled, unknowable mess of desires no human could ever understand, whereas AfO has always strived towards a pure, uncomplicated evil that could force anything and anyone to submit to him. Sukuna removes himself from the constraints of narrative to insert himself wherever he wishes, while AfO constantly taunts his enemies with how their place in the larger story renders their actions meaningless. Sukuna gives his opponents closure in death while AfO relishes how his presence denies others catharsis. However, what Rad highlighted the most for me is that Sukuna’s sense of self has never required a performance like AfO’s did. He’s always been unknowable, unreachable, unbound. Defeating All for One meant understanding his corrosive vision of humanity, as seen through Shigaraki and Deku's conflict. Defeating Sukuna, by contrast, will require unraveling his nigh-incomprehensible inhumanity, but I suspect through the merger Yuji will find a way to uproot himself from Sukuna's self-imposed narrative of the world.
Loved this!
Just about the last part. I believe sukuna’s potential defeat will be anything but predictable. Heck, he might even win. I don’t think gege will do something as simple as having sukuna losing an ideological battle which would translate into his physical defeat as well, in the shonen spirit. That would be way corny for this character. Rather, I predict a crazy character development that will have sukuna retreat or die in his own accord. And of course it will have to come through yuuji somehow.
I don't know why people are upset sukuna is as strong as he is, the whole time they said he is him. And he is
Nah he’s a fraud, he constantly makes fun of Yuji with his opponents like Mahito and Choso. So when they are actually dangerous he becomes extremely petty in order to kill them such as when he used Malevolent Shrine + Divine Flame against just Yuji.
The only reason he’s even alive right now is because he uses Megumi as a shield, otherwise Yuji and everyone else would have attacked him at once instead of following on their plans to save Megumi and taking casualties.
@@rustyrobotbeak01so he is a fraud for using everything at his disposal?
@@rustyrobotbeak01 gojo would be the fraud , born as the strongest even with the most complex techniques he's given by fate/destiny he still got cooked by a dude whose ct is cutting shit up
@@rustyrobotbeak01cry more 😂
@@hk_asa0pvp Gojo got nerfed by Megumi, if it wasn’t for him there would be nothing stopping Gojo from grabbing Sukuna with Maximum Blue and combining it with Red for Hollow Purple and obliterating him. The only thing good about Shrine is the open barrier pre-order that Sukuna and Kenjaku got, without ridiculous CE it’s practically useless against anyone who has more CE than you as Yuta and Yuji have shown by tanking regular dismantles.
Just a note at 12:50 Sukuna’s open barrier domain is not created from a binding vow, but rather due to the unknown ability in which he creates an open barrier domain, it automatically makes a binding vow, because there is a path of escape the radius increases.
Glad someone else caught that out.
A "Barrier" cannot be "Open". Otherwise, it isn't a Barrier.
Gojo and Sukuna are also kinda polar opposites. Sukuna was born with nothing and grew to do everything, whereas Gojo was born with everything and yet could do nothing. (A reflection of his domain, in which his explanation was “given everything and can’t do anything. Ironic? Isn’t it?”) Gojo was stated by the narrator to “burst onto the scene” at birth, a another example of Gojo forcing himself into the story/forcing his way into the title of the strongest (alongside him calling himself the honored one), whereas Sukuna’s title was always given to him. Gojo’s only satisfaction was in his death, Sukuna’s satisfaction has everything to do with his life. Not to mention their techniques and their symbolism, gojo’s being a complex and modern one and Sukuna’s being a simple and traditional technique (literally just cutting shit). Gojo wants to kill the higher ups due to their traditional views, while Sukuna embodies that traditionalism that Gojo hates. The two strongest characters are so different and it’s beautiful writing. Despite all the shit Gege gets for Sukuna kaisen and the Sukuna cycle (and his 2 week breaks every other week💀), he’s a master of a writer.
As a continuation of how the narrative, not Sukuna, grants him titles and works with him in furthering his prestige, I cannot recall Sukuna ever introducing himself to anyone. He never says "I am Ryomen Sukuna", nor does he even say the name itself.
If that holds up (someone please correct me if I am wrong), then even his name is based on the perspectives the world and narrative have on his external deeds and features. He is known by his dual face (Ryomen) and his cursed-spirit like terror he causes (Sukuna).
He might have never had a name, and never cared to grant himself one. In the pursuit of hedonism, strength and will and the mindset to take are the only identities needed. Titles, relationships, prestige, and possessions are superfluous and only in service to the pleasure of the "I". "I want, I crave, I dominate, I conquer, I am the Strongest".
Exactly well understood
Only thing id correct you on is the hedonistic take, like sure it is?
But is it really hedonistic or does it look that way towards US humans with human morals only? You get me ?
