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Appearance Sukuna is a tall and muscular man with four arms, four eyes, and a large mouth on his stomach. He has short pink-red hair and red eyes, with his two right eyes being angled differently and located on a white flesh plate-like structure on the right side of his face. His body is also covered in tattoos, which manifest on his vessel whenever he is in control and are naturally present in his true form. The tattoos are mostly black lines on his wrists, upper arms, upper body, abdomen, and face. Black dots are also tattooed on each his shoulders. When these tattoos manifest on a vessel with two arms, the lines encircling the upper arms and wrists are doubled, and circles form around the black dots on the shoulders. Sukuna's monstrous appearance led many to describe him as a demon with four arms and two faces.[1] In the past and present, Sukuna only wears a pair of pants, as his unique body prevents him from wearing clothes for the upper body.

Personality Sukuna and Mahito laugh at Yuji Sukuna cruelly laughing at Yuji's suffering. Sukuna is egotistical, hedonistic, psychopathic, and exceptionally sadistic. When he was reincarnated shortly after Yuji ingested his finger, he commented, implying the slaughter of women and children and likening them to maggots crawling around. Due to his immense power, he rarely cares about the consequences of his actions, even if these affect his host. In fact, he frequently taunts and insults Yuji, calling him a brat and even laughing at or enjoying Yuji's despair on multiple occasions. Outwardly, Sukuna claims to have no dreams, goals, or aspirations to work towards, while the jujutsu sorcerers fighting him do and grow stronger because of it. However, Sukuna on one occasion has alluded to feelings of resentment from his upbringing.[5]

Sukuna is an immense glutton, not only for actual food and human flesh, but for fighting and bloodshed. Because of this, he tends to draw out his fights with strong opponents even if it would be wise to finish up his fights quickly.

Sukuna demands Jogo, Mimiko, and Nanako bow to him (Anime) "Holding your heads a little high, don't you think?" Sukuna is aware of his immense power and is quite arrogant about it, brutalizing a finger bearer while being patronizing and proclaiming his superiority over it. For this reason, he is highly dismissive of his opponents and rarely takes them seriously, even explicitly stating he would kill Satoru Gojo to his face. However, these brutish traits are not to be confused for stupidity. Sukuna is highly intelligent and manipulative, taking Yuji's body hostage by tearing out his heart to force him into a binding vow.[6] While in possession of Fushiguro's body, he fooled Hana Kurusu into lowering her guard by pretending his influence was removed from the boy.

Sukuna tells Jogo to stand proud Sukuna tells Jogo to be proud of his strength.

He has also displayed the ability to acknowledge and praise his opponents on multiple occasions.[7][8][9] Primarily seen before his killing of Jogo, Sukuna acknowledged his strength despite having completely overpowered him and told Jogo that he should be proud.[10] In rare cases, Sukuna is capable of forming non-combative relationships, as he had taken in a young Uraume initially to have the child cool his food chilled and cook for him and eventually to be his subordinate.[11]

While he is observative when it comes to jujutsu, he's displayed a lack of interest in the modern world's technologies and foods, glancing at Nanako Hasaba's smart phone used for her technique and refers to it as a phone with a camera, showing that he doesn't pay attention to the modern age aside from jujutsu.[12]

Through Sukuna's conversation with Yuji during their fight after possessing Megumi's body, Sukuna espouses that he likens human beings to insects and admits he is unable to comprehend why the weak cling so desperately to life instead of quietly accepting the suffering that life forces them to endure since the weak should have no right to complain. He also claims that he doesn't understand how a creature that falls apart at a touch can say that it always wants to be happy, which expresses his antipathy and disregard of human emotions and their will to live.[13] It also reveals that Sukuna's perception of life adheres strongly to social darwinism. It is also repeatedly stated that Sukuna has a myopic view on love and does not fully comprehend the value of relationships.[14] Stemming from this mindset, Sukuna is enraged by anyone pitying him or offering him mercy, as he bases his identity on being the strongest and views such acts as considering him weak. However Sukuna's perception of life is rooted in some hypocrisy, as he was willing to further demoralize Fushiguro's faltering will in an openly desperate attempt to live.[15]

Yuji's existence affects Sukuna in a way he can't ignore, no matter his efforts. Due to the nature of his initial incarnation within Yuji, Sukuna is unable to disregard how Yuji himself challenges his worldview by being Sukuna's opposite and invalidating his views. Furthermore This fills Sukuna with a hatred that he can't describe, unlike anything he has ever felt.[16] His constant belittlement of Yuji and refusal to consider him a threat in spite of knowing that Yuji is the grandson of Sukuna's reincarnated twin brother exemplifies this.[17] This is compounded when Yuji offers Sukuna one last chance to surrender out of mercy and Sukuna is enraged by the pity Yuji shows him.[18] Even on the verge of death Sukuna could only bring himself to compliment Yuji's attempts at leveling with him as a long standing farce, refusing to accept mercy.[19]

Despite his immense arrogance Sukuna while alive, in death Sukuna is capable of introspection. In the passageway for souls in circulation, Sukuna did not deny Mahito's accusations of lying to himself about his own nature of wanting revenge against those who scorned him in the past. Sukuna even confessed that had he not feared immolation from his own curse, he would have been able to go down less destructive paths.[20] He even appeared to be open to changing his ways if reincarnated and accepted his loss.[21]

Overall Skill Level: Back in the Golden Age of Jujutsu, the Heian Era, Ryomen Sukuna was feared and regarded by awe by all those in his time as the most powerful sorcerer of the time, defeating and killing thousands of jujutsu sorcerers even as they sharpened their skills against him. One of his feats included single-handedly slaughtering both the Sun, Moon, and Stars Squad and the Five Empty Generals, the most elite of the Fujiwara Clan's forces, leaving the authorities of Japan so utterly terrified that they were willing to hold festivities in his honor.[22][23] The impact Sukuna left on history until he died earned him the title of the "Strongest Sorcerer in History", as well as the "King of Curses". His strength is still held in such a high regard that even Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of the modern age, with arrogance levels of confidence and pride in his abilities, acknowledged his strength and that a fight between the two of them would be difficult.

More than living up to his titles, Sukuna possesses vast amounts of cursed energy and equally incredible control over it, with an extraordinary grasp over jujutsu, but he was also not reliant on jujutsu alone, possessing overwhelming physical prowess as well, capable of dispatching almost any opponent without unveiling his true cursed technique.

