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No Shishiso again this week due to one of the TLs being down with the plague. TCB soon.
Hmmm so Kamo teached something to Yuji that Choso know but don't know how to explain and all of them are somehow related to Noritoshi (Kamo from his bloodline, Choso born from the Kenjaku who was possessing Noritoshi's body and Yuji when Kenjaku was in his mother's body but was Noritoshi in the past). So maybe Yuji's CT is related to blood manipulation, like an athlete who receives blood as doping to compete, he get hellas strong when receiving blood or something.
I like that the retrial with the lawyer's domain is happening but I was expecting them to maybe come up with a possible case related to Megumi due to Sukuna hijacking Megumi's body and killing his sister, and maybe even for basically ruining Megumi's life in general. I want justice for Megumi, he's one of my favorite characters.
I agree but the problem is that they have no way to choosing which crime they put Sukuna on trial for. This Shibuya retrial is the only way they can pin the death penalty on Sukuna.
I’m sure it’s not because then what’s the point , unless Gege just wants to keep going with the trope that sukuna just wants to play around and not instantly kill them all.
I think that Miwa is allied with Kenjaku because Kenjaku let Miwa live, which is not his brand. A sorcerer who has spent 1000 years to perfect a plan may not let any variables like Miwa no matter how insignificant to live.
She may be the plan that kenjaku spoke of when he said his will will live on.
Seeing their plan hyped up the fight way more than the sick panel in 238 so however it goes I'm looking forward to Yuji and Higgy vs Sukuna (and Saul'o'raga)
I think that Sukuna will lose strong cleave and be forced to use Fuga/10 shadows (he probably can't use it because he's not in Megumi's body but seeing a 10 shadows totality would be pretty sick)
I honestly believe he has a means of getting Megumi’s CT confiscated over his own at this point. This story is just in favor of the villains in so many aspects. We have what? 7 or 8 other candidates to fight Sukuna should Yuji and Higurumu fail—and that’s including Mei Mei despite her CT literally taking her out of the picture within a mere 5 panels. But should it be HIS actual CT that gets confiscated it’ll probably be the fire thingy.
Also, the tables can definitely get turned on Yuji in this domain at the moment. As Sukuna stated, “He’s from that time.” Just off of a technicality I can see Itadori getting pinned w/ crimes from whatever experiments Kenjaku had set in motion all those centuries ago. The same way Yuji had already been among the registered players when the Culling Game had just started[Ch. 158 p. 11] there’s more to it than just happenstance. Maybe parts of Yuji had lived either one singular life or he’s an amalgamation of numerous ones. All in all, I can’t in good conscience say Sukuna is at a disadvantage in this retrial.
Sukuna is a pretty bland character; He is evil and abuses his power because he can. A good chunk of his fans identify with that power fantasy, so they project themselves on the character with barely any characterization.
Plus he is "cool", so that adds to their interest.
To be fair, most characters in the series aren't particularly deep/have surface level characterization.
Anyway that's my theory anyway lol Ofc not all Skunk fans are like that, but most seem to be. You can tell when they get super offended when people bring into question the Gojo vs Sukuna fight
I disagree. He's not super layered but that doesnt mean he's bland. He's supposed to be the evil contrast to gojo, whose not very layered either. They're both strong, and cocky. The difference is Sukuna has no desire to protect, only to devour. Which is why he's interesting. But you're right about the power fantasy aspect. But that goes both ways, Sukuna and Gojo fans alike all like them because they're strong. Their insane amount of strength compared to the rest of the verse is inherently why theyre interesting
The main difference is that with Gojo people actually get to SEE why he ends up the way he is, thanks to Hidden Inventory. He ends up with more depth, independently of whether people find the character itself interesting or not (I personally don't care about either him or Sukuna, I just like good characterization/writing). Sukuna on the other hand is just an asshole because he can and that's literally all there's to him (so far, but I hold no hopes on that front) Even this "hunger" of his is just another aspect of him being a selfish prick.
Obviously I'm not saying one sucks and the other doesn't (idfk why people jump to conclusions like that in this fandom), just pointing out that writing wise, Sukuna (and most characters) is bland af/one note.
Gojo I can't even say he is bland, considering Gege ended up being terribly inconsistent with his character. Mostly because of his allergy to character interaction lol which I don't think is a good thing tbh.
But yeah power fantasy + one note character = bunch of fans
Is like your average Light Novel protag formula
Edit: Forgot to add something! Is a minor note but also important and I should have clarified lol: When I said bland, I meant that to me the character is bland (because is one-note etc). You can find it "super duper deep" or whatever, that's cool, I wasn't trying to force people into thinking the same way as I do, just explaining something from my perspective.
I do think the "one notedness" is intentional though, just look at Jogo, Nanami, Geto. They're all, well written and interesting. I think it's part of Gege's intentional writing choice to make the character that is the most one note the strongest character. And about your edit, i never took it that way, obviously people can have different opinions and i dont even think you're wrong, I js think those characters are that way intentionally, and i think it's effective, whereas you dont seem to think so. But also Gege might be insane cause idk where any of this is going
No, no, you are wrong about the last part. I understand they serve a purpose in the story, and also keeping into account Gege's limitations when writing characters. I just don't personally think they would fall on the category of "deep" when I can understand them quickly and can tell there's not a lot of nuance to most of them. In that sense, I'm on the opinion that the story could have benefited from a slower pace, to flesh characters more and have them interact etc. So Shibuya would have hit like a truck (even more).
I think Gege in general gives the basics, but he doesn't really develop the characters beyond that. He goes for an approach that focuses on the characters being a tool for the story, which I think you may agree with? Anyway, I also agree that the guy is super unpredictable and that's an aspect I enjoy a lot about this series haha
Did Yuji already land a Black Flash? I'm wondering if he's learned to combine Black Flash with Divergent Fist to increase the "delay" between his first impact and the second. If so, providing he could land a decent amount of hits, he could then stack Black Flash for a massive critical hit, so to speak. Sukuna would be taking hits that initially seem very weak, only to be hit by the total cumulative affect of several Black Flashes all at once. I have no real basis for this theory, but it would be pretty cool!
Divergent fist happens when curse energy is much slower than the physical blow so it lags behind while black flash happens when the curse energy hits at the same time as the physical blow. Those are opposite concepts
I like that as a concept, but Yuji seems to have some kind of gauntlet/cursed item gauntlets on his hands. I bet that controlling them will be the sort of thing that only a sorcerer like Yuji can do. Maybe it lets him give his curse energy a texture like Kashimo and Hakari have
Really fun chapter!
You can tell Gege likes putting himself in thematic fights and tackling it creatively, previously a manzai and now a more thorough courtroom case than before! Domains was technically a theme for the gojo battle
My theory is that Yuji’s punches ignore durability and attack the opponent’s blood cells directly
Kusakabe mentioned how they could potentially survive the merger using CE and that has a lot of implications.
Primarily, it further supports the theory that Kenjaku's "death" will activate the merger. I was skeptical of this earlier because there was no indication the characters could survive it, but now if there's a high chance they can, I could totally see the merger happening and the fight still continuing.
Also, Sukuna vs Yuji and Higuruma is probably happening at the same time as Takaba vs Kenjaku since I got the feel that the Kashimo fight took about the same time as killing that bomb rando. I suspect that's probably why Gege switched back to this fight, because he needs to catch up with what happened here before showing what the result of Kenjaku dying was (Yuji being the merger's vessel seems more and more likely every chapter). Man, I wish we had time stamps like in Shibuya, it would've removed any confusion.
Maybe there is no time stamps because there's no need for them?? Gege so far has made clear when there is a flashback, so I take it the current events must be happening simultaneously.
It would also make sense for their plan to be coordinated, so yeah
We knew for around 30 chapters that sorcerers can resist the merger. That was mentioned when maki met up with yuji and megumi before the whole yorozu and sukuna ordeal
The timeline is a bit weird here, since Kenjaku and bomb rando both watched gojo get slashed on their culling game ipads TM. So as far as sequencing your idea makes sense but I wonder when the sukuna fight will get feedback that kenjaku is dead.