It's like calling a look hedonistic, when it's just programmed that way, ways child animals, lions and females. We don't label it, we just call it the natural food chain
I also see humans thinking sukuna is hedonistic
The same way humans thinking time is real or we have the EXACT definition
When it's only what we perceive it to be from our brains wired a certain way
A alien will laugh at our concept of time and measurements, on how wrong and offscale it is
Sukuna is just as incomprehensible to humans, as REAL time is to humans
We can't even process what black holes are full, yey alone understand it's time dilations and warps
You deff understand what gege is conveying tho, and I respect that and applaud you
It's so refreshing with all the children consuming this, with there narratives, headcannons, and perspectives on what makes a villian a 'fraud" or not
@@VET.INSTINCT I feel that JJK attracted the worst kind of people to its community which is those powerscalers from Dragon Ball and JoJo. I'm not saying that Dragon Ball or JoJo are bad, they are good mangas / animes with good story no doubt about it, but their fandoms are insanely stupid because they can only truly powerscale and it has led to this powerscaling mindset in the Jujutsu Kaisen community, where either a character is "the strongest" or they're a fraud, and there can only be one.
And I think that leads to them only reading the story to hype up their favorite character, i.e people looking at Maki being compared to Toji by Gege, and then running with it to say Toji could fight 20f Sukuna because Maki did.
@@andreasballe7470 😂😂😂 like straight Ludacris 😂 I feel you
Mind you (gege mentioning maki surpassing toji ATP in the manga) way younger also (with clear statements from gege himself, the actual narrator and creator
And there adding there headcannon and "this character = this similar character... DUH ? yOu dIdN't KnOw ?!"
It also has to do with them liking and following characters, powerscaling, and hype trains more than narratives, and story telling
The hype is part of the weekly manga reader experience that they can't ever just serperate... Stop.... Sit back.... And read at their OWN pace, then and only then without doing any of this.. does it become "very repetitive" "sukuna cycle" .
When in REALITY there not taking breaks... Spamming it with HIGH expectations, just to get subverted next chapters
They would hate reading Frieza back in the day
I bet money if they actually took a break, got off UA-cam, Instagram, and TikTok reels, stayed away from others opinions that either strengthens there delusions, or give new ones
They would actually like the story
They also looked at gojo like this weapon, that gege keeps demonstrating with main cast, and never really liked his character foreal, just "colorful, blue red purple!" "Shiny man, so handsome, ALL THE TIME"
Goofiness 😂
@@VET.INSTINCTSukuna himself admits readily to his hedonistic desires and seems quite intertwined with human culture to agree with the definition
I once saw a post somewhere, I forget where its from I'll try and find it later. One of my favorite aspects about Sukuna that I feel goes underappreciated when compared to his intelligence, love of Jujutsu and fighting is how spontaneous he is.
Lemme explain, in the Yorozu fight there was a period where Sukuna and Yorozu outright stopped fighting for a bit when she wrote that Haiku mentioned in the video, they were just scrapping a second ago and my man is confused about why there weren't seasonal words in her Haiku. During the Shibuya incident while fighting Jogo the man literally stopped to play red-light green-light with some random ass sorcerers and a whole ass meteor. When Mahito first attacked his soul by accident, Sukuna let him off because he felt like it due to them sharing a laugh at Yuji's suffering. After he fights Yuji and Maki when taking over Megumi, he doesn't even opt to kill Yuji despite having no use for him, he just laughs at him, compares him to a funny ass statue and leaves with Uraume even if killing him right then and there would've been optimal. And of course, how this grown ass man will take time out of his day to hate on what is essentially his nephew; it's honestly some of the best sides of his characterization in my eyes
that all just sounds like sukuna is a pos that hasn't gotten what he deserves
@@kalpeshbhoir7372 thats the entire point, he will never get what he deserves because he is the strongest and will keep it that way to stay entertained till he passes.
@@kalpeshbhoir7372that’s his character though and why he’s so good
@@Bagekeas yeah, he's pretty cool that way
@@kaliyuga14surfer88 he's the strongest because of sorcery, with that gone he'd become nothing but still cool
32 mins of sukuna glaze…. I used to pray for times like this
Sukuna is like majin buu but actually smarter. The best part about him is that his nicknames are given to him by people not like gojo who calls himself honoured one.
Yup
I do believe sukuna veiw everyone as “getting it all wrong”. To him he knows what reality really is, he isn’t faking anything about himself or his desires and how he extracts that from the world. To him he is the only one who u destined cursed energy but it amuses him when someone accidentally begins to grasp the truth of cursed energy. This might be why yuji pisses him off, it’s like being a know it all who is usually right and other people guess the right answer but you know they don’t actually grasp the material.