Megumi vs. Sukuna Sukuna toying with Megumi by evading his attacks. Even at his weakest state upon his incarnation in Yuji's body for most of the time he spent there, due to lacking most of his fingers, Sukuna remained extremely strong, capable of effortlessly dispatching powerful cursed spirits, including the likes of a cursed spirit who had ate his finger, which he easily retrieved from the cursed spirit after completely overpowering it.[24]

While purposefully weakening himself by removing Yuji's heart to ensure Yuji could not switch back with him, Sukuna utterly defeated Megumi Fushiguro, the inheritor of the Zenin Clan's prized Ten Shadows Technique and a prodigious genius who started school as a grade 2 sorcerer with one of the highest potentials in Jujutsu High, to where Megumi admitted how utterly outmatched he was and was more than willing to unveil Mahoraga to defeat him. Sukuna would have killed Megumi had he not been interested in Megumi's unique talents, although before he could fight Megumi's trump card, Yuji managed to regain control of his body.[25]

Sukuna vs. Jogo (Anime) Sukuna easily countering Jogo's relentless assaults. Sought out by Mahito's group under the belief that his revival could ensure their success, with just four fingers, Sukuna demonstrated an overwhelming superiority in power compared to Mahito by being able to resist his Idle Transfiguration completely[26] and effortlessly inflict such a severe injury on Mahito when finally angered too much along with dispelling his Self-Embodiment of Perfection with a single attack.[27] This terrified and intrigued Mahito to where he came to firmly believe that with Sukuna being on such a whole other level, his resurrection would surely bring about the Age of Curses.[28]

Sukuna vs. Mahoraga continued (Anime) Sukuna parries a barrage of punches from Mahoraga. Once Yuji's body had consumed sixteen fingers, Sukuna's overwhelming cursed energy was felt throughout Shibuya when he was awakened, comparable to Gojo's while being overwhelmingly more sinister.[29] With 80% of his strength restored, Sukuna proved capable of overwhelming Jogo, the most powerful cursed spirit in Mahito's group, in a mostly one-sided battle as he easily overpowered the best efforts of his foe, leaving him utterly unable to even land the single hit that would get Sukuna to join him, before killing him with his own speciality of fire.[30][31]

His last act during the Shibuya Incident was to defeat Mahoraga single-handedly, a feat no user of the Ten Shadows Technique and even a member of the Gojo Clan with Limitless and the Six Eyes had done.[32]

Incarnation (受じゅ肉にく, Juniku?):[33] There is a slim chance that Sukuna will incarnate into whoever eats his fingers, gaining a physical, human body in the process. Upon Yuji consuming the first of his twenty fingers, Sukuna immediately came to possess his body, which he used to inhabit.[34] Unlike other incarnated sorcerers, according to the Angel inhabiting Hana Kurusu, Sukuna, after experiencing death, had developed the knowledge to split his soul as cursed objects,[35] which he demonstrated by transforming Yuji's pinky finger into a cursed object and then force-feeding Megumi with it to possess his body.[36]

Metamorphosis: Sukuna can create new eyes and mouths on his vessel, allowing him to see and speak without controlling the body of the host. For example, he made a single eye and fanged mouth on Yuji's left cheek to belittle and taunt him.[37][38]

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: While immensely powerful as a jujutsu sorcerer, Sukuna is also shown to be an extremely skilled and powerful hand-to-hand combatant, using martial arts as his first method of combat before unleashing his jujutsu abilities. Sukuna can unite his cursed technique and his hand-to-hand prowess, making him an extremely difficult opponent to overwhelm in battle.

During his fight with Megumi, he was able to effortlessly overwhelm Megumi in unarmed combat, countering his attacks in close-range with ease before delivering a strong punch that sent him flying. When Yuji attempted to attack him in his innate domain, Sukuna effortlessly countered all of Yuji's attacks before seeing through his attempt to trip him and defeating him with a single kick.[39]

With sixteen fingers, Sukuna easily overpowered Jogo with hand-to-hand combat alone before finally killing him with a single use of his cursed technique. He was later capable of fighting on par with both Yuji and Maki Zenin, both being exceptional unarmed fighters with extraordinary physical ability, deflecting most of their blows and landing a few hits on his own, using hand-to-hand combat.[40]

Immense Strength: In his first appearance, Sukuna was shown to possess immense physical strength despite being in an incomplete state. He could easily defeat a very large cursed spirit with just a simple swipe,[41] and during his fight against Gojo he was able to punch the roof of the school so hard it causes the building to rupture and crack.[42] He easily overpowered the likes of a Finger Bearer, a special-grade curse. When gambling Yuji's life against Megumi, Sukuna managed to fling the sorcerer through several building floors without effort and he easily overpowered and destroyed Megumi's shikigami.[43] He even punched Megumi so hard, the raindrops in that area dispersed. With sixteen of his fingers, Sukuna punched Jogo through buildings and even destroyed the latter's jaw.[44] His blows also had considerable effect on Mahoraga. Upon taking over Megumi's body, he was able to easily pierce through Yuji's gut and send him flying across the city with a single punch, stunning him temporarily.[45]

Immense Speed: Sukuna has repeatedly displayed overwhelming levels of raw physical speed, capable of effortlessly surprising most opponents with the sheer quickness of his movements. With three fingers, Sukuna easily slammed a Finger Bearer to the ground and even cut off its arm without it noticing. He was also able to effortlessly blitz Megumi several times, delivering powerful blows with Megumi barely able to react at all. With sixteen fingers, he easily overwhelmed Jogo and was able to keep up with Mahoraga in their fight. Sukuna was even able to instantly appear in the middle of Atsuya Kusakabe and Panda, both capable sorcerers, with the former being a grade 1 sorcerer. In his fully incarnated form, he was able to outrun Yuji,[46] who could run at speeds of 60.02 km/h (37.3 mph).[47]

Immense Reflexes: In accordance with his agility, Sukuna has incredible reflexes that allow him to easily counter most of his opponents' attacks. He was able to dodge Jogo's Maximum: Meteor seconds before its impact and emerge unscathed,[48] and consistently dodged and countered Mahoraga's blows during their fight.[49]

Immense Durability: Even in Yuji's body, Sukuna can use cursed energy to bolster his host's resilience. Sukuna was punched through five buildings and shown to be completely fine.[50] Sukuna was able to survive a 200% Hollow Technique: Purple during his fight with Satoru Gojo by defending himself at the last second, losing only his hands.[51]

Great Tactical Intellect: Sukuna is an extremely intelligent individual. He has fully grasped the nature of cursed techniques, curses and reverse cursed technique as a whole. Due to that, he is able to quickly deduce the inner workings of cursed techniques after only seeing them once or twice and creating suitable foils to such techniques. He did this against Mahoraga in their fight, and was able to defeat the shikigami after gaining an understanding of its technique.