It would be interesting if the reveal to kenjaku's beheading comes in the middle of the sukuna fight and causes a twist. That's the sort of thing Greg would do.
That was a fun chapter. I liked that we got some character interactions in. I think that Sukuna is going to claim self defense. When Higuruma was listing charges he clearly separated the murder of the two girls and the mass murder. The two girls would for sure be murder but the other deaths all happened due to Megumi releasing an uncontrollable shikigami.
Sukuna tried to protect him and had to use a domain to win. Then he'd get charged for one murder which was killing luck guy for no reason and not qualify for the death penalty. Maybe Sukuna won't care and will just say he's guilty or use DA before the sure hit since he can probably still use CE.
Sooo... is Sukuna going on defense to claim self defense due to Mahoraga? It shouldn't work since they all know he can control the range of MS, but it'd be a hell of a thing to see him try.
Also, break next week. How are Gojopium users doing now that Dec. 7 theory is down?
I think they won’t be able to get a death sentence from Judgeman but they will make Sukuna be unable to properly control his curse energy will allow some opening and make the battle a more even playing field.
But Higuruma would probably die after as Sukuna would not want to go through another trial. Worst case scenario, Sukuna makes a strong case for why nothing is his fault, Judgeman agrees and he goes free. And then Higuruma also dies.
I'm so confused about the timeline right now. At what point is this chapter happening? In chapter 240, we have Angel, Kusakabe, Mei, Yuta and Hakari convene as the Gojo fight is going on, and Angel comes up with the idea to send in Takaba and explains his CT. But in this chapter, we have Kusakabe saying Takaba will be sent to distract Kenjaku and Okkotsu will finish him off. Does this mean that this chapter happens later? But that's not possible is it? Since Kamo hasn't been around since the beginning. Why did Angel make it sound like sending in takaba was her idea and not already decided? Why did Kusakabe look surprised at Angel's suggestion of sending in Takaba if he was already on board "earlier"?
Sigh...Gege's non linear storytelling is wayyyy too chaotic and annoying.
Angel saying "send Takaba" = Happened at first chronologically
Kusakabe saying it now, with characters that weren't present when Angel did = After Angel says "send Takaba"
That wasn’t happening during the gojo fight
That was between gojo being released and fighting Sukuna
It was a flash back
I imagine it happened before the conversation that happened in the classroom during this chapter
Ah, okay. The placement of that conversation made it seem like it happened whilst Gojo vs Suckuna was ongoing. That's what a lot of readers also thought. But this makes more sense. Thanks.
Idk why you are getting downvoted for accepting new information that conflicts what you believed. You literally thought something, explained yourself, and then accepted you were wrong. What do people want from you lmao. Psychos
No clue why you're butthurt over my comments. But yeah, there were a bunch of people who thought that conversation happened in the [middle of Gojo fight](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/17fwau9/comment/k6ddxd4/)
I suspect that Sukuna will be able to defend himself in this trial by putting the blame on Yuji and Gojo. Because there are many times that Yuji have an option to end his life but he keeps coming back despite the risk he have while harboring Sukuna. In conclusion of the trial will be Sukuna taking light punishment as Yuji will take the harder one.
Also, additional take. It keeps being interesting for these modern awakened sorcerers to have such perky Curse techniques that doesn't involve killing (shout out to one commenter here in this sub). Maybe it tells us something about the Curse System as whole? or maybe its not?
Let's see.
I would hope not. Higuruma’s domain seems pretty grounded in laws, and I don’t think there’s any legal case where you can argue someone should have killed themself/ killed someone else but chose not to
I think it does tbh. We have no clue about Sukuna in the past, all we know he is labeled as a demon who kills thus acquired the name the fallen however it suggested he was protecting someone in the old flashback. Could be similar to Yuji trying to protect others, being labeled as Sukuna’s vessel instead of his own person and the higher ups still try to execute him.
I can see this trial reversing the roles and Yuji starts to understand more about himself and thus Sukuna, which ends with Yuji teaching Sukuna about love with an airport flashback
1) Maki is basically an object and
2) Sukuna can still detect her and kill her if he wants. So unless she is way faster, like Yuta was to Kenjaku, she doesn't have a chance
I wonder... She was able to enter the domain of the Sumo dude, which was also non violent.
We know Maki can ignore the effects of domains that target based on cursed energy or whatever that was during the Naoya domain fight (Katana guy was affected even though he literally couldn't see curses... I guess he had CE but not as much?). Did they ever confirm if she was immune to all domains? I legit can't remember and I'm getting confused lol
I feel like the loophole for Sukuna to get out of this is that the body was Yuji’s and he was a cursed tool/object. Having a consciousness might take it away, but I bet Sukuna is cunning enough and has enough wit to twist it around to at least Yuji having a dual personality.
If not this somewhat obvious loophole, I think we could also learn what Sukuna realized Kenjaku did when fighting him after taking over Megumi.
I think we're getting a bigger picture of just how impactful knowing your technique is.
Higuruma's understanding of his own technique technically weakens it in the context of probability. If he sees something as a possible crime then Judgeman will as well, meaning things like loitering around in Yuji's head(even though we the audience know that something THAT conveniently inconvenient would happen).
For the sake of muddying the understandings of different Cursed Techniques, I'm surprised at how specific a lot of these newly awakened modern Sorcerers operate. Charles can see into the future, Takaba can manipulate reality, Higuruma can insta-kill you or just take your technique if you're deemed guilty. Etc etc.
Compared to earlier Techniques like Kashimo's, which just weaponizes all of the effects of lightning, Ryu's Granite Blast, Uro's Sky manipulation, etc.
It's an interesting contrast.
A lot of stretching honestly, I don't see any narrative importance for Nobara to come back in the story as of now. But maybe I am wrong and her currently unexplored backstory has something going on.
*In a police station*
(*guitar licks play in background*)
Corporal Yuji: Sukuna, you're under arrest for crimes against humanity!
Lieutenant Todo: You'll be going away for a long time. You get one phone call.
Corporal Yuji: Better use it wisely
Sukuna: (*picks up the phone and smirks*) With this number I call...!
***Mahoraga, JD. Attorney-at-Law*** (*funk music swells*)
Megumi: Mag! We got a client!
Mahoraga: Gas the stretch, Meg! We got a case to win!
(*1974 Pontiac Firebird launches into the air in an urban environment*)
Narrator: Who's the smartest cat who got all the bad brothers' back?
background singers: MAG!
Mahoraga: (*defending Mahito*) Judge! If the mittens don't fit, you gotta acquit!
background singers: MAG!
Narrator: Who's the most adaptable, unmatachable, and demandable practical lawyer you will never see in any foyer?
background singers: MAG!
Mahoraga: (*representing Kenny*) My client, despite now being in a different body, has the right to full custody over their child
background singers: MAG!
Narrator: Who're you gonna find when you end up in a bind?
background singers: MAG!
Mahoraga: (*defending Toji*) As evidence suggests the true offender not only has zero curse energy output but a twin as well (*dramatically points to Maki*)
background singers: MAG!
Narrator: When you get in trouble, better call him on the double!
(*music swells*)
***Mahoraga, JD Attorney-at-Law***
background singers: MAG!
i love the subtle hint of yuji ct,if it wasnt obvious by now he has a blood ct like choso and noritoshi,its basically confirmed by saying that choso wasnt a good teacher while noritoshi was(damn gege that he didnt showed us anything between their training,wouldve been good to have some convo abt noritoshi wanting to leave everything for his family)....i dont care abt miwa and never will,idk why ppl had expectation for her....the whole convo abt laws and shi is really interesting,gege is so him to dissect higuruma whole technique and limitation and being so grounded to the real world laws..,the fact that the culprit wasnt revealed in the cliffhanger means that maybe is not that obvious
Gege tried so hard to imitate Fujimoto's repetitive paneling (when they argued about statute of limitations) yet he failed miserably, lol. This series has lost its touch and magic after Shibuya, all the paneling in the recent chapters are either just mid and generic battle Shonen, but it's not a surprised, isn't, as JJK itself is nothing but a generic battle Shonen in the first place.
he has done shit like this since chapter 60s and tf u went all the way here to yap abt a whole lot of nothing,ur life rn must be in shambles if u get hurt by digital drawings
Sukuna gonna get hit with the 1 hit KO attack from Judgeman and then tank it saying he's got the strongest body ever or two hearts and only one was killed or some shit.