At this point Sukuna already cemented himself as a great shonen villain. He has what he always wanted. All odds against him
It’s a little funny since most shonen villains have this grand dream or goal they want for the end yet sukuna has basically achieved it and is living it
I'd go even further and say he's definitively a perfect villain
Nah looking at comments like these makes me think this video better explain why he’s a goat character let alone villian lol he lacks everything that makes a good character, backstory, character development, his own body, motive Etc. hell I d even go as far to call him lore man with no lore😂 but I’ll see after watching this 32 minute video
@@SumRandomGuy1 you definitely don't need a backstory or your own body to have a good chatacter
@@SumRandomGuy1
Look at aizen, damn near ZERO backstory and still a goated villian you can feel and understand
And gives villian vibes that break off from troupes
Try getting into more stories that's not so Madara villian like, and always needing a backstory and grandiose reason nobel for everything
Im also getting that you like more so anti heros, and morally grey villains than actual villains
We don't need any more madaras,
We need more aizens, who are both extremely intelligent and actually give off villian vibes. We need more breaking from human mindsets and powersets like aizen also (tho Kubo did retconned it a bit with him being lonely and wanting a rival, and change (where it starts merging with Madara type villains)
videos is 100% for people like you, hope you did watch it and learn something
I believe Gojo got exactly what he wanted in the end.
Gege can say all he wants about his character, but I feel like Gojo knew he would most likely die, he just wanted a chance to actually go full out against someone.
Gojo is extremely lonely, potentially the loneless jjk character overall. He spends his whole life seeking out the strongest people because he just wants that connection. He wants to be understood.
I believe Gojo and Sukuna both gave each other exactly what they needed. They both exterted the same selfish unrestraint. Because Sukuna thrills in battle, in strategy and power, and Gojo just wants to be matched fairly and pushed to his limits.
%10000 don't think Gojo really intended to win. Like he believed he would win, but I sincerely think he was thrilled to be finally defeated.
He saw a battle against Sukuna as either a win or a win. Dying to Sukuna or beating him; both were wins in Gojos eyes.
In a way I feel like this is how Yuuji could become Sukuna.
I could see a time travel twist worked in, where Yuji is actually Sukuna just after having absorbed the full Tengen spirit becoming a Deity.
Meaning Sukunas heian era as a deity is actually just Yuji post having watched himself give his friends the deaths or freedoms they deserve.
Crazy theory but eh.
@@klauds6375this would require yuji being in a womb with a twin brother ☠️
You said like Gege didn't constructed his character to be interpreted exactly that way
@@klauds6375I would love this
@@chromtastic2092Yuji is the devoured twin reincarnated
the goat and it's not close man
You my goat ❤
Make a Sukuna all forms vs Gojo if you can please
Facts🗿
fraud 🔥
@@Pbcvl Cringe ahh mf (I'm talking about u bty)
facts
Sukuna's cursed spirit part come from the fact that humans create a divine deity in order to worship and fear it. This is the most primal source of all religion in the world. In every religion gods cannot be fully understandable and cannot be fully percieved.
I really like this attention to detail writers add, where the more powerful a character is the wiser and more basic their intentions are. Realistically Sukuna has a good point within his own world view and the only reason anyone even argues against him is because they’ll die.
Feel like the thing which screams this the most is his in character refusal to insult someone about who they are, but insult what he sees them do or fail to do. He’s not hateful (until he gets hit with 8 black flashes consecutively), bro is the EMBODIMENT of “Powerful people have better things to do.”
Honestly who wanna bet Sukuna probably wouldn’t even kill anyone if no one performed any violent act towards him.
Same guy talking about how women and children were maggots he could kill the glazing went too far at the end but everything else good
@@yureimenkishi4291facts he’s definitely a cold blooded killer😂
@@yureimenkishi4291Moreso to eat and consume for, again, his pleasure. Mahito would absolutely go on a killing spree until people tried stopping him just for the fun of it, but Sukuna would just live as he did in the heian era, but with new people to consume, which is why he was excited upon his incarnation. Eat, kill whoever is in his way, be worshipped. Chill out. The perfect existence for a true, complete, hedonist.
I think he’d target very powerful sorcery for fun but yeah he’d leave most other people alone
i am not moving an inch while watching this
There are a few little pieces to this I personally disagree with, but like with your Higuruma analysis, I deeply respect your analysis and the premises you built it on, and I see nothing to criticize. I love the way you point out how the narration tries to force a perception of Sukuna onto him that he refuses to abide by. In a series that's so interested with identity and perception, it's such a genius detail that I'm kicking myself for not seeing before now.
