You Can't Understand Ryomen Sukuna 

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.

Sukuna glaze is not a bug but a feature

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

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.

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.

32 minutes… i am seated

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".

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.

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.

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

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 goat and it's not close man

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since it was revealed that Sukuna was starving in the womb to point he ate his own twin, I've interpreted that as a major reason for Sukuna's selfish personality and insatiable hunger. Based on the cursed womb paintings having blood manipulation just from Kenjaku mixing his blood into the pregnacy, and Sukuna's 4 armed body, its implied that cursed techniques, the body, the soul, etc are very maleable in the womb, able to be shaped in a similar way to what Mahito did with people. I think this could explain Sukuna's nature and sense of self, as well as why his cursed technique is related to eating in the first place. The Innate Domain (which is the basis for the person's Curse Technique) is a mental landscape that reflects a person's mind and soul. And since Sukuna was starving while in the womb, his Innate Domain reflects his hunger and willingness to do anything to eat and survive. Its possible that Sukuna wouldn't have even had a cursed technique at all if it he hadn't been starving while in the womb, and the reason he is so hedonistic and constantly seeking to "eat" his fill is because his soul and mind were shaped in the womb to reflect a starving child. And when you're literally starving, things like morals, ideals, love, and humanity are worthless. The ONLY thing that matters, is getting your next meal.

Crazy thing is, Sukuna has never refered to himself as Ryomen Sukuna. Its almost as if he doesn't have a name

At this point Sukuna already cemented himself as a great shonen villain. He has what he always wanted. All odds against him

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.

The video: Why Sukuna is HIM

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!

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.

another gift for the community, thats what your videos are. Ty for another one!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your jjk commentary is always insightful, thanks for the video.

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.

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

Peak video, peak writing, and peak music choice with Chrono Trigger ost at the end

The Agenda shall be adapted to perfection with this! We will continue to push the Sukuna Agenda till the end of time!

Amazing video as always! Thank you for this glorious meal.

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

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.

Them: "How hard do you glaze Sukuna?" Me:

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.

32 mins of sukuna glaze…. I used to pray for times like this

How are the manga images in this video so high quality ?

This was a great, well thought out video.

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.

lovely video as always man

This video was perfect. Full glaze idc. Seated the entire time listening without being able to take my eyes off. Keep it up.

NINE MINUTES IN AND YOU'RE ALREADY BLOWING MY MIND 🤯

The pursuit of pleasure is, in itself, a source of pleasure for me.

Awesome video :) !

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.

love the music choice

Sukuna being so one dimensional and yet very deep is amazing writing

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

Christ bless you, i just noticed that the narrator boxes are different for Sukuna. Thanks!

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.

Great Video.

Another great video Jjk is Sukuna Kaisen from Chapter 1 people just don't realise it

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 😅

8:45 i only now noticed hes holding his cursed tools in this shot god damn

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.

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)

Subscribed. Great analysis and perspective of the story

Interesting video

The problem with people not understanding him is that they don’t accept statements that gege makes through him as truth, they find everything he does as bullshit and ass pulls and people just don’t want to understand sukunas character or his personality at least when ooo shiny object gojo exists

good vid

I would like to add that sukuna being the main character could be true because authors tend to name their manga’s first chapter after the main characters and wouldn’t you know the first chapter is named after sukuna…

It's not related, but I would love to see you cover Ranger Reject at some point and hear your thoughts on it

Man... Every single time you make a video about jjk I like it more and more... Not a single time I've felt that you make something up, you just reframe something that may catch my attention but couldn't completely process. This might be the most fascinating example of that. The narrator being wrong and asking why broke my brain, I found it weird at the time but it makes so much sense.

Like kashimo said, why did sukuna become fingers and transcend time if he was just killing time until he died

This video has to be top 5 best JJK analysis videos ever🤯

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.

the fact this just made me understand him better

BABE WAKE UP NEW RADMAN W

this is the hardest 30 minute sukuna glaze sesh ever. bravo son, you've donated all of your aura to this anime character. now you are in aura debt for the next 30 years.

I only began following JJK in the last year, but I knew about the general plot of the early chapters. It was funny to me to see villains pop up and the protags get stronger to overcome them while the audience knows the final boss is following the protagonist around the whole time. It set a tension that seemed to get stronger and weaker over time, with people beginning to call Sukuna a fraud. But if he really is the King of Curses and the fear Jogo showed around him was well-deserved, there would have to be an arc where Sukuna has strength feats that establish him as thus. Sukuna kaisen feels well-earned to me. We are going through what people in the Heian era experienced where every competent fighter in the area is drawn in this vortex towards Sukuna and he grinds them all up and spits them out, loving the challenge the whole time. The idea of The Strongest becoming the focal point of the world is taken literally here and I'm all for it.

I enjoyed thx for the vid

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.

Sukuna is the Tanjimoro of JJK fr fr 👍

This is why he’s my favorite villain in all of anime amazing video 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Yes I do he's just a really funny man with four arms and the nightmare fredbear mouth

When you think about it, Sukuna never say his name out loud yet. Says a lot about his character.

Great video Radman

Hands down the best analysis ✌️

more sukuna content 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🔥🔥

Who writes your scripts cause damn haven’t moved for 30 mins

Noice👌🗣

I think gege here does an amazing job of fleshing out a character who in and of itself is a whole paradox. A being who doesn't portray the usual tell tale markers of humanity, yet was born human. Sukuna has a body, a soul, thinks and talks, banters and shares perceptions... Yet his existence could just be explained that as of a creature with higher intelligence. No one in that universe relates to Sukuna, no one understands him on a level he would agree with wholeheartedly, none can even be interpreted as similar. Sure, if you chalk effects felt through action as a power, some can sort of get near him...but sort of near isn't close and those terms are relative. Use of Jujutsu? I mean, it's an inherent truth in this world, some similarities are bound into the physics of whatever universe inhabits it, and all the creatures that reside in it. Just being able to do one of the things Sukuna does not make you similar at a fundamental level. Sukuna is born human and also becomes almost divine, but is neither divine nor human nor an innocuous footnote in time. He shares the human experience with the sorcers he meets but he didn't really experience his time alive as a human. It's almost like, and I'll absolutely say this is opinion... That Yuji is the embodiment of humanity's fight against intangible aspects of our existence. Sukuna, is an intangible aspect of life made physical. Sukuna doesn't make sense so far. But as we learn more, he either will or completely just stay a paradox.

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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?

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.

32 minutes of Sukuna glazing, I'm all for it

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

He is soo Godlike, that it needs a PAIN ost to describe his character🤯

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?”

What was the music in those last 5 minutes? Can't put my finger on it !

11:44 Didn't Sukuna already make a binding vow with Yuji to take over his body?

Amazing introduction. Background music suits the character. The depth information & analysis... True JJK sorcerer 😅

What happened to your Twitter

Yo these videos are making me appreciate at lot more about this manga that would have definitely gone completely under the radar, THE GOAT of video essays unquestionably

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.

Please. Do Kenjaku next!