Sukuna was also able to realize the potential of Megumi's cursed technique just by seeing it once during their short battle and he was able to create a binding vow with Yuji in order to take Megumi's body patiently waiting for the right moment before executing his plan.[52] During his fight with Hana Kurusu, by using Megumi's memories he was able to make Hana think that Megumi was in control of his body and thus when she hugged him he was able to critically injure her.[53][54]

When pushed into desperate situations, Sukuna has demonstrated the intellectual capacity to remain levelheaded and formulate strategies to counter his opponents. After Mahoraga was destroyed and he was severely injured by Hollow Purple,[55] Sukuna made a binding vow that allowed him to bypass the world-cutting slash's conditions and unleash it,[56] killing Gojo when the latter least expected it.[57]

Even when he lost two left hands and suffered seven consecutive Black Flashes from Yuji, which disrupted his connection with Megumi's soul and lowered his cursed energy output and physical control, Sukuna regained his ability to expand his domain without lowering its output or difficulty by improvising several binding vows that included uncertain conditions, instantly turning the tides of the battle by removing all the sorcerers except Yuji from the battlefield.[58]

Cursed Energy Cursed Energy Capacity: True to his title as the King of Curses, Sukuna possesses vast levels of cursed energy, likely the most transcendent throughout history, far surpassing special grade cursed spirits and sorcerers alike. Yuta Okkotsu, a special grade sorcerer who possesses even more cursed energy than Satoru Gojo,[59] states that Sukuna has double the amount of cursed energy that he has or more.[60] Coupled with his efficient usage of cursed energy, Sukuna was able to continuously use his techniques throughout his battles without exhausting himself in the slightest. Even after expanding his domain three times throughout his fight with Gojo, Sukuna's cursed energy reserves were merely lowered to the same level as Yuta's,[61] which was still enough for him to cast domain expansion two more times[62][63] and possibly countless more.[64]

Cursed Energy Manipulation: Sukuna has incredible control over his cursed energy, being extremely proficient in using cursed techniques that require sophisticated manipulation of cursed energy such as domain expansion and reverse cursed technique, and capable of performing both flawlessly and repeatedly without issue. Hajime Kashimo, one of the strongest sorcerers from 400 years ago, was astonished by Sukuna's mastery over his cursed energy, displayed by his ability to seamlessly shift between domain amplification to his innate technique, to where he stated that if not for the Six Eyes, even Satoru Gojo would be no match against Sukuna in utilizing cursed energy.[65] Sukuna's expertise in controlling cursed energy even allows him to survive after his heart was stabbed through, doing so by using cursed energy to keep his heart beating.[66]

Cursed Energy Output: In addition to his immeasurable amounts of cursed energy, Sukuna can output high amounts of cursed energy into his cursed techniques, vastly increasing their effectiveness. When using his Dismantle and Cleave techniques, the slashes can easily slice skyscrapers in half[67] and instantly kill sorcerers by dicing their bodies into pieces. In contrast, Yuta's Cleave was only able to inflict minor cuts on Sukuna's face[68] while Yuji's slash barely cut off Sukuna's leg.[69]

Cursed Energy Reinforcement: Augmenting his already immense physical prowess, Sukuna regularly uses cursed energy to enhance his strength and durability. Most of his aforementioned strength and durability feats can be attributed to his reinforcement technique. By reinforcing his hands with cursed energy, Sukuna was able to tank a direct hit from a Hollow Technique: Purple at 200% output after it traveled about four kilometers, albeit taking enough damage to lose both hands.[70]

Black Flash (黒こく閃せん, Kokusen?): A phenomenon that occurs when the user applies cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit, creating a spatial distortion that causes their cursed energy to flash black and amplifies the destructive power of the strike to the power of 2.5. Sukuna unleashed Black Flash against Maki Zenin during the jujutsu sorcerers' raid on him in Shinjuku, dealing a powerful strike that sent the girl gifted with Heavenly Restriction flying.[71] Sukuna has used Black Flash a total of seven times throughout the battle.[72][73][74][75][76]

Shrine (御み廚づ子し, Mizushi?) is Sukuna's innate technique that allows him to unleash invisible slashes, either at range or through physical contact, to cut down his enemies. It also empowers him to unleash a burning hellfire arrow under certain conditions.

Dismantle Dismantle (解カイ, Kai?) is the user's default slashing attack that can be launched point-blank or at range, and can be used against inanimate objects, cursed spirits, and sorcerers to great effectiveness.[1] To fire Dismantle, the user typically makes a hand gesture at his target, usually pointing, though he can omit this motion.[2] An invisible slash then flies towards the target, cutting them.

Dismantle's slicing power depends on the cursed energy outputted into the technique. With less than ten percent of his output,[3] a barrage of Sukuna's Dismantle only left bloody gashes on Yuji Itadori's body.[4] At its highest, it was able to cut a skyscraper in half with one slash.[5] Unless a sorcerer bolsters their durability with cursed energy reinforcement or weakens the slashes with Simple Domain or Domain Amplification, Dismantle could easily cut them apart.[6]

Cleave Cleave (捌ハチ, Hachi?) is the second slashing attack that adjusts its power depending on the target's toughness and cursed energy level to cut them down with one attack.[1] Unless used in their domain expansion, the user must make physical contact with the target in order to activate Cleave.[6]

Similar to Dismantle, the cutting power of Cleave also depends on the user's cursed energy output. Both Yuta Okkotsu and Yuji Itadori, who gained access to Shrine through their own means, were only able to deal minor injuries to Sukuna when using Cleave,[12][13] whereas Sukuna's Cleave was able to cut through the cursed energy reinforcement of Ryu Ishigori, a Culling Game player with exceptional cursed energy output.[14]