For me, it's very interesting how the values the series expounds at the start of the series are muddied so badly by Sukuna and Kenjaku. The series starts out (and never really stops) criticizing the conservative and restrictive politics of Japan, the toxic collectivism that punishes people who won't conform and destroy the individual for the sake of the exploitative whole. But Sukuna and Kenjaku represent the biggest problem with that philosophy: that taken to its conclusion, it can and will create egotists who express their agency by taking away the agency of others, exploiting them out of greed and making the world unsafe.
So the series ends up critiquing its own philosophy. How can you reconcile this? The toxic communalism that lies at one extreme, the hostile individualism that lies at the other. Do you need to pick one or the other? Can it really be as simple as finding a middle ground? Or is this perceived duality between one's own needs and the needs of others just that: a matter of perception where they aren't as neatly separate as they seem?
I have a lot of other thoughts about how to analyze Sukuna, but I've decided I'll keep them to myself until the series is over. That will give me time to polish my ideas. In any case, this was another fantastic analysis from you! I was riveted from start to finish and have a lot of food for thought now. I had seen Sukuna as just a nihilist for a while now, but I'm going to have to consider if I see him as part-nihilist, part-hedonist or purely hedonist instead of nihilist.
Looking forward to your next video!
I never considered Sukuna and Kenjaku as contradictory to the major themes you bring up. It's an interesting viewpoint, but I don't think I agree.
Sukuna and Kenjakus individualism isn't in opposition with the communalism you're referring to, nor is it in opposition with the criticism of conservatism. Both of them are still bound/working within the bounds of Jujutsu; they still represent the oppressor. Just in a different form.
Parallels like the hierarchical clan system, the school system, Jujutsushi, are way more 1:1 with the real world, while Sukuna and Kenjaku represent a more primal, unique, conflict (if that makes sense) and I don't think absence of the former leads to the latter.
I may be misinterpreting what you're saying but I don't think it's a binary, nor do i think the goal is a middle ground between the two. Your last question in that third paragraph is much closer to what the idea is, I feel, and in a twisted, evil sense might be what something like the Merger could represent.
@@bigPPprincess good explanation
@@bigPPprincess Personally, I don't see it as a binary choice, either. I think that part of our needs as people are met when we give to others. There's a part of ourselves that isn't complete until we make a personal sacrifice for someone or something besides ourselves, whether it's as huge as giving your life or as small as giving some of your time.
I think that the Takaba fight shows the side of it where checking your ego for the sake of your craft is validating, is part of what a person's needs are. And I think you can see it with Choso as well, where Yuki saved him from giving up his life for the mission, but in Shinjuku he gives up his life for his brother. These are two different kinds of sacrifices, and the story clearly puts the latter above the former.
So yeah, I think that part of becoming whole is giving of your time, energy, and just the material of life for the needs of people and things outside of yourself. That even if you don't receive time, energy, and material in return, you still receive something. I believe that the conclusion GeGe is pointing towards is that Sukuna gained a lot by throwing away his humanity, but he may have lost something unspeakably precious, too.
Like Sukuna reminds me a lot of the characters in Chainsaw Man. Cruelty within suffering giving rise to broken people who are trying to claw their way from a state of struggling to meet their most basic, physical needs to something more precious and human. But Sukuna was so blessed with strength that he was able to brute force a way around the kind of very, very harsh development someone like Denji went through.
He's broken free from the whole cycle of give-and-give-back that's part of being human, and I don't think that it's entirely to his benefit. That's what I think the "big idea" is going to be, or part of it at least.
@@Yggdraseed Yep, being trapped in Yuji and being forced to experience another person wholeheartedly is cracking his exterior. Something I find interesting is while Yuji is punching away at him to try and get to Megumi I wonder how much more of Sukuna himself he'll reveal.
Another funny thing is if you take Kenjaku as an individualist (which I don't exactly, it's just that he doesn't have anyone other than Takaba that could crack his shell), his final life's goal being a literal merger of souls akin to how Sukuna and Yuji were trapped together is very ironic.
@@bigPPprincess Personally, I have some crackpot theories about Kenjaku lurking in the back of my mind still. The fact that Kenjaku takes their name after a depiction of Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion and the goddess of mercy, as well as how gentle and kind they were to Yuji's former classmate while escorting her out of the Sendai Colony, makes me think that there's another side to Kenjaku. One that sees all of this as a necessary evil and a form of "tough love" to force people to fight for their lives, in order to make them realize how strong people can be and how precious life is.
Although I also think that part of this may just be vestiges of Kaori's personality, the same as how parts of Geto's personality have seemingly become permanently integrated with Kenjaku. Which in itself is also ironic - how the person who preaches Social Darwinism and individualism has become such a composite personality that it's unclear how much of the original is left. I'm not sure if we're meant to look at this as a sign that there are still aspects of Kenjaku we don't understand yet, or if it's meant to highlight an inherent hypocrisy in Kenjaku's professed beliefs about humanity. Maybe time will tell.