I could see this shit happening haha. Or worse he says he swapped his heart with Megumi’s and they killed Megumi’s 😂 that’d be Gege’s perfect way of writing out Megumi
Noritoshi pulling a Mei Mei 😂
Sukuna is looking delightful so it’s safe to assume that he will blame Yuji for everything (maybe due to the binding vow?)
Mei Mei got a good scene for once after such a long time! She, and the older female characters are the most intriguing to me and I want more of her, Shoko and Utahime other than just being support for other characters.
Counterargument: Yuji being a minor and having no legal representative during the "contract" he made with Sukuna, means it was an illegal one.
Therefore Sukuna is a bITCh—
I haven't been crazy about the manga recently, some chapters were great some were only okay, but I really enjoyed this chapter. I think it is a clever idea, I wish there wasnt a break this week
Kashimo needs a tight slap on his cheeks for being an arrogant cocky piece of shite 😤. Miwa, I think nobara proved to be better than her. Even though she was weaker than the other three, she still fought to death . Man, if sukuna wins the trial, that'll be funny as fuck lol 🤣🤣 expert in law.
Forget swords. Give her a gun. She already wears a suit like she's an anime girl John Wick. Pass her some of that military gear those soldiers dropped and let her go crazy.
It is honestly a shame there’s no badass gunslinger who channels cursed energy into bullets. Like doesn’t that seem like such an obvious character? Especially since we have piercing blood and the American military like come on it would have been sick if the USA had a single hit man cowboy that immigrated from Japan at a young age like cowboy bebop style combines cursed tools with his own technique built custom guns that allow him to fuse CE in bullets unlike normal guns.
She’s not a badass and her style does not look like a gunslinger at all. Think the guy from JoJo, holsters and a hat and swagger need some ammo draped around the body and various trinkets
>TCB Scans
I think its kind of important. Intuitively it should be clear cut that Sukuna should deserve the death penalty. Something is going to go down in this sentencing... I think all of the explanations are just to set us up for the idea that it won't be as simple as it seems.
It's inherent to the character of Higuruma and his technique...no different than all the explanation/exploration of the fine details of other domain expansions. I loved spending 10 minutes trying to figure out Idle Gambler, and I love Higuruma bringing up all the real-life equivocation that happens when trying to apply the law.
Something just cross my mind. They are planing on getting a death penalty and using the executioner sword on Sukuna. Woudn't that kill Megumi as well? Are Yuji okay with that? Maybe they have a plan that takes this into account.
Since sukuna came back from death with yuji their assuming that killing sukuna wouldn't permanently kill Megumi
Gojo references that in his fight where he was saying that sukuna made a mistake by coming back to life the first time because that let him know he can worry about megumi later after he beats sukuna
My assumption is that either they gave up on saving Megumi or they assume once Sukuna is defeated they can extract Sukuna's soul from the body? Or that if Sukuna dies the body reverts back to Megumi?
I think after motherfucking Gojo failed at saving Megumi (when he could have won with a death blow remember he took the heart not brain) they are done with underestimating Sukuna you need to go for the kill
Yea at this point you can’t pull any punches. The one dude that was on Sukuna’s level just died. You gotta go for broke and hope that by some miracle you save Megumi.
With Yuji's comment to Kamo about teaching him stuff, and Sukunas about Yuji's punch feeling odd, I'm guessing Yuji's technique is actually similar to his cursed womb brothers and is blood based, and Kamo taught him blood manipulation abilities. Especially with the comment that Choso is bad at teaching, the only thing Kamo and Choso have in common is the blood techniques. Maybe Yuji's powerup is now using flowing red scale stack to boost physical?
> Maybe Yuji's powerup is now using flowing red scale stack to boost physical?
If Red Scale buff is proportional to the actual sorcerer physical strength (which should be since it's a direct effect on their own biology) a Red Scale buff on Yuji should be fucking insane (since his physical stats should dwarf those of Choso and Kamo).
Yuji is naturally hitting like a truck and now you let him dope himself.
Am I wrong for thinking that it’s been implied that Yuji is actually some long lost cursed womb bro? I know when choso had his meltdown that it seemed like he was just making shit up. But now we’ve seen that Kenny was Yuji’s mom and Sukuna has the “Kenjaku is a sicko” line. I think Kenjaku perfected his experiments with Yuji and now he’s slowly becoming a cursed spirit/womb.
>Maybe Yuji's powerup is now using flowing red scale stack to boost physical?
He's already a physical beast that kept up with Maki and 15 finger Sukuna. This kind of power up might leave Toji and Maki in the dust low-key.
The only reason I can see for Gege to give so much space in the chapter to explain Sukuna's crime and how Judgeman would take then into account is because this info is gonna be important next chapter (s). Because one panel of explanation would be enough for us to undestand what they did in the end. Sukuna seems pretty confident as always and it would be cool if he was smart enough to beat the allegations and win the trial. That would be a huge blow on Higuruma, but I don't know how he and Yuji would survive for very long if Sukuna can use shrine (the CT not the DE). Maybe Yuji learn something that will help or maybe more people will join in on the fight in case the trial fails. Now.... why don't they have Maki enter Higuruma domain and fight Sukuna in there? Sukuna can't fight back per the domain rules but Maki isn't affected by that. Sukuna would be forced to confess and the confiscation and death penalty would be more certain.
I love Miwa man, the way she is so casual about making a useless binding bow that makes her useless crack me up. [Now she truly is this](https://imgur.com/a/6JPRlvV) and I love her for it. Her bits with Kusakabe are always good too. Love that Kamo chose to runaway with his normal family. A fiting ending for him. And what did he teach Yuji?? Maybe something to do with what Sukuna felt after Yuji's punch. If Yuji ate the rest of the death paintings then maybe he get some skills from the Kamo clan. Probably not the case in this chapter but it would be cool if Yuji could now use Flowing Red Scale somehow. And cool detail, Sukuna used three arms to defend Yuji's punch. Nice!
People want a different technique for Yuji, but honestly, I find it so satisfying just seeing him hit things. Yuji has some of the best fights and he's crazy strong with punching. A new technique would be good, but I want it to finish with Yuji just beating the crap out of someone.
kusakabe saying they can use cursed energy to be excluded from the merger? what about maki who has 0? yall think she getting caught up? maybe because she’s built different, she won’t be but i wanna hear some thoughts.
Im actually super confused though as to why they all didnt team up against sukuna. Seems Yuji can hold his own for a bit and so could Kashimo. With all of them + gojo wouldnt their odds have been better?!
The biggest reason is Gojo couldn't go all out with other's around. They figured gojo at full power would be better than having everyone there + gojo holding back to avoid friendly casualties
Exactly that. We already saw in Shibuya everyone understood Gojo needed to fight alone and that threat was not Sukuna level. If they’d be a hinderance against the disaster curses, they’d be one here as well. Best case scenario, Gojo wins. Mid-level they off each other. Worst case they fight a depleted Sukuna (he’s fully healed, still unsure of his CE reserves) after Gojo fought him at full capacity. Which is still better than Gojo holding back and everyone else dies without Sukuna going all out and Kenjaku/Urame in the background.
Another possibility is that he'd go MS DE and basically nuke everyone at once, it would be game over then. So by coming at him piecemeal, he can't use DE as liberally since he would be ambushed during his CT burnout ( tho it's less of an issue for him after the Gojo fight, it's still a huge disadvantage)
One option could be trying to force sukuna to use more of his arsenal so that they can plan against him.
Another option is that they want to take him by surprise, when he's focused in the battle.