Spiderweb Main Article: Spiderweb Spiderweb (蜘く蛛もの糸いと, Kumo no Ito?) is an extension technique of Cleave that is applied to the inorganic environment. By placing a hand on the ground and activating Spiderweb, the technique adjusts its power based on the surroundings' toughness, cutting apart the ground in the pattern of a spiderweb and collapsing it in one fell swoop.[15]

Divine Flame Divine Flame (竈カミノ, Kamino?, lit. "Hearth/Stove/Furnace") is a cursed technique that can only be used after the user performs Dismantle and Cleave.[16] It allows him to create and manipulate flames for long-range attacks by forming them into the shape of an arrow before launching it.[17][18]

To activate this technique, the user verbally utters the technique's name followed by the command "Open" (開フーガ, Fūga?).[19] During Sukuna's initial usage of Divine Flame against Jogo, its name was censored as "■" in the manga and silenced in the anime.[20] The firepower of the fire arrow completely outclassed a concentrated fire blast from Jogo, a special grade cursed spirit whose defining trait involves extremely destructive pyrokinetic powers, and burned him to death.[21]

Despite its power, Divine Flame lacks speed and has a narrow effective range. To mitigate this weakness, Sukuna imposed a binding vow on himself, restricting him from using Divine Flame against multiple targets unless within his domain. As a result of this binding vow, Malevolent Shrine's cursed technique is expanded, imbuing all pulverized matter within it with the same explosive energy as Divine Flame, which Sukuna contains within the range of his domain by altering the barrier's specification to only allow entry and exit for living creatures. This transforms the dust particles into thermobaric explosives that spread throughout the domain, which are detonated after Divine Flame is unleashed, causing instantaneous high temperatures, shock waves, decompression and intense pressurization.[22]

Slash That Cuts The World Using Mahoraga's second adaptation to Limitless as a model, Sukuna learned to enhance Dismantle by broadening its target area to include space, existence, and the world themselves, transforming the regular slashes into "slashes that cut the world" (世せ界かいを断たつ斬ざん撃げき, Sekai o Tatsu Zangeki?).[7] Using this enhanced version of Dismantle, Sukuna was able to bypass Satoru Gojo's Infinity, an otherwise impenetrable barrier, and finally kill the jujutsu sorcerer by slicing him in half.[8]

When he originally learned it, Sukuna could launch the space-cutting Dismantle by only having to form the hand sign of Enma (閻えん魔ま天てん, Enmaten?), the same two-handed sign needed to cast Malevolent Shrine. However, Sukuna was unable to fulfill this condition after losing a hand to Gojo's Hollow Technique: Purple (prior to returning to his original, four-armed form).[9] In order to bypass the activation condition and unleash the slash that cut Gojo in half, Sukuna imposed a binding vow on himself that would require him to fulfill not one but three conditions for all subsequent world-cutting slashes: (1) to make the necessary hand sign, (2) to recite Dismantle's incantation, and (3) to direct the slash's trajectory with his palm.[10]

The incantation for activating this technique is "Dragon Scales." "Repulsion." "Paired Falling Stars." (〝龍りゅう鱗りん〟〝反はん発ぱつ〟〝番つがいの流りゅう星せい〟, "Ryūrin" "Hanpatsu" "Tsugai no Ryūsei"?).[11]

Malevolent Shrine ( , Fukuma Mizushi?) is Sukuna's domain expansion using Shrine.

The hand signs for Malevolent Shrine. Befitting its name, Malevolent Shrine constructs a disfeatured Buddhist shrine (resembling an oversized zushi, or more vaguely a chinjudō) that has been distorted to instead enshrine demons. Several bovine skulls form the base of the shrine. The hip-and-gable roof has horns emerging from it, two smaller and closed mouths in each gable, and human skulls that hang down from it. The four entrances to the shrine are formed by four large, grotesque mouths, complete with humanlike teeth and tongues.[1][2] Another smaller mouth is present between the two layers of the roof. Four short, tree-like stumps with gnarled branches stand at each corner of the shrine.

In its alternate form, Malevolent Shrine takes a much more gruesome, eldritch appearance. It takes the form of a large mass of flesh, horns and teeth with multiple large eyes that stare in different directions. There are also patches of hair-like appendages throughout its body, along with four large curved horns at the top, two giant humanoid hands at the bottom and a spine-like appendage tapering down from the back.[3]

Malevolent Shrine's power (Anime) Malevolent Shrine's sure-hit effect. Malevolent Shrine's guaranteed-hit ability relentlessly slashes apart anything until nothing but dust remains of what has been caught in the effective range, via Sukuna's two types of slashing attacks: Cleave and Dismantle, which only cease when the domain is disengaged or Sukuna is so badly injured he can not sustain the domain anymore. Sukuna can set which of the two attacks to use against specific types of targets, such as using Dismantle for inanimate objects and Cleave for subjects with cursed energy.[4]

Sukuna has the divine ability to expand his domain without closing the barrier to create a separate space. This creates a binding vow due to allowing an escape route from the domain that enables him to expand the effective range of the guaranteed-hit up to a maximum radius of nearly 200 meters.[5] Furthermore, unlike other domains which operate with an outer shell like Unlimited Void and can be cancelled if the shell is destroyed, Malevolent Shrine cannot be destroyed by any normal means because of the lack of an enclosed barrier. The only way to effectively destroy Malevolent Shrine is to injure Sukuna to the point where he can no longer maintain the domain.[6][7]

Usage Mahoraga overpowered by the effects of Malevolent Shrine (Anime) Malevolent Shrine relentlessly slashing its target. Sukuna is a master of domain expansion and his Malevolent Shrine is equally refined as Satoru Gojo's Unlimited Void, capable of overpowering the vast majority of domains. With the power of only two fingers, Sukuna effortlessly cut a Finger Bearer, a special grade cursed spirit, to pieces immediately after opening Malevolent Shrine. Sukuna only expanded his domain against the Finger Bearer to display "true jujutsu".[8]

Sukuna unleashed Malevolent Shrine in Shibuya during his battle with Mahoraga. In order to overwhelm Mahoraga's adaptation ability and avoid hitting Megumi Fushiguro, Sukuna used his domain to unleash a torrent of slashing attacks over a 140-meter radius, narrowing down its range.[9] He set Malevolent Shrine to target anything within range with cursed energy using Cleave and used Dismantle for inanimate objects. This not only injured Mahoraga, but also massacred numerous civilians and cut off Toge Inumaki's arm as a result.[10]