On the subject of solitude, Sukuna's answer to Kashimo was about how different people are. In that moment is was taste, but it goes on from there.
This coincides with his excitement during the fight concerning new and interesting opponents. He'll stay interested because PEOPLE are interesting. He believes that people, even when reduced to a mere tasting, are able to excite him. Gojo wanted to train people up to his level. Sukuna tests them whenever they're ready to put their lives on the line to prove their worth.
Loved the vid. Loved the channel.
Radman's videos make me appreciate this series so much more. These are aspects of Gege's writting that are overlooked. You have to look deeper like this.
More JJK fans need to watch these vids, it's always so refreshing to hear takes and analyses like these that reinvigorate my love for this series.
Another banger. I wouldn't have guessed he spoke like that even though he's ancient, purely because of the casual tone.
I also realized Gege was trying to make the character opaque, but he always came off "quirky" whereas it's starting to look a lot more cohesive now.
another gift for the community, thats what your videos are. Ty for another one!
The main thing to understand is that sukuna is in every definition an actual psychopath, from the fact he fails to understand the significance of abstract concepts, hyper practical ability, his insane readiness to jump into fight after fight despite the danger,
Him having no care for the rights of others, & sukuna being completely high off the fact he’s the strongest.
For the story of jjk, this is very important as it shows what it takes for characters to stay true to themselves & those they care about in a world that’s constantly playing against them, curse or not,
as sukuna cannot truly care for anything other than himself being above others, practically, it’s the only thing that truly matters in jujutsu society, & then from there he has nothing to worry about other than fueling his spontaneous desires.
It’s the fight in jjk against unfair indifferences & your tenacity to overcome those obstacles of indifference differentiates the weak from the strong, & the main way the characters fight sukuna is by having the primary foil to someone like him, being psychotic in a clinical sense, ideals go hand & hand with abstract concepts as ideals primarily are abstract ideas made to solve a non physical perceptive problem, sukuna being too based in reality, & cannot practically understand why all the sorcerers he comes across use ideals against him as an ideal doesn’t carry anything concrete in the world so it shouldn’t matter, yet in the end it will because ideals are made to give people a different perceptive solution to seemingly impossible to solve problems that sukuna will fall.
Seeing the world too much as is as compared as it could be will be what takes him out.
The video: Why Sukuna is HIM
Facts
Grsat video, I really like how you segmented your parts.
2 weeks ago I commented on KOL's last JJK stream about Sukuna being poor not getting good regularly. "What I think is hilarious is that Sukuna's powers are like response of the fact that he was born broke. So broke that he ate his own brother while his mother was pregnant. So broke that he couldn't eat cooked food. The cleaving, dismantling and a furnace. The men became strong because of poverty." That's how I saw it. His humble beginning's might have been the start of his Divinity.
Nice
Jjk is about killing the past so that the future can prosper. Think about it, the old sorcerers and Sukuna represent an era of brutality and barbarism that has been rejected by modern society and by getting rid of them, jujutsu society can move forward not led by raw strength, cutthroat ambition, and old ghosts, but by a new generation, determination, and intellect.
Them: "How hard do you glaze Sukuna?"
Me:
Me and you both 🤝
I kind of get the vibe that as a cursed and unwanted child it was probably something along the lines of his mother having an affair with someone in a higher social or political standing than her and the consequences of it all. Maybe she was just hiding the pregnancy and not eating enough food for the twins as to not raise suspicion but ultimately with the goal of using the live children in some kind of power move against the sperm donor. Just a theory, but I do think he was technically born into aristocracy but in the rags to riches way.
The pursuit of pleasure is, in itself, a source of pleasure for me.
The Agenda shall be adapted to perfection with this! We will continue to push the Sukuna Agenda till the end of time!
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@@Thompsons547mad cus your blue eyed clown is nothing what he claims to be
Preach 😌
The only critique I have of this video is the beginning where; Gojo, Toji, and Jogo are treated as “regular people” because their deaths aren’t seen. Yet, I think the opposite.
We know they’re strong forces, we see the deaths of those weak all the time, but with those three we almost never see the killing blow but only the kill. As if it’s perverse to see the process and not just the result as the hierarchy shifts.
They’re eaten by a bigger fish, but because of that; it shouldn’t be watched as it seems wrong, but nature still must take its course.
Insane comprehension skills
Real. It's like how it's polite to cover your mouth to speak while you're eating. He'll hide it if he can, out of respect.
8:07 made me realize that Yuji is likely going to be able to give Sukuna a "proper death". To me, it would make the most sense narratively
Your jjk commentary is always insightful, thanks for the video.
Sukuna also doesn't understand others fully. Yes, Sukuna is abnormal and forces the narrative to his desires but he also is suffering as of late and all of that is because of Yuji.