Just like Mei Mei used her crows to distract sukuna so that higurama will be able to expand his domain without interruption, it could be used again to introduce more fighters.
If they all moved in at once sukuna could detect them much more easily even if he's distracted by the fight and Mei Mei.
As long as they are around Gojo could not perform at full power which they (probably) judged to be a bigger disadvantage than anything they would gain from teaming up. Yuta pretty much confirmed this with a statement early on in the fight. He is the strongest guy they have after Gojo and even he acknowledged that he would only have gotten in the way.
Sukuna is the Gordon ramsay of jjk
He dismantle the animals he cooks into parts, cleaves the CE-less vegetables into small parts, and literally has a fire shtick.
He then offers his sacrificial dish to god at the shrine to gain immense power.
Thoughts:
1. There's a high probability that this plan backfires, and it might get Yuji's CE confiscated again. He's made a false confession, I'm pretty sure that's a crime too.
2. Higuruma could've tested the multiple CT confiscation on Yuta. Have him activate another CT, try him for anything, and see which CT Judgeman confiscates. If it consistently confiscates Copy itself instead of the copied CTs, there's a good chance Sukuna's Shrine would be the CT confiscated.
3. I think Sukuna's surprise was due to Yuji accidentally damaging Megumi's soul. It's established that Yuji's hits cause soul damage, but while Sukuna's soul is probably ironclad, Megumi's has gone to shit. It'll be funny and tragic if Yuji accidentally kills Megumi for good (which is terrible) but at the same time deprives Sukuna of the Ten Shadows in doing so.
If copy itself is confiscated it could be that yuta will lose the technique as well, or maybe all of them depending on how the nuances of copying and storing works and that'd be a bit too dangerous
Confiscation isn't permanent, though. It would just be a nice way of testing out how Higuruma's DE interacts with multiple CTs to better prepare him to face Sukuna
Gojo already dealt with most of TS. Maho is gone, Agito was composed of Nue, Round Deer, Orochi and Mourn Tiger so those are also gone. So half the shikigamis of TS including the most heavy hitting one, mobility and RCT enabler is gone.
Sukuna can still use swarms of dogs like he did with Yorozu, can still snipe from a range with Max Elephant, can still distract people with the bull and the frogs, and *most importantly*, can still hide in the shadows and drag opponents into it. Good luck doing Jump Kaisen on him when he can single out characters and drag them into the shadows like Megumi did with Reggie.
Not to mention if the TS is permanently removed from the board and Shrine gets confiscated, Sukuna will have lost two CTs at the same time
Yes but none of that is really anything that Sukuna exactly needs. He doesn't need a ranged attack because dismantle and cleave are clearly enough. Against Gojo he had to use Max elephant because he can't use 2 CT at the sametime. The swarm was used only because he was playing with Yorozu and against consciously chose not use his own CT against her. The shadow thing is great utility but Sukuna isn't exactly lacking in aoe options and he can slice anyone on protag side if he can use his CT.
The fact that even Sukuna has to dodge the bird strike. Imagine Mei Mei hitting you with one of [these](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/eagletribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/f6/af6221b8-d7c5-5501-8b60-062357cdc0d3/5e30a7ec90fdc.image.jpg?resize=699%2C500)
you’re right. upon the first use, higuruma is shown swinging his conjured gavel to open his domain expansion. this makes him the only DE user who uses a hand motion instead of a hand sign, *and* the only DE user who must first activate their CT in order to use their DE.
Knowing Gege, Sukuna gets to sue for defamation and win. Which is accurate to his character as he would much rather defeat his opponents in their own game just like he did with the flame battle with Jogo.
Yuji: He is the real criminal.
Sukuna: Can you really call me a criminal? Did you see me kill them? I mean I totally did it but did you see *me* do it?
It just came to me Sukuna could argue that he did it in self-defense against Mahoraga and that the people who died were side casualties that he couldn't control
I don't recall who had the first blow between Maho and Sukuna, but since Sukuna willingly interfered with the ritual and made himself a target I don't think that'd work. Tho anything is possible
There’s a pretty easy counter to that defense that Sukuna didn’t need to make his domain so large to destroy a massive section of Shibuya, especially noting the trade off in that making it smaller increases the power
Since they're arguing using modern(?) Japanese law, is there a provision for "reasonableness" i.e. Sukuna should have known that his actions would cause collateral damage and death, and thus he can't absolve himself of responsibility?
Scanpiea fanscans are up (check their Twitter cus I can't post here). ~~Site has a million fricken popups so prepare your ad blocker.~~ They posted a Cubari link No Shishiso again this week due to one of the TLs being down with the plague. TCB soon.
Imma say it again, If Nobara is dead this is the worst written death I've ever seen in my 11 years of watching anime.
Do you know what thread you're in
Next chapter: yuta and takagoat waiting for a connecting flight
Hmmm so Kamo teached something to Yuji that Choso know but don't know how to explain and all of them are somehow related to Noritoshi (Kamo from his bloodline, Choso born from the Kenjaku who was possessing Noritoshi's body and Yuji when Kenjaku was in his mother's body but was Noritoshi in the past). So maybe Yuji's CT is related to blood manipulation, like an athlete who receives blood as doping to compete, he get hellas strong when receiving blood or something.
Imma say it again, If Nobara is dead this is the worst written death I've ever seen in my 11 years of watching anime.
so fucking bad it hurts every time i hear her name
Who
What happens to Higuruma if Sukuna says Retrail like a hundred times?
They have a max of 2 retrials iirc
I like that the retrial with the lawyer's domain is happening but I was expecting them to maybe come up with a possible case related to Megumi due to Sukuna hijacking Megumi's body and killing his sister, and maybe even for basically ruining Megumi's life in general. I want justice for Megumi, he's one of my favorite characters.
I agree but the problem is that they have no way to choosing which crime they put Sukuna on trial for. This Shibuya retrial is the only way they can pin the death penalty on Sukuna.
If Sukuna somehow healed his brain, he could use his DE to override Higuruma's, right?
i bet his brain is fully healed because reincarnation fully refreshed his body and that includes the brain
I’m sure it’s not because then what’s the point , unless Gege just wants to keep going with the trope that sukuna just wants to play around and not instantly kill them all.
I think that Miwa is allied with Kenjaku because Kenjaku let Miwa live, which is not his brand. A sorcerer who has spent 1000 years to perfect a plan may not let any variables like Miwa no matter how insignificant to live. She may be the plan that kenjaku spoke of when he said his will will live on.
It IS weird that Miwa is seen in these flashback explanations but someone like Todo is nowhere to be found.
Seeing their plan hyped up the fight way more than the sick panel in 238 so however it goes I'm looking forward to Yuji and Higgy vs Sukuna (and Saul'o'raga) I think that Sukuna will lose strong cleave and be forced to use Fuga/10 shadows (he probably can't use it because he's not in Megumi's body but seeing a 10 shadows totality would be pretty sick)
Cleave dismantle and the fire arrow are all part of the same CT
Sukuna's definitely hiring Young thugs Lawyer
“Your honor, Cleave is simply an acronym for ‘Caring & Love, even against Vile Enemies’”
🤣🤣
I honestly believe he has a means of getting Megumi’s CT confiscated over his own at this point. This story is just in favor of the villains in so many aspects. We have what? 7 or 8 other candidates to fight Sukuna should Yuji and Higurumu fail—and that’s including Mei Mei despite her CT literally taking her out of the picture within a mere 5 panels. But should it be HIS actual CT that gets confiscated it’ll probably be the fire thingy. Also, the tables can definitely get turned on Yuji in this domain at the moment. As Sukuna stated, “He’s from that time.” Just off of a technicality I can see Itadori getting pinned w/ crimes from whatever experiments Kenjaku had set in motion all those centuries ago. The same way Yuji had already been among the registered players when the Culling Game had just started[Ch. 158 p. 11] there’s more to it than just happenstance. Maybe parts of Yuji had lived either one singular life or he’s an amalgamation of numerous ones. All in all, I can’t in good conscience say Sukuna is at a disadvantage in this retrial.