During his battle with Satoru Gojo, Sukuna expanded his domain a total of three times. As previously mentioned, Malevolent Shrine can equal Unlimited Void in a domain clash, but that is only the case inside a barrier. Malevolent Shrine's range reached beyond Unlimited Void's barrier during the first clash of domains. With a domain's barrier being weak to attacks on its outer shell, Gojo's domain was crushed by Malevolent Shrine's slashing attacks and he was immediately struck by its can't-miss attack.[11]

Later in the fight, Sukuna revealed that he can change the conditions of his domain with a binding vow, such as removing Malevolent Shrine's guaranteed-hit effect within Unlimited Void's effective area and narrowing down its effective range similar to when it was used in Shibuya in exchange for increased power to counter Gojo's Unlimited Void's reinforced outer shell, collapsing it a second time.[12] On the third exchange, due to Gojo also changing his domain's condition in response, both domains collapsed simultaneously after three minutes due to Malevolent Shrine destroying Unlimited Void's barrier from the outside, but Satoru managing to damage Sukuna enough to the point where he can't maintain his domain.[13]

After a brief physical exchange, the two sorcerers expanded their domains at the same time once again. However, the outcome remained the same, and both domains collapsed simultaneously.[14] As Satoru punched Sukuna into a pillar, both fighters activated their domain expansions once more. However, Sukuna activated his less than one-hundredth of a second later due to having to heal his physical body using reverse cursed technique, thus delaying him from restoring his cursed technique. As a result, Unlimited Void was able to briefly immobilize him, allowing Satoru to severely wound him. The injury rendered Sukuna unable to maintain Malevolent Shrine after two minutes and forty seconds, causing it to collapse within Satoru's domain. Without his domain's guaranteed-hit effect negating Satoru's, Sukuna's mind was flooded with infinite yet incomplete information, immobilizing him and forcing him to summon Mahoraga to destroy the domain.[15]

Afterwards, when Satoru attempted to expand his domain a sixth time but failed, Sukuna planned to finish their fight by expanding his own domain and enclosing it with a barrier to prevent Satoru from escaping. However, upon expanding Malevolent Shrine, it immediately collapsed as a result of the damage done to Sukuna's brain by Unlimited Void, which he was subjected to for a total of less than ten seconds. This prevented the King of Curses from using domain expansion for the remainder of his fight with the strongest sorcerer of modern times.[16]

After suffering seven consecutive Black Flashes from Yuji Itadori, Sukuna activated an impromptu Malevolent Shrine as a desperate measure. By changing the hand signs and using a part of his brain undamaged by Unlimited Void, Sukuna was able to unleash Malevolent Shrine with its full effective area and output while being invigorated with the effects of Black Flash by including uncertain conditions and improvised binding vows.[17] Additionally, by not lowering the degree of difficulty for his barrier technique, Sukuna maintained its open-barrier nature in order to capture Maki Zenin, who had no cursed energy. Due to Sukuna's condition, he could only maintain this high-level domain for 99 seconds before it crumbled.[18]

After Yuta Okkotsu returned to the battlefield, having taken over Satoru's body using Kenjaku's cursed technique, Sukuna expanded his domain to clash with Yuta's Unlimited Void.[19] In order to counter the increased durability of Unlimited Void's barrier, Sukuna shrunk the effective range of his domain to only surround the outer shell of Yuta's domain, thereby removing the time limit.[20] Both of their domains simultaneously collapsed after Yuta struck Sukuna with Hollow Technique: Purple, which severely damaged the latter but also destroyed his own domain's barrier.[21]

Kamutoke (pronounced Kamutoke?, VIZ: "Supreme Martial Solution") is a cursed tool wielded by Sukuna. He used the original weapon alongside Hiten during the Heian Era. Yorozu created an exact replica using a binding vow in tandem with her Construction technique.[1]

Description Kamutoke is a small weapon that resembles a tokkosho (a single-bladed vajra), although with Kamutoke's thin, dagger-like blade being on one side only. The central grip section is bordered on either side by a pair of flat hoops that cross at a right angle, thus forming spheres. The weapon holds the ability to summon torrents of electricity that strike the target from above.[1]

Sukuna using Yorozu's replica of Kamutoke. During the Heian period, Sukuna wielded both Kamutoke and Hiten to annihilate the Northern Fujiwara Clan's Sun, Moon and Stars Squad, the Five Empty Generals, as well as the Desshi Pacification Squad made up of the Abe Clan's elite (including the Angel) and the Sugawara Clan's remnants.[2]

A millennium later, Yorozu established a binding vow in her final moments to re-construct Kamutoke with her innate technique.[3][1] Uraume delivered the cursed tool to Sukuna after his fight with Satoru Gojo to use against Hajime Kashimo, via a massive block of ice that fell from the sky.

Sukuna using Kamutoke Sukuna strikes Kashimo with bolts of lightning. Upon retrieving Kamutoke, Sukuna expressed that he felt nostalgic. He used it to hit Kashimo with a torrent of lightning, but it was mostly nullified by Kashimo's innate resistance to electricity.[4] After assuming his true form, Sukuna used Kamutoke's ability as a decoy to close the distance and overpower Kashimo at close range.[5]

Sukuna also used Kamutoke to counter Mei Mei's Bird Strike by killing all her crows with powerful bolts of electricity that shot them down from the sky.[6] The cursed tool was later confiscated by Hiromi Higuruma's Deadly Sentencing, causing it to disappear from Sukuna's grasp.[7] Kamutoke was not returned to Sukuna even after Higuruma's supposed death,[8] suggesting it was permanently confiscated..

Appearance Satoru is a very tall, lean, and muscular man in his late twenties who is considered relatively attractive, mainly due to his facial features. He has snow-white hair and the Six Eyes, which are a vibrant blue color. Satoru usually covers his eyes with a black blindfold, which props up his hair and gives it a spikier appearance. Satoru wears sunglasses and lets his hair down to the base of his neck when sporting a casual look.