We are alliens to Sukuna but the same applies to him. Sukuna broke his own hedonistic and self serving nature in chapter 248. Instead of being content with Yuji learning RCT and the prospect of a more interesting fight, he gets extremely infuriated and has a moment very similar to Toji in his second fight against Gojo.
Sukuna isn't an abstract diety anymore. He has been pulled from the heavens by Yuji.
Alright gege we know its you
NINE MINUTES IN AND YOU'RE ALREADY BLOWING MY MIND 🤯
Great video. I think you're the best youtuber when it comes to actual analysis of jjk. Powerscaling is great but I'm much more happy to see videos like these
8:45 i only now noticed hes holding his cursed tools in this shot god damn
Peak video, peak writing, and peak music choice with Chrono Trigger ost at the end
With all this considered, Sukuna fits Nietzsche's Übermensch concept, corroborating the thesis that those who find and remain true to themselves are the strongest.
Amazing video as always! Thank you for this glorious meal.
Like kashimo said, why did sukuna become fingers and transcend time if he was just killing time until he died
How are the manga images in this video so high quality ?
maybe yuuji understands him and maybe sukuna uses binding vows to seal his ideals in place, like philosophy inside the mind but cemented in place
Sounds like the paradox of hedonism assumes that people do not regulate and generate their own emotions. Basic buddhist teachings disprove this. Even when life is suffering you must me the pillar that generates worth for yourself.
How could the pursuit of pleasure be boring. By definition it is either achieved or being sought. Where is the boredom?
Solitude is basic foundation of humanity. We are all solitary entities.
Cooooook!!!! I will remember this
I like the video but the last stretch about Sukuna being about above the narrator is a big stretch. For example Sukuna was just explaining what happened to the almost dead or already dead Gojo.
This video was perfect. Full glaze idc. Seated the entire time listening without being able to take my eyes off. Keep it up.
I don't know if this perspective is out there, but this is my take. The whole point of JJK is that we need relationships. Yuji represents the pinnacle of a social lifestyle, and Sukuna is the pinnacle of an antisocial lifestyle (The Strongest), and when you pit the 2 extremes against each other, you see which lifestyle is correct. I'm gonna use the toji vs gojo fight as an example. At that time, Gojo was not "the strongest" and still had a connection with Geto. He was social. Toji was "the strongest" after breaking ties with his son, the only living person he cared about. He was antisocial, thus "the strongest." Gojo had to become "the strongest" in order to beat Toji, and that came with the consequence of his social life. Ever since that fight, Geto is kinda literally a ghost in Gojo's life. It's also important to note that Toji's one regret was losing his son. This fight shows that being the strongest is an unfulfilling life, and beating the strongest by becoming even stronger just repeats the cycle. That fight is happening now, but instead of Toji, it's Sukuna. But Sukuna is the literal pinnacle of that lifestyle, so there is no way to be stronger. That's why Gojo lost. It's not like fighting Toji, you can't just get stronger than him. There's gotta be another way. I don't know how the story's gonna do this, but somehow Yuji has to use the power of friendship to beat sukuna. We've already seen it, anytime he fights solo he loses, but in a duo he always wins.
I suck at writing but I just want to point out the strongest characters suffer socially in becoming stronger. Obviously there's Gojo. Yuta literally has to command the bastardized spirit of his childhood friend. Yuta also has to throw away his humanity to possess Gojo. Maki can only reach her potential in strength with her twin sister dead. this is pretty halfbaked but there's something here.
This was a great, well thought out video.
When you think about it, Sukuna never say his name out loud yet. Says a lot about his character.
Amazing analysis, but be prepare gojostans gonna come here and start barking and spamming in here coment section..(thats what they are doing since 236)
Sukuna is the Tanjimoro of JJK fr fr 👍
I do enjoy how Sukuna kinda won already. Even if he dies, he’ll go out in a bang like he always wanted… but if Yuji kills him and proves that his ideology that living for yourself is the only way to be strong, that may be different. Curious to know his response when all is said and done.
I still love Mahito more as a villain, but Sukuna throughout since his initial fight with Gojo has grown on me a bunch, and he is truly one to stand above the many.
He is soo Godlike, that it needs a PAIN ost to describe his character🤯
Ikr
Awesome video :) !
Ryomen Sakuna seems less like a man turned curse, and a curse born into the world as a human, living life as he pleased, and changed the world fundamentally. The title of King of Curses seems too small for his role, even hinting at the real reality: that he was the King of a nation of Curses, understanding the energy of Jujutsu so fundamentally, knowing its fundamentals, its techniques and rules, that he attempted to transform it...and was interrupted. That Sakuna's no miss domain requirement became the stated goal of all Sorcerers, the pinnacle of technique...it is everyone chasing the King of Curses. To understand the King, is to seek his heights, and his ecstacy in the moment...but what does he want?