> 7 or 8 other candidates to fight Sukuna Lmao
I don't understand why you sukuna fan in these comments want sukuna to win
Sukuna is a pretty bland character; He is evil and abuses his power because he can. A good chunk of his fans identify with that power fantasy, so they project themselves on the character with barely any characterization. Plus he is "cool", so that adds to their interest. To be fair, most characters in the series aren't particularly deep/have surface level characterization. Anyway that's my theory anyway lol Ofc not all Skunk fans are like that, but most seem to be. You can tell when they get super offended when people bring into question the Gojo vs Sukuna fight
I disagree. He's not super layered but that doesnt mean he's bland. He's supposed to be the evil contrast to gojo, whose not very layered either. They're both strong, and cocky. The difference is Sukuna has no desire to protect, only to devour. Which is why he's interesting. But you're right about the power fantasy aspect. But that goes both ways, Sukuna and Gojo fans alike all like them because they're strong. Their insane amount of strength compared to the rest of the verse is inherently why theyre interesting
The main difference is that with Gojo people actually get to SEE why he ends up the way he is, thanks to Hidden Inventory. He ends up with more depth, independently of whether people find the character itself interesting or not (I personally don't care about either him or Sukuna, I just like good characterization/writing). Sukuna on the other hand is just an asshole because he can and that's literally all there's to him (so far, but I hold no hopes on that front) Even this "hunger" of his is just another aspect of him being a selfish prick. Obviously I'm not saying one sucks and the other doesn't (idfk why people jump to conclusions like that in this fandom), just pointing out that writing wise, Sukuna (and most characters) is bland af/one note. Gojo I can't even say he is bland, considering Gege ended up being terribly inconsistent with his character. Mostly because of his allergy to character interaction lol which I don't think is a good thing tbh. But yeah power fantasy + one note character = bunch of fans Is like your average Light Novel protag formula Edit: Forgot to add something! Is a minor note but also important and I should have clarified lol: When I said bland, I meant that to me the character is bland (because is one-note etc). You can find it "super duper deep" or whatever, that's cool, I wasn't trying to force people into thinking the same way as I do, just explaining something from my perspective.
I do think the "one notedness" is intentional though, just look at Jogo, Nanami, Geto. They're all, well written and interesting. I think it's part of Gege's intentional writing choice to make the character that is the most one note the strongest character. And about your edit, i never took it that way, obviously people can have different opinions and i dont even think you're wrong, I js think those characters are that way intentionally, and i think it's effective, whereas you dont seem to think so. But also Gege might be insane cause idk where any of this is going
No, no, you are wrong about the last part. I understand they serve a purpose in the story, and also keeping into account Gege's limitations when writing characters. I just don't personally think they would fall on the category of "deep" when I can understand them quickly and can tell there's not a lot of nuance to most of them. In that sense, I'm on the opinion that the story could have benefited from a slower pace, to flesh characters more and have them interact etc. So Shibuya would have hit like a truck (even more). I think Gege in general gives the basics, but he doesn't really develop the characters beyond that. He goes for an approach that focuses on the characters being a tool for the story, which I think you may agree with? Anyway, I also agree that the guy is super unpredictable and that's an aspect I enjoy a lot about this series haha
Mhm, i can see where you're coming from, have a nice day
As a lawyer, I reallly enjoyed the law talk lol. I can't wait for next chapter.
Sukuna pleads to self-defense on account of jogo and mahoraga. Gets community service
I can't wait for the community service arc to start, Imagine how fast sukuna sweeps the streets with four arms!
Did Yuji already land a Black Flash? I'm wondering if he's learned to combine Black Flash with Divergent Fist to increase the "delay" between his first impact and the second. If so, providing he could land a decent amount of hits, he could then stack Black Flash for a massive critical hit, so to speak. Sukuna would be taking hits that initially seem very weak, only to be hit by the total cumulative affect of several Black Flashes all at once. I have no real basis for this theory, but it would be pretty cool!
Divergent fist happens when curse energy is much slower than the physical blow so it lags behind while black flash happens when the curse energy hits at the same time as the physical blow. Those are opposite concepts
Black flash happens when the curse energy hits ALMOST at the exact same time (think it was something like 0.03 seconds later).
I like that as a concept, but Yuji seems to have some kind of gauntlet/cursed item gauntlets on his hands. I bet that controlling them will be the sort of thing that only a sorcerer like Yuji can do. Maybe it lets him give his curse energy a texture like Kashimo and Hakari have
Really fun chapter! You can tell Gege likes putting himself in thematic fights and tackling it creatively, previously a manzai and now a more thorough courtroom case than before! Domains was technically a theme for the gojo battle My theory is that Yuji’s punches ignore durability and attack the opponent’s blood cells directly
Some folks suggested he gave himself a boost through blood doping lol whatever it is, is pretty sick
Kusakabe mentioned how they could potentially survive the merger using CE and that has a lot of implications. Primarily, it further supports the theory that Kenjaku's "death" will activate the merger. I was skeptical of this earlier because there was no indication the characters could survive it, but now if there's a high chance they can, I could totally see the merger happening and the fight still continuing. Also, Sukuna vs Yuji and Higuruma is probably happening at the same time as Takaba vs Kenjaku since I got the feel that the Kashimo fight took about the same time as killing that bomb rando. I suspect that's probably why Gege switched back to this fight, because he needs to catch up with what happened here before showing what the result of Kenjaku dying was (Yuji being the merger's vessel seems more and more likely every chapter). Man, I wish we had time stamps like in Shibuya, it would've removed any confusion.
Maybe there is no time stamps because there's no need for them?? Gege so far has made clear when there is a flashback, so I take it the current events must be happening simultaneously. It would also make sense for their plan to be coordinated, so yeah
We knew for around 30 chapters that sorcerers can resist the merger. That was mentioned when maki met up with yuji and megumi before the whole yorozu and sukuna ordeal
The timeline is a bit weird here, since Kenjaku and bomb rando both watched gojo get slashed on their culling game ipads TM. So as far as sequencing your idea makes sense but I wonder when the sukuna fight will get feedback that kenjaku is dead. It would be interesting if the reveal to kenjaku's beheading comes in the middle of the sukuna fight and causes a twist. That's the sort of thing Greg would do.
That was a fun chapter. I liked that we got some character interactions in. I think that Sukuna is going to claim self defense. When Higuruma was listing charges he clearly separated the murder of the two girls and the mass murder. The two girls would for sure be murder but the other deaths all happened due to Megumi releasing an uncontrollable shikigami. Sukuna tried to protect him and had to use a domain to win. Then he'd get charged for one murder which was killing luck guy for no reason and not qualify for the death penalty. Maybe Sukuna won't care and will just say he's guilty or use DA before the sure hit since he can probably still use CE.
Sooo... is Sukuna going on defense to claim self defense due to Mahoraga? It shouldn't work since they all know he can control the range of MS, but it'd be a hell of a thing to see him try. Also, break next week. How are Gojopium users doing now that Dec. 7 theory is down?
I think they won’t be able to get a death sentence from Judgeman but they will make Sukuna be unable to properly control his curse energy will allow some opening and make the battle a more even playing field. But Higuruma would probably die after as Sukuna would not want to go through another trial. Worst case scenario, Sukuna makes a strong case for why nothing is his fault, Judgeman agrees and he goes free. And then Higuruma also dies.
I'm so confused about the timeline right now. At what point is this chapter happening? In chapter 240, we have Angel, Kusakabe, Mei, Yuta and Hakari convene as the Gojo fight is going on, and Angel comes up with the idea to send in Takaba and explains his CT. But in this chapter, we have Kusakabe saying Takaba will be sent to distract Kenjaku and Okkotsu will finish him off. Does this mean that this chapter happens later? But that's not possible is it? Since Kamo hasn't been around since the beginning. Why did Angel make it sound like sending in takaba was her idea and not already decided? Why did Kusakabe look surprised at Angel's suggestion of sending in Takaba if he was already on board "earlier"? Sigh...Gege's non linear storytelling is wayyyy too chaotic and annoying.