While working, Satoru wears a dark blue zip-up jacket with a high collar, which is also fairly broad. He wears matching slim-fit black pants and black dress boots. Before switching over to a simple blindfold, Satoru used to wear bandages over his eyes. Satoru enjoys wearing expensive clothing[6] and has several casual looks he pairs with wearing his sunglasses. As a Tokyo Jujutsu High student, Satoru wore the standard school uniform with his sunglasses before adopting any makeshift blindfold.

During the Shinjuku Showdown Arc, Gojo didn’t wear his blindfold, letting his hair fall and eyes shown. He wore a tight-fitting black shirt, white baggy training pants with a black belt weaved through the waist, and black martial arts slippers, similar to Toji Fushiguro’s attire.

Personality Satoru is a complex individual. He is usually laidback and playful with his students, close colleagues, and friends. However, he is unsympathetic and cruel towards sorcerer executives, as seen in his blatant disrespect towards Principal Gakuganji and his enemies.

Satoru quotes I alone am the honored one (Anime) "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one." Satoru is overconfident in his abilities and reputation as a powerful sorcerer, believing himself to be invincible. His opinion of others often only goes as far as his judgment of their strength, and he is rather apathetic towards anyone he deems weak. Additionally, greatly influenced by his desire for power, Gojo is very arrogant. He believes himself to be the strongest in the world, claiming, during his fight with Toji Fushiguro, that "throughout heaven and earth, [he] alone is the honored one." It is evident during his task of protecting Riko Amanai, one of the few 'weak' people he genuinely grew to show compassion for. However, his regret for her death was negated by his extensive pride and arrogance after learning reverse cursed technique in his following battle against Toji Fushiguro.[7]

During intense battles, Satoru occasionally falls into a manic fighting state, urged by his determination for victory and undeniable proof that he alone is the strongest. His combative style is characterized by his aggressive and domineering attacks while flaunting his mastered techniques to his opponents. Furthermore, in a crisis, he is capable of being cold-blooded. He will prioritize his enemies' destruction over saving innocent people when he believes that the sacrifice is unavoidable. However, this only extends to the people killed by his opponent; he will not do any lasting harm to or kill anyone innocent to gain the upper hand.[8]

Nevertheless, despite his arrogance and strength, Satoru is more human than he first appears. After defeating Toji, Satoru retrieved Riko's corpse with a sorrowful look, showing that although his recent conceited victory temporarily clouded his feelings, he still felt some grief over her death. He sought to kill the Star Religious Group members who were clapping over Riko's death before being stopped by Suguru Geto — who he relied on as a moral compass at that time — from taking any action.[9] Furthermore, Satoru was later left visibly horrified and panicked after learning that Suguru, his "one and only" best friend, had become a murderous curse user. Satoru attempted to reason with his friend but eventually realized and accepted that he lost the one person he truly saw as an equal.[10] After having to put an end to Suguru's life before more calamity arose, it was Satoru's trauma over losing his best friend that caused his ultimate downfall in Shibuya. He was also distraught when Yuji seemingly died.

Satoru's dream and endgame is to reform the jujutsu world from the bottom up through education. He seeks to foster a new generation of sorcerers that he hopes will one day become his equals.[11]

Overall Skill Level: Even among the special grade sorcerers, Satoru is known to be the strongest, holding both immense amounts of cursed energy and a dangerously powerful technique. No one can seemingly match his skill level except for the King of Curses, Sukuna.

As students, Satoru and Suguru were considered "the strongest," capable of quickly dealing with experienced and powerful curse users. Whereas before, he and Geto were no match for the renowned Sorcerer Killer, Satoru's abilities vastly increased to where he was able to put Toji Fushiguro into the defensive and ultimately kill him with his strongest technique after realizing and perfecting his capabilities. As he continued growing, he eclipsed Suguru's talents to the point Saguru admitted Satoru to be the strongest alone. Suguru also stated that Satoru had the capability of killing all of humanity by himself, which Suguru admitted was out of his ability and didn't even try to fight back when Satoru prepared to kill him, although Satoru ultimately relented as he was unable to kill his best friend.

Satoru Gojo targets weakened Hanami (Anime) Hanami, a powerful special grade, is no match. In the present, Satoru's might was feared by the higher-ups of the jujutsu society, to where Satoru could easily force them to cancel the executions of the likes of the dangerous fellow special-grade sorcerer Yuta Okkotsu and the vessel of Sukuna, Yuji Itadori. He states that it would be easy for him to kill them all and overthrow the jujutsu society if he actually wanted to. Satoru even claimed that he could defeat Sukuna at full power.

Kenjaku and his group of special-grade cursed spirits were also wary of Satoru's power and skill, with Kenjaku admitting he couldn't defeat Gojo in direct battle. He was capable of entirely overpowering and killing Jogo, who was the strongest of the group, and simply his presence was able to force Hanami to retreat, with Gojo almost killing the special-grade cursed spirit with a single attack. When Kenjaku and his group finally developed a plan to face him in combat, despite their preparations, Satoru was still capable of easily fending off their assaults and overpowering them, leaving them astounded by how exceeding his capabilities truly were, killing Hanami and only being defeated due to Kenjaku using his past with Geto to distract him long enough for the Prison Realm to seal him.

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Satoru, in addition to his overwhelming levels of cursed energy, is also an extremely formidable martial artist in close combat, with extraordinary physical prowess to back up his skills. Q&A with Gege Akutami revealed that Satoru is as skilled as the millennia-old Kenjaku in pure hand-to-hand combat without any cursed energy.[12] He was capable of completely overpowering Jogo in hand-to-hand combat, delivering several precise attacks on Jogo's fatal spots, and could even casually fight off both Jogo and Hanami with close-quarters combat, easily countering their attacks and landing powerful hits that swiftly pummelled them into submission.[13] In his duel with Sukuna, Satoru proved to be superior in terms of hand-to-hand combat against the immensely powerful King of Curses, who had previously demonstrated impeccable martial arts skills by simultaneously keeping both Yuji and Maki at bay, consistently being able to overwhelm Sukuna in their later exchanges while clashing their domains to deliver lethal wounds that forced his Malevolent Shrine to crumble within 3 minutes.[14]

Immense Strength: Satoru has the extraordinary physical strength to fight against powerful curses without a problem, causing severe injuries to Jogo with powerful punches and throwing him a considerable distance with a single kick during their fight.[15] He was also able to rip out Jogo's head and,[16] later on, his arm with sheer physical force and even managed to casually rip out Hanami's roots.[17] He could casually rip apart transfigured humans, tearing them apart limb by limb.[18]