And it is to live in the moment, live as you desire...that begins to say something.
Hell, its an idea worth an essay alone.
the fact this just made me understand him better
I really like the detail of the narrator siding with sukuna. it really shows that in the world of Jujutsu, the entity that is Sukuna is an objective and infallible force. One of the reasons why he's stands so above everyone is because nobody is willing to admit the harsh truth that the is complete disregardful ideals of Sukuna. Kashimo wanted to feel love properly, so he couldn't quite match up to Sukuna. Jogo wanted to make a world where his fellow comrades can thrive without opps and because of that he fell short. Gojo would do anything for his students as the events that happened to him as a teen shaped him and shifted his feelings greatly. all three of these we're very strong, but they weren't even at their full potential because they each were bounded to the world by something. Sukuna isn't limited and held back by worldly things and as a result his power is comparatively boundless compared to everyone (accept saturo gojo of course). this is rather simple but ties in well with the buddhist themes off juju fighters. in buddhism, you go through a natural cycle of suffering, birth, death and rebirth. all sorcerers go through all those things with immense hardships. Being born in world with negativity incarnate running rampant, seeing the people you went to school with die, and in specific cases being reborn as the very thing you would destory (vengeful curses). sukuna has in a way ''escaped'' all of that or at the very least the cycle doesn't bother him and he abuses it however he wants via become a couple of repugnant fingers. when you escape this cycle, you reach a state of nirvana, absolute freedom. Sukuna has reached an enlightened state of jujutsu and just a being in general and is free to do whatever he can with the energy and the world. Our cast is literally facing someone who is close to god status if not basically there already. no other being we know of has come even close to this state other then probably Gojo who had a sort of ''false nirvana'' by sort of disregarding riko's death. it lasted for a bit but we see it gave Gojo a massive power boost. the privilege to do things he previously couldn't (rct and by extention hollow purple) and the ability to do it freely. in other words, sukuna glaze isn't just glaze its true cuh
Yes I do he's just a really funny man with four arms and the nightmare fredbear mouth
You pointed out literally everything and more that i had in mind when analyzing Sukuna. You ate this up. God, Gege cooked so hard when creating Sukuna
There’s this theory that Sukuna is the main character of JJK, as with every beginning chapter it’s titled with central character, and literally at the very beginning of the story it’s not titled Yuji, it’s tilted Sukuna
Based on the story of Sukuna and his twin will Yuji physically consume Sukuna becoming him fully in story (completing the cycle) as well as in body (literally becoming Sukuna) and having Fushiguro kill him thus completing Yujis original dream/purpose?
love the music choice
lovely video as always man
32 minutes of Sukuna glazing, I'm all for it
The thing that breaks Sukuna from the Hedonistic paradox is that he ACCEPTS the pain, thus giving the pleasure worth, whilst pure hedonism AVOIDS the pain. At least that’s what I get from it.
who I REALLY can’t understand is hakari
Why do we look at a man whose mother was so dead, she couldn't even feed him in the womb? And get all surprised that he's more irredeemably evil than DIO?
Sukuna has that in common with Cursed Spirits, you know? He just sort of spawned and wreaked havoc.
14:50 THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT MORE.
Uraume is one my favorite examples of androgyny and possible trans/nonbinary representations in modern media because of how their gender representation is both so understated and yet very present in their characterization. Uraume is literally Sukuna’s lapdog, and only does things in service to him, meaning they probably have no real use for gender or sexuality as concepts for themself. It’s so funny how much the JJK community argues over Uraume’s gender when Uraume themself would probably say “who cares?”
Put simply, Sukuna's philosophy is like the Reio's. Whatever goal he sets his mind to achieve, he WILL see it through thoroughly even if it means he allows himself to be mutilated and sealed away for millions (a thousand) years (which is curious now that I think about it, because Yhwach also awakens after 1000 years).
The only difference being that Reio's goal was achieved WITH his mutilation as it led up to the current era of Bleach, whereas with Sukuna, the mutilation LED TO his goal in the present day of JJK. (again, wherever they are dissimilar, Yhwach parallels Sukuna)
Reio could've regained his lost body parts and power at any point in Bleach and went on a killing spree just like Sukuna, and on the flip side, Sukuna could've allowed himself to be used by the Jujutsu society like a cog alongside Yuji to take down all curses but went the other route instead. (again, Yhwach parallels this)
King of Curses: Power system revolves around curses and curse energy.
Soul King/King Of Quincy: Power system revolves around souls and soul/spirit energy.
Where Sukuna ate his twin and claimed divinity as his right and said twin sired a son who would oppose him, the Reio started out as divine but sired a son who would later threaten his divinity and inversely eat him up (as Sukuna did his twin).