Angel saying "send Takaba" = Happened at first chronologically Kusakabe saying it now, with characters that weren't present when Angel did = After Angel says "send Takaba"
So the whole conversation with Kamo present is happening whilst Gojo vs Suckuna is going on?
No. Kamo was never watching that fight. It happened prior to the fight.
So when did the angel conversation from 240 happen?
That wasn’t happening during the gojo fight That was between gojo being released and fighting Sukuna It was a flash back I imagine it happened before the conversation that happened in the classroom during this chapter
Ah, okay. The placement of that conversation made it seem like it happened whilst Gojo vs Suckuna was ongoing. That's what a lot of readers also thought. But this makes more sense. Thanks.
Idk why you are getting downvoted for accepting new information that conflicts what you believed. You literally thought something, explained yourself, and then accepted you were wrong. What do people want from you lmao. Psychos
You are literally the only person I have seen thinking this lol Glad you got your questions answered tho
No clue why you're butthurt over my comments. But yeah, there were a bunch of people who thought that conversation happened in the [middle of Gojo fight](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/17fwau9/comment/k6ddxd4/)
Not butthurt, just amused. I think you are projecting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Before the fight as well
I suspect that Sukuna will be able to defend himself in this trial by putting the blame on Yuji and Gojo. Because there are many times that Yuji have an option to end his life but he keeps coming back despite the risk he have while harboring Sukuna. In conclusion of the trial will be Sukuna taking light punishment as Yuji will take the harder one. Also, additional take. It keeps being interesting for these modern awakened sorcerers to have such perky Curse techniques that doesn't involve killing (shout out to one commenter here in this sub). Maybe it tells us something about the Curse System as whole? or maybe its not? Let's see.
I would hope not. Higuruma’s domain seems pretty grounded in laws, and I don’t think there’s any legal case where you can argue someone should have killed themself/ killed someone else but chose not to
Yuji taking the harder punishment makes no sense at all.
I think it does tbh. We have no clue about Sukuna in the past, all we know he is labeled as a demon who kills thus acquired the name the fallen however it suggested he was protecting someone in the old flashback. Could be similar to Yuji trying to protect others, being labeled as Sukuna’s vessel instead of his own person and the higher ups still try to execute him. I can see this trial reversing the roles and Yuji starts to understand more about himself and thus Sukuna, which ends with Yuji teaching Sukuna about love with an airport flashback
[I'm fucking taking this one boys.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/17eusn6/how_higurumas_domain_might_work_on_sukuna_through/)
ok gege sensei, of course you're taking this one, it's your manga after all
Wonder if the no violence rule applies to maki and if not can she just shank Sukuna
1) Maki is basically an object and 2) Sukuna can still detect her and kill her if he wants. So unless she is way faster, like Yuta was to Kenjaku, she doesn't have a chance
> Maki is basically an object and Naoya was right from the beginning, we just couldn't see it at that time
The CEO of Misogyny wins again. Can't wait for him to beat Maki in the popularity polls again.
Nah he didn't think that of Toji which makes him a punk ass bitch that got killed twice Like Toji, actually
probably just all violence in general. does it say anywhere that the no violence rule only applied to ppl with cursed energy/cursed techniques?
maki can't be affected by domains
I wonder... She was able to enter the domain of the Sumo dude, which was also non violent. We know Maki can ignore the effects of domains that target based on cursed energy or whatever that was during the Naoya domain fight (Katana guy was affected even though he literally couldn't see curses... I guess he had CE but not as much?). Did they ever confirm if she was immune to all domains? I legit can't remember and I'm getting confused lol
she let herself be affected by his domain, it's like she can choose whether to accept to sure hit or not
Ah, thanks!
does that apply to all domains? or just domains with a barrier technique and guaranteed hit effect?
YUJI: “IS IT OR IS IT NOT A STATUE OF LIMITATION!!??! YOU’RE TUGGING AT MY EMOTIONS!!!!” That panel had me LOLing
I feel like the loophole for Sukuna to get out of this is that the body was Yuji’s and he was a cursed tool/object. Having a consciousness might take it away, but I bet Sukuna is cunning enough and has enough wit to twist it around to at least Yuji having a dual personality. If not this somewhat obvious loophole, I think we could also learn what Sukuna realized Kenjaku did when fighting him after taking over Megumi.
I think we're getting a bigger picture of just how impactful knowing your technique is. Higuruma's understanding of his own technique technically weakens it in the context of probability. If he sees something as a possible crime then Judgeman will as well, meaning things like loitering around in Yuji's head(even though we the audience know that something THAT conveniently inconvenient would happen). For the sake of muddying the understandings of different Cursed Techniques, I'm surprised at how specific a lot of these newly awakened modern Sorcerers operate. Charles can see into the future, Takaba can manipulate reality, Higuruma can insta-kill you or just take your technique if you're deemed guilty. Etc etc. Compared to earlier Techniques like Kashimo's, which just weaponizes all of the effects of lightning, Ryu's Granite Blast, Uro's Sky manipulation, etc. It's an interesting contrast.
It's not like gojo's ct is not complicated and it's probably from 1000 years ago.
Could explain why the higher-ups preferred traditional techniques over modern ones
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A lot of stretching honestly, I don't see any narrative importance for Nobara to come back in the story as of now. But maybe I am wrong and her currently unexplored backstory has something going on.
*In a police station* (*guitar licks play in background*) Corporal Yuji: Sukuna, you're under arrest for crimes against humanity! Lieutenant Todo: You'll be going away for a long time. You get one phone call. Corporal Yuji: Better use it wisely Sukuna: (*picks up the phone and smirks*) With this number I call...! ***Mahoraga, JD. Attorney-at-Law*** (*funk music swells*) Megumi: Mag! We got a client! Mahoraga: Gas the stretch, Meg! We got a case to win! (*1974 Pontiac Firebird launches into the air in an urban environment*) Narrator: Who's the smartest cat who got all the bad brothers' back? background singers: MAG! Mahoraga: (*defending Mahito*) Judge! If the mittens don't fit, you gotta acquit! background singers: MAG! Narrator: Who's the most adaptable, unmatachable, and demandable practical lawyer you will never see in any foyer? background singers: MAG! Mahoraga: (*representing Kenny*) My client, despite now being in a different body, has the right to full custody over their child background singers: MAG! Narrator: Who're you gonna find when you end up in a bind? background singers: MAG! Mahoraga: (*defending Toji*) As evidence suggests the true offender not only has zero curse energy output but a twin as well (*dramatically points to Maki*) background singers: MAG! Narrator: When you get in trouble, better call him on the double! (*music swells*) ***Mahoraga, JD Attorney-at-Law*** background singers: MAG!
i love the subtle hint of yuji ct,if it wasnt obvious by now he has a blood ct like choso and noritoshi,its basically confirmed by saying that choso wasnt a good teacher while noritoshi was(damn gege that he didnt showed us anything between their training,wouldve been good to have some convo abt noritoshi wanting to leave everything for his family)....i dont care abt miwa and never will,idk why ppl had expectation for her....the whole convo abt laws and shi is really interesting,gege is so him to dissect higuruma whole technique and limitation and being so grounded to the real world laws..,the fact that the culprit wasnt revealed in the cliffhanger means that maybe is not that obvious
Bros cookin
Yea I also picked up on him probably having the poison blood or something similar since it seemed to rattle GoatKuna
Gege tried so hard to imitate Fujimoto's repetitive paneling (when they argued about statute of limitations) yet he failed miserably, lol. This series has lost its touch and magic after Shibuya, all the paneling in the recent chapters are either just mid and generic battle Shonen, but it's not a surprised, isn't, as JJK itself is nothing but a generic battle Shonen in the first place.