Satoru incapacitated the likes of Uraume with a single punch,[19] which injured them to the point where even the use of reverse cursed technique was unable to truly heal them, leaving the powerful subordinate of Sukuna still suffering a degree of pain from the lasting wound.[20] During his fight with Sukuna, a clash between the two of them destroyed entire buildings, and Satoru proved strong enough to deal critical injuries to the King of Curses using martial arts alone, a feat that not even the strength of Yuji and Maki could achieve. With just a single burst of Black Flash, Satoru was able to damage Sukuna to the point where he temporarily knocked him unconscious by punching him in the heart.[21] Two punches from Satoru proved sufficient to temporarily stun Mahoraga.[22]

Immense Speed & Reflexes: Satoru is an extremely fast fighter, capable of moving faster than the eye could perceive. He is known as the fastest jujutsu sorcerer, being above Naobito Zenin in terms of speed.[23] He managed to effortlessly outpace Jogo, throwing almost imperceptible punches and kicks. Satoru was even able to successfully react to and dodge the attacks of someone of Toji Fushiguro's level.[24] Satoru can also accurately eliminate a thousand transfigured humans in a crowd of people in almost five minutes.[25] He was able to move faster than Uraume, a powerful and experienced sorcerer was able to react and may have killed Kenjaku if Sukuna hadn't intervened. During Satoru's duel with Sukuna, he proved to be faster than the King of Curses, able to continuously outpace Sukuna in their hand-to-hand combat exchanges, repeatedly pushing him into the defense with his speed and catching him off-guard on certain occasions. Satoru even kept up with Sukuna, Mahoraga, and Merged Beast Agito simultaneously.

Intelligence Great Tactical Intellect: Satoru is quite tactical and capable of figuring out his opponent's plan with minimum information. He has also shown to be extremely adaptable to any enemy he has ever faced so far, precisely knowing what to do to counter their techniques and find ways to defeat them. This is best displayed during his bout against Jogo, Hanami, Choso, and Mahito, where he was shown to be capable of conceiving multiple battle strategies while fighting at blinding speeds, protecting civilians, keeping property damage to a minimum, all while dodging and evading the attacks of the four adversaries. While fighting Sukuna, faced with the Malevolent Shrine's relentless attacks without his cursed technique, Satoru proved able to calmly develop an effective plan to not only survive but also counter-attack by out-healing its sure-hit attack with reverse cursed technique and using Simple Domain to give him an opening to recover his cursed technique. He also demonstrated the great genius to change the conditions of his domain to a degree that left Atsuya Kusakabe, an expert on barrier techniques, astonished.

Cursed Energy Capacity: Satoru Gojo is known as the strongest jujutsu sorcerer within the modern jujutsu society. He earned this alias in part due to the immense amounts of cursed energy he possesses. Gojo's vast cursed energy, combined with his cursed energy efficiency, allows him to expand his domain at least five times in one day, while most sorcerers and special grade cursed spirits can only use it once. Throughout his fight with Sukuna, Gojo used cursed energy to constantly reinforce himself and activate his cursed techniques multiple times, without ever showing signs of exhausting his reserves.

Cursed Energy Manipulation: Gojo has excellent control over his cursed energy due to the Six Eyes. He is capable of expanding his domain for a split second, using reverse cursed technique, and simultaneously activating and controlling multiple Blues and Reds. Additionally, Gojo has extraordinary cursed energy efficiency. When using cursed techniques, Gojo suffers almost zero unnecessary cursed energy loss. As a result, he spends less cursed energy compared to other sorcerers during combat, giving the impression that he never runs out of cursed energy.[26][27] This allows him to keep Limitless activated at all times while constantly using reverse cursed technique to heal his brain to prevent fatigue,[28] despite the latter's massive cursed energy consumption.[29]

Cursed Energy Output: In addition to his immense cursed energy capacity, Gojo can output high amounts of cursed energy into his techniques to augment their effects. By strengthening the output into his Limitless technique, Gojo countered Jogo and Hanami's strategy to neutralize his Infinity with domain amplification, expanding the size of Infinity to the point that he could even push back and crush Hanami against a wall with the barrier.[30]

By deliberately including the incantations and hand signs of his cursed techniques, Gojo can increase their cursed energy output. While being amplified by Utahime Iori's Solo Forbidden Area, Gojo boosted his Hollow Technique: Purple's output to 200% by chanting its cursed chant and performing its gestures. Upon unleashing Purple, the technique travelled from Shibuya to Shinjuku, covering almost four kilometers (2.5 miles) of distance and carving through all the obstacles in its path.[31][32]

Cursed Energy Reinforcement: Even when he was a second-year student, Gojo was already skilled at reinforcing his body with cursed energy. When Toji stabbed through his chest with a sword, Gojo reinforced his cursed energy so that the sword couldn't do further damage, causing the injury to hardly affect him during their first battle.[33]

As an adult, Gojo can strengthen himself with cursed energy to vastly increase his physical strength or fortify his body. Many of his aforementioned feats of strength and speed can be attributed to his skill in reinforcement techniques. With cursed energy reinforcement and hand-to-hand combat alone, Gojo was able to overwhelm two special grade cursed spirits. In several instances, single strikes from Gojo were strong enough to either launch his opponents a fair distance away or pierce through them.

Black Flash (黒こく閃せん, Kokusen?): A phenomenon that occurs when the user applies cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit, creating a spatial distortion that causes their cursed energy to flash black and amplifies the destructive power of the strike to the power of 2.5.[34] Satoru first demonstrated his ability to use Black Flash against Sukuna during their battle in Shinjuku, dealing a devastating strike when the King of Curses least expected it and knocking him unconscious.[35] Gojo has used Black Flash more times than Kento Nanami but less times consecutively, though his record was eventually surpassed by Yuji Itadori.[36] It is currently unknown how many times exactly Gojo has performed Black Flash, but he has used it at least four times.

Inherited Technique Satoru activating Red and Blue (Anime) Limitless (無む下か限げん, Mukagen?): Limitless is an inherited technique of the Gojo family. This technique grants its users nigh-absolute control over space through cursed energy manipulation at an atomic level,[37] resulting in multiple subsequent results and techniques within the overall ability. With the manipulation of space as just the base level of the technique, Limitless has three standard and one "non-standard" form beyond this.