I never actually thought about Sukuna's actual existence and the significance it has to the very world of JJK too deeply until now, he is by all intents and purposes a deity, a god that can choose to do whatever he deems "right" and the world would shape itself around his will.
I always had this crazy theory that Yhwach was just the Reio's Zanpakutou spirit (or equivalent of, since Zanpakutou didn't exist at the time as they do now). Similar to how Stark can split his soul into other lifeforms that share his power.
Following the story of Christ, Reio would've sent down the "Holy Spirit" to impregnate a human woman, so a "part of himself" making Yhwach technically just a part of Reio from the beginning. Him calling him "father" is no different from Jesus calling God "father" despite being a part of the Divine Trinity that is God.
In that sense, one could argue that the part of Reio that wanted progression ironically had to be sealed forever stagnated in time, and the part that wanted stagnation to begin with was born as a human, Yhwach.
When you look at it from that perspective, Yhwach absorbing Reio then parallels Sukuna even more since technically, they would both be "eating" their other "half" (Reio was more powerful, and in JJK, one twin would usually be more powerful).
Sukuna is the realised form a what Yhwach+Reio as one being would look like.
lol, I was only going to talk about Sukuna and Reio and it branched off into Yhwach as well (yes, I went back and put Yhwach's parallels in brackets midway through typing this.
Anyway, thank you for reading. It's just a random thought that I had when Radman got to explaining the Deity stuff about Sukuna so I thought I'd just type it out as a comment, I didn't know it would become a whole essay (sorry about that😂).
TLDR: Sukuna is to JJK what Reio is to Bleach, essentially.
Very good comparison
Always seen him and believed him to be comparable too aizen and I love aizen
But your making me understand ywatch and fuckk with him more
And I watch mrtommo bleach analysis all day 🫴🏿🤧😂😂😂🤞🏿
Ty tho
Another great video
Jjk is Sukuna Kaisen from Chapter 1 people just don't realise it
Hes not that hard to understand to realists
Yeah. He is pretty real, he does what he wants and he will die for it.
23:59 Good God damn point. There are things that humans will not be able to understand. Especially from the viewpoint of someone like yuji, who is a 15 year old kid. Sukunas lived many moons. His mindset is one built on eons and eons of seeing the world change. It really does just come down to you either understand or don't.
You are a philosopher.
You’re simply not a historic one.
To think for yourself, generate beliefs based on those thoughts and have those beliefs evolve as new truths reveal themselves.
That is what makes philosophy
Crazy thing is, Sukuna has never refered to himself as Ryomen Sukuna. Its almost as if he doesn't have a name
I think that the symbolism more points to sukuna being the result of a bunch of different curses throughout his life. I think he's causing suffering so that he can reincarnate later even stronger. Sukuna won't die because too many people fear him.
It's not related, but I would love to see you cover Ranger Reject at some point and hear your thoughts on it
Interesting video
Do not confuse the inability to understand a character because they’re badly written and made up on the spot with “it’s a feature”
The narrator themself doesn't even know what's going on
I still don’t understand how the six eyes didn’t see the slash
The Six Eyes see the flow of cursed energy and use it to decipher cursed techniques. They can't actually see the techniques themselves. Since Sukuna's slashes are so fast, Gojo was probably unable to decipher any information from them, nor any "sparks" that come from technique activation. That's my idea at least.
People saying sukuna glaze change words they use every Twitter fad
Great Video.
The only thing I don’t like is that we don’t know what sukuna vs gojo would’ve really been like because he needed mahagora to beat him because he wouldn’t understand to cut space which is a little goofy to me
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I aint move watching this
Now I'm going to draw parallels between SCP and JJK i guess
Cuz both are inherently EVIL and their narratives just as cathartic and insane
And Sukuna is very much like SCP 682 - an incomprehensible evil god
What was the music in those last 5 minutes? Can't put my finger on it !
Subscribed. Great analysis and perspective of the story
So, I'm really proud of you. I wish more people could admit when they interpret something incorrectly later on after more information is presented instead of doubling down. I watched some of your other JJK videos a while back, and I remember disagreeing immensely with that one point... I believed wholeheartedly since the Jogo scene that Sukuna was really there and it wasn't a near-death hallucination.
Okay, okay.. I subbed now lol 😅
What happened to your Twitter
Can someone tell me the name of the theme played in the first few minutes of the video
good vid
I don't why but this level of hedonism speak for a deep trauma in sukuna past
who made art at 19:40
Im not enough of a deep edge lord for Sukuna
I see
Sukuna’s asymmetric face is his biggest crime against humanity
You can't understand him because he doesn't make sense. That could be a bug or a feature. It's polarizing regardless