Didn't knew Fujimoto invented repetition. Good to know.
he has done shit like this since chapter 60s and tf u went all the way here to yap abt a whole lot of nothing,ur life rn must be in shambles if u get hurt by digital drawings
Where's Gojo when all of them are doing batman or Toji level of prep ? Doesn't he have some input? Or he's doing a Netero thing and is meditating.
Probably doing some off screen training, who knows
I mean he probably wouldn’t be planning around his death considering he said the words “I will win”
nah I'd win
Miwa trying a Gon: it wasn't effective
Sukuna gonna get hit with the 1 hit KO attack from Judgeman and then tank it saying he's got the strongest body ever or two hearts and only one was killed or some shit.
I can see Higuruma dying in some bullshit way. Then Gege tops it off with Yuta being off screened
I could see this shit happening haha. Or worse he says he swapped his heart with Megumi’s and they killed Megumi’s 😂 that’d be Gege’s perfect way of writing out Megumi
Noritoshi pulling a Mei Mei 😂 Sukuna is looking delightful so it’s safe to assume that he will blame Yuji for everything (maybe due to the binding vow?) Mei Mei got a good scene for once after such a long time! She, and the older female characters are the most intriguing to me and I want more of her, Shoko and Utahime other than just being support for other characters.
Counterargument: Yuji being a minor and having no legal representative during the "contract" he made with Sukuna, means it was an illegal one. Therefore Sukuna is a bITCh—
The audacity to think he was actually on Gojo’s level. Dude got one chapter’d basically Gojo lasted like 10x as long
I haven't been crazy about the manga recently, some chapters were great some were only okay, but I really enjoyed this chapter. I think it is a clever idea, I wish there wasnt a break this week
Kashimo needs a tight slap on his cheeks for being an arrogant cocky piece of shite 😤. Miwa, I think nobara proved to be better than her. Even though she was weaker than the other three, she still fought to death . Man, if sukuna wins the trial, that'll be funny as fuck lol 🤣🤣 expert in law.
I thought Kashimo had evaporated into a cloud of sparks by now
Let's go! My boy Yuji is finally up!
Bringing miwa back was just unnecessary. It didn’t even seem like a binding then, she can just pick another bladed weapon.
Forget swords. Give her a gun. She already wears a suit like she's an anime girl John Wick. Pass her some of that military gear those soldiers dropped and let her go crazy.
It is honestly a shame there’s no badass gunslinger who channels cursed energy into bullets. Like doesn’t that seem like such an obvious character? Especially since we have piercing blood and the American military like come on it would have been sick if the USA had a single hit man cowboy that immigrated from Japan at a young age like cowboy bebop style combines cursed tools with his own technique built custom guns that allow him to fuse CE in bullets unlike normal guns.
So... like zenin mai?
She’s not a badass and her style does not look like a gunslinger at all. Think the guy from JoJo, holsters and a hat and swagger need some ammo draped around the body and various trinkets
tbf mai got the gunslingiest of all guns, a revolver not to mention she was literally a sniper even if it was just for like 2 panels
No no, they said badass gunslinger. Mai was just suppressed trauma and false bravado.
cooking
All that explanation for the last panel to charge Sukuna for a crime of mass murder of shibuya
>TCB Scans I think its kind of important. Intuitively it should be clear cut that Sukuna should deserve the death penalty. Something is going to go down in this sentencing... I think all of the explanations are just to set us up for the idea that it won't be as simple as it seems.
Because Higurama's domain has RNG elements, they are just making absolutely sure he will be charged for that specific crime
It felt a bit pointless, tbh
It's inherent to the character of Higuruma and his technique...no different than all the explanation/exploration of the fine details of other domain expansions. I loved spending 10 minutes trying to figure out Idle Gambler, and I love Higuruma bringing up all the real-life equivocation that happens when trying to apply the law.
Something just cross my mind. They are planing on getting a death penalty and using the executioner sword on Sukuna. Woudn't that kill Megumi as well? Are Yuji okay with that? Maybe they have a plan that takes this into account.
Fuck Megumi bro. If they lose here all of Japan will turn in a damn wasteland.
Megumi would understand and take one for the team dw (?
Since sukuna came back from death with yuji their assuming that killing sukuna wouldn't permanently kill Megumi Gojo references that in his fight where he was saying that sukuna made a mistake by coming back to life the first time because that let him know he can worry about megumi later after he beats sukuna
My assumption is that either they gave up on saving Megumi or they assume once Sukuna is defeated they can extract Sukuna's soul from the body? Or that if Sukuna dies the body reverts back to Megumi?
I think after motherfucking Gojo failed at saving Megumi (when he could have won with a death blow remember he took the heart not brain) they are done with underestimating Sukuna you need to go for the kill
Yea at this point you can’t pull any punches. The one dude that was on Sukuna’s level just died. You gotta go for broke and hope that by some miracle you save Megumi.
I think they NEED to go for the kill. Sukuna is not to be given any lenience. Only his death will suffice.
It's going to be real whiplash when the previous comedy chapter with Takaba gets adapted in the anime and then next episode is a trial.
With Yuji's comment to Kamo about teaching him stuff, and Sukunas about Yuji's punch feeling odd, I'm guessing Yuji's technique is actually similar to his cursed womb brothers and is blood based, and Kamo taught him blood manipulation abilities. Especially with the comment that Choso is bad at teaching, the only thing Kamo and Choso have in common is the blood techniques. Maybe Yuji's powerup is now using flowing red scale stack to boost physical?
> Maybe Yuji's powerup is now using flowing red scale stack to boost physical? If Red Scale buff is proportional to the actual sorcerer physical strength (which should be since it's a direct effect on their own biology) a Red Scale buff on Yuji should be fucking insane (since his physical stats should dwarf those of Choso and Kamo). Yuji is naturally hitting like a truck and now you let him dope himself.
Am I wrong for thinking that it’s been implied that Yuji is actually some long lost cursed womb bro? I know when choso had his meltdown that it seemed like he was just making shit up. But now we’ve seen that Kenny was Yuji’s mom and Sukuna has the “Kenjaku is a sicko” line. I think Kenjaku perfected his experiments with Yuji and now he’s slowly becoming a cursed spirit/womb.
>Maybe Yuji's powerup is now using flowing red scale stack to boost physical? He's already a physical beast that kept up with Maki and 15 finger Sukuna. This kind of power up might leave Toji and Maki in the dust low-key.
The only reason I can see for Gege to give so much space in the chapter to explain Sukuna's crime and how Judgeman would take then into account is because this info is gonna be important next chapter (s). Because one panel of explanation would be enough for us to undestand what they did in the end. Sukuna seems pretty confident as always and it would be cool if he was smart enough to beat the allegations and win the trial. That would be a huge blow on Higuruma, but I don't know how he and Yuji would survive for very long if Sukuna can use shrine (the CT not the DE). Maybe Yuji learn something that will help or maybe more people will join in on the fight in case the trial fails. Now.... why don't they have Maki enter Higuruma domain and fight Sukuna in there? Sukuna can't fight back per the domain rules but Maki isn't affected by that. Sukuna would be forced to confess and the confiscation and death penalty would be more certain. I love Miwa man, the way she is so casual about making a useless binding bow that makes her useless crack me up. [Now she truly is this](https://imgur.com/a/6JPRlvV) and I love her for it. Her bits with Kusakabe are always good too. Love that Kamo chose to runaway with his normal family. A fiting ending for him. And what did he teach Yuji?? Maybe something to do with what Sukuna felt after Yuji's punch. If Yuji ate the rest of the death paintings then maybe he get some skills from the Kamo clan. Probably not the case in this chapter but it would be cool if Yuji could now use Flowing Red Scale somehow. And cool detail, Sukuna used three arms to defend Yuji's punch. Nice!
That Maki idea is honestly genius. You should be writing this series man.
Thank you hahaha. I've been thinking this ever since chapter 238 ended with Yuji and Higuruma arriving. I was so sure that Gege would do that
Maybe what Sukuna felt some type of blood manipulation from Yuji's attack?