Infinity (無む限げん, Mugen?): Being the neutral form of the Limitless, the Infinity is commonly known as the ability to stop,[38] although this is a common misconception as the true power of the Infinity is to slow things down. When something attempts to hit Satoru, the person or object in question instead hits the infinity between himself and them.[39][40] According to Satoru, this is the convergence of an infinite series and comes straight from the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. Akin to the way Achilles will never catch the tortoise due to the potential, infinite amounts of finite space separating them or how the real number one will never touch the real number two due to the infinite amount of fractions that separate them, the opponent will never touch Satoru due to the infinity between them.[41]

Satoru initially had to manually activate Infinity, and keeping it active for long periods of time tired him.[42] Since his third year at Jujutsu High, Satoru has programmed Infinity to be constantly active, and automatically target and protect him by discerning the danger levels of approaching objects based on their cursed energy intensity, mass, speed, and shape. While this would normally fatigue his brain, an efficient and constant usage of reverse cursed technique allowed Gojo to keep his brain refreshed.[43]

Cursed Technique Lapse - Maximum Cursed Energy Output: Blue (術じゅう式順十发出力理大大大大「青」, Jutsushiki Junten Shutsuryoku Saidai・Ao?): Satoru creates a center of gravity in a specific space capable of attracting all matter, crushing it all effortlessly into a black hole. He can also move the point of gravity at will, augmenting its destructive capabilities greatly.[45]

Cursed Technique Reversal: Red (術じゅつ式しき反HANTEN「赫あか」, Jutsushiki Hanten・Aka?)[46]: Being an inversion of Blue, Red has the opposite effect. By flowing positive energy generated from reverse cursed technique into his Limitless technique,[47][48] Satoru inverts the properties of Blue and activates the divergence of Infinity, causing an extremely powerful repulsive force that blasts targets away. Red outputs at least twice as much as energy as Blue.[49]

Cursed Technique Lapse - Maximum Cursed Energy Output: Blue (術じゅう式順十发出力理大大大大「青」, Jutsushiki Junten Shutsuryoku Saidai・Ao?): Satoru creates a center of gravity in a specific space capable of attracting all matter, crushing it all effortlessly into a black hole. He can also move the point of gravity at will, augmenting its destructive capabilities greatly.[45]

Hollow Technique: Purple (虚きょ式しき「茈紫崎」, Kyoshiki・Murasaki?): An advanced technique that collides the Lapse and Reversal of the Limitless, resulting in the creation of an imaginary mass that is then launched at the target to deal destructive damage.[50]

Reverse Cursed Technique (反はん転てん術じゅつ式しき, Hanten Jutsushiki?): At first, while a first and second year student of Jujutsu High, Satoru was unable to grasp the complex nature of reverse cursed technique. After being put on his deathbed during his first fight with Toji Fushiguro, Satoru finally understood how to perform the technique and tapped into the core of cursed energy, granting him the ability to not only heal himself, but also make the positive energy flow into the Limitless, giving him access to his Red and Hollow Purple techniques.[51]

During his duel with Sukuna, Satoru survived the onslaught of slashes from Malevolent Shrine by using reverse cursed technique at full power.[52] Additionally, Satoru further demonstrated his expertise with reverse cursed technique by using it to replenish his burned-out cursed technique, an unprecedented and seemingly impossible feat even for a talented sorcerer like Yuta Okkotsu.[53]

Barrier Techniques Satoru creating a curtain (Anime) Curtain (帳とばり, Tobari?): Gojo can create a barrier that surrounds a certain area. The barrier can seal the area off from other people or a specific person wanting to get in.

Anti-Domain Techniques Satoru Gojo using Simple Domain New Shadow Style: Simple Domain ( 新・影影流 简可い域い, Shin Kageryū: Kan'i Ryōiki?): An anti-domain technique that neutralizes a domain's barrier and disables its sure-hit effect in a set area of ​​space around the user. Satoru normally doesn't need to resort to doing so and Yuji didn't even know he could do it before the former's fight with Sukuna. Unlike Yuki Tsukumo, Satoru is not suited to teach the technique to others.[54]

Falling Blossom Emotion (落らっ花かの情じょう, Rakka no Jō?): A secret art and an anti-domain technique exclusively passed down in the Big Three Families. It shrouds the user in cursed energy, which counterattacks a domain's sure-hit attack the moment it makes contact. Gojo learned this technique when he was a kid, but stopped using it after mastering his domain until his battle with Sukuna. Normally, this technique can nullify a domain's attacks, however, it only weakened the damage from Malevolent Shrine due to the domain's high output.[55]

Domain Expansion Unlimited Void Unlimited Void (無む量りょう空くう処しょ, Muryōkūsho?): Satoru's Domain Expansion. It creates a metaphysical space that causes the victims to receive all kinds of stimuli and information endlessly, restraining their thought processes and actions.[56] In terms of raw strength, Satoru's domain is equal to Sukuna's on the inside, only losing due to Malevolent Shrine's open domain that allowed Sukuna to destroy the barrier of Unlimited Void.[57] Satoru's skill with his Domain Expansion is so great that he can precisely activate it for only 0.2 seconds, limiting its lasting effect on those he traps within it,[58] and is able to freely change the conditions of Unlimited Void's barrier. Satoru himself and those he makes physical contact with are immune to its effect.[59]

Special Abilities Satoru Gojo arrives on the battlefield (Anime) Six Eyes (六りく眼がん, Rikugan?): An innate trait rarely inherited by individuals in the Gojo Clan, similar to the Limitless. These eyes grant their wielder incredible perception and precise control of cursed energy. Even when they are completely obscured, the Six Eyes function like high-definition infrared vision, allowing the user to perceive their environment through the flow of cursed energy. These eyes also allow the user to see through a sorcerer's cursed technique and determine its nature.[60][41][61]

The extremely precise manipulation of cursed energy granted by the Six Eyes allows the user to activate their cursed techniques with incredible levels of efficiency, resulting in almost zero cursed energy loss due to inefficiency, which lets the user use comparatively less cursed energy than others when activating the same techniques.[26] Consequently, the Six Eyes are essential for using and mastering the Limitless technique.[62]