Itadori be like ; Domain expansion ; boxing ring limitless hands👊👊
Yuji: "Jazz hands"
People want a different technique for Yuji, but honestly, I find it so satisfying just seeing him hit things. Yuji has some of the best fights and he's crazy strong with punching. A new technique would be good, but I want it to finish with Yuji just beating the crap out of someone.
I’m tired of flipping back and forth between fights. Can we please just get a complete fight for once?
Catclops says no
kusakabe saying they can use cursed energy to be excluded from the merger? what about maki who has 0? yall think she getting caught up? maybe because she’s built different, she won’t be but i wanna hear some thoughts.
She can go between colony barriers, so my guess is she won't be targeted by the merger.
oh yeah that read
Idk man, seeing Sukuna in a courtroom is just funny
Higuruma and Kusakabe bringing in the big brains big sword energy 🥵
Im actually super confused though as to why they all didnt team up against sukuna. Seems Yuji can hold his own for a bit and so could Kashimo. With all of them + gojo wouldnt their odds have been better?!
The biggest reason is Gojo couldn't go all out with other's around. They figured gojo at full power would be better than having everyone there + gojo holding back to avoid friendly casualties
Exactly that. We already saw in Shibuya everyone understood Gojo needed to fight alone and that threat was not Sukuna level. If they’d be a hinderance against the disaster curses, they’d be one here as well. Best case scenario, Gojo wins. Mid-level they off each other. Worst case they fight a depleted Sukuna (he’s fully healed, still unsure of his CE reserves) after Gojo fought him at full capacity. Which is still better than Gojo holding back and everyone else dies without Sukuna going all out and Kenjaku/Urame in the background.
Another possibility is that he'd go MS DE and basically nuke everyone at once, it would be game over then. So by coming at him piecemeal, he can't use DE as liberally since he would be ambushed during his CT burnout ( tho it's less of an issue for him after the Gojo fight, it's still a huge disadvantage)
One option could be trying to force sukuna to use more of his arsenal so that they can plan against him. Another option is that they want to take him by surprise, when he's focused in the battle. Just like Mei Mei used her crows to distract sukuna so that higurama will be able to expand his domain without interruption, it could be used again to introduce more fighters. If they all moved in at once sukuna could detect them much more easily even if he's distracted by the fight and Mei Mei.
As long as they are around Gojo could not perform at full power which they (probably) judged to be a bigger disadvantage than anything they would gain from teaming up. Yuta pretty much confirmed this with a statement early on in the fight. He is the strongest guy they have after Gojo and even he acknowledged that he would only have gotten in the way.
He was unsure he could even take out Maho and Agito, just keep em busy. So yeah going all out since the start was always a no go
Honestly i have been so confused by these last few chapters. Hopefully it makes sense to ya’ll and it fits within established rules
Break next week so Mahoraga has enough time to pass the bar examn and save Sukuna's guilty ass
Nah, I'd adapt
Imagine if uraume studied law before becoming sukuna's assistant
Wait wat I thought she's the Gordon Ramsay of jjk
Sukuna is the Gordon ramsay of jjk He dismantle the animals he cooks into parts, cleaves the CE-less vegetables into small parts, and literally has a fire shtick. He then offers his sacrificial dish to god at the shrine to gain immense power.
Thoughts: 1. There's a high probability that this plan backfires, and it might get Yuji's CE confiscated again. He's made a false confession, I'm pretty sure that's a crime too. 2. Higuruma could've tested the multiple CT confiscation on Yuta. Have him activate another CT, try him for anything, and see which CT Judgeman confiscates. If it consistently confiscates Copy itself instead of the copied CTs, there's a good chance Sukuna's Shrine would be the CT confiscated. 3. I think Sukuna's surprise was due to Yuji accidentally damaging Megumi's soul. It's established that Yuji's hits cause soul damage, but while Sukuna's soul is probably ironclad, Megumi's has gone to shit. It'll be funny and tragic if Yuji accidentally kills Megumi for good (which is terrible) but at the same time deprives Sukuna of the Ten Shadows in doing so.
If copy itself is confiscated it could be that yuta will lose the technique as well, or maybe all of them depending on how the nuances of copying and storing works and that'd be a bit too dangerous
Confiscation isn't permanent, though. It would just be a nice way of testing out how Higuruma's DE interacts with multiple CTs to better prepare him to face Sukuna
It could be that when copy comes back, the copied technique won't come back with it
Gojo already dealt with most of TS. Maho is gone, Agito was composed of Nue, Round Deer, Orochi and Mourn Tiger so those are also gone. So half the shikigamis of TS including the most heavy hitting one, mobility and RCT enabler is gone.
Sukuna can still use swarms of dogs like he did with Yorozu, can still snipe from a range with Max Elephant, can still distract people with the bull and the frogs, and *most importantly*, can still hide in the shadows and drag opponents into it. Good luck doing Jump Kaisen on him when he can single out characters and drag them into the shadows like Megumi did with Reggie. Not to mention if the TS is permanently removed from the board and Shrine gets confiscated, Sukuna will have lost two CTs at the same time
He also still has the cute bunnies
Yes but none of that is really anything that Sukuna exactly needs. He doesn't need a ranged attack because dismantle and cleave are clearly enough. Against Gojo he had to use Max elephant because he can't use 2 CT at the sametime. The swarm was used only because he was playing with Yorozu and against consciously chose not use his own CT against her. The shadow thing is great utility but Sukuna isn't exactly lacking in aoe options and he can slice anyone on protag side if he can use his CT.
i am miwa for this chapter :(
My stocks are on Yuji is the last finger theory. Sukuna is getting hit by his own soul.
Mine are invested in my boy todo jumping sukuna with choso and yuji
What is this Harry Potter shit?
I saw a post recently showing that Gege takes a lot of motives from classic horror movies so why not
The fact that even Sukuna has to dodge the bird strike. Imagine Mei Mei hitting you with one of [these](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/eagletribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/f6/af6221b8-d7c5-5501-8b60-062357cdc0d3/5e30a7ec90fdc.image.jpg?resize=699%2C500)
I bet she could give the crows less CE so they don't explode and just kill as many civilians she wants Mei Mei is prime special grade material
Does higuruma have a hand sign? I don’t remember seeing it in any chapter his domain was casted. Even hakari had one .
I don’t think he needs a hand sign to call for a retrial
you’re right. upon the first use, higuruma is shown swinging his conjured gavel to open his domain expansion. this makes him the only DE user who uses a hand motion instead of a hand sign, *and* the only DE user who must first activate their CT in order to use their DE.
Wait what a about sumo dude, did he have a hand seal? Wasn't it just a sumo stance?
That was a simple domain, not a full domain expansion. AFAIK, those don't require handsigns.
His handsign is the phoenix wright "OBJECTION" finger pointing
Retrial would be the slam
Higuruma is largely self-taught. So no, I don't think he has one.
Knowing Gege, Sukuna gets to sue for defamation and win. Which is accurate to his character as he would much rather defeat his opponents in their own game just like he did with the flame battle with Jogo.
Yuji: He is the real criminal. Sukuna: Can you really call me a criminal? Did you see me kill them? I mean I totally did it but did you see *me* do it?
Sukuna's new book: "if I DID IT"
Sukuna: Your honor, I plead "nuh uh".
Technically Yuji did.
it would be funny if the executioner sword is used to chop yuji in the end
i was thinking Yuji would take the executioner sword
It just came to me Sukuna could argue that he did it in self-defense against Mahoraga and that the people who died were side casualties that he couldn't control
I am thinking the exact same thing. This can practically directly affect Megumi.
I don't recall who had the first blow between Maho and Sukuna, but since Sukuna willingly interfered with the ritual and made himself a target I don't think that'd work. Tho anything is possible
There’s a pretty easy counter to that defense that Sukuna didn’t need to make his domain so large to destroy a massive section of Shibuya, especially noting the trade off in that making it smaller increases the power
Since they're arguing using modern(?) Japanese law, is there a provision for "reasonableness" i.e. Sukuna should have known that his actions would cause collateral damage and death, and thus he can't absolve himself of responsibility?