Top Tier Chef

Women in limbo (I'm still coping for Nobara and Yuki. Gege pls)

IT TOOK 1184 DAYS BUT HE'S BAAACKKKK

“I was there too”

day ninety-seven | based on @getsup's suggestion of yuuji having a school medical visit

I feel bad for not feeling much about Tsumiki. Its like her whole purpose is for megumi manpain. What are the chances of her character being fleshed out?

After chapter 219, almost nothing. Sadly, she's just a side character, a minor one.

kirakari

Im begging, leave that lil guy alone ☹️😔

Jujutsu Kaisen: Power System

@ohnomypotato-airaka and everyone else who's confused about what's going on in this manga with all these powers.

From one of the fanbooks I think, Gege made this Ability tree/chart to showcase how the power system in JJK works:

First and foremost, this Tree starts with CURSED ENERGY on the mid-left part of this picture. Meaning: you need a certain amount of CE to even try to become a sorcerer. From there the abilities branch out to CURSED ENERGY MANIPULATION (CEM), INNATE TECHNIQUE and NEGATIVE EMOTIONS.

I once made a post where I tried to map out all the abilities of the main cast. What I made at the time looks like this (it's incomplete of course):

But what the fuck do all of these things mean? Well, it means that you gain jujutsu abilities one step at a time and sometimes you need to master two different abilities to gain access to a new one. Let's look at Domain Expansion.

The path: CE -> Negative Emotions -> Innate Domain -> Curtain -> Barrier Technique -> Domain Expansion

Only if you follow this path will you be able to expand your Domain with the Barrier Technique being the most difficult ability where most sorcerer fail. EXCEPT for Megumi. He activated his domain without mastering the BT first, instead he compensated that lack of ability by using external barriers in the creation of his Domain.

(We have since learned that this compensation is exceptional and that with the skeletal construct inside Megumi's incomplete Domain, he's basically the next one in line to learn to expand an Open Barrier Domain)

The thing that's relevant for last chapter is the fact that after a DE ends the users Cursed Techniques become unstable meaning they can't use them anymore for a certain amount of time. A technique is everything on this branch:

What do those words mean?

Inherited Technique: Limitless, Strawdoll Technique, Anti-gravity System

Non-Inherited Technique: ok, nothing really comes to mind but summoning generic Shikigami might be this

Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue, Resonance/Hairpin, Anti-gravity. Don't get confused by the word Lapse, it just means normal application

Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, Gravity. As you can see CTR has two paths leading to it, the second one coming from Reverse Cursed Technique (RCT).

RCT is not an actual technique as you just multiply CE with itself to create Positive Energy. What happens is this: Gojo uses his Technique and when he powers that Technique with Cursed Energy he gets Blue but when he powers it Positive Energy he gets Red. The same goes for Kenjaku and Anti-gravity and Gravity.

Positive Energy does not occur naturally inside the human body so to use a technique like Red, Gojo has to use two times the amount of CE.

Hope this helped :D

Ten Shadows Technique

Yeah, let's talk about the Ten shadows technique. Again.

Ten shadows technique is derived from the lore of Tokusa no kandakara (十種神宝) or Ten sacred treasures from the Shintoism lore. These are the symbols that depict them - and most of these can also be found engraved on the shikigami summoned using the technique

Okitsukagami (Mirror of the Deep) -- Toad (Fushiguro's)

Hetsukagami (Mirror of the Shore) -- Max Elephant (both Fushiguro's and Sukuna's)

Yatsuka no tsurugi (Eight hands Long Sword) -- Makora (not engraved clearly like most, but literally in its name when Fushiguro summoned it)

Ikutama (Jewel of Life)

Makarukaeshi no tama (Jewel of Resuscitation) -- Round Deer (Sukuna's; very perfect with its use for reverse curse energy)

Tarutama (Jewel of Plenty) -- Black Jade Dog (Fushiguro's)

Chikaeshi no tama (Jewel of turning back on the Road) -- White Jade Dog (Fushiguro's). The combination of Tarutama and Chikaeshi no tama's symbols make up the symbol on Kon Jade Dog.

Orochi no hire (Snake[-repelling] Scarf)

Hachi no hire (Bee[-repelling] Scarf) -- Piercing Ox (Sukuna's)

Kusagusa no mono no hire (Scarf [to ward off] Various Things)

That leaves Nue, Escape Rabbit, and Serpent. Serpent should be ikutama by the glimpse of it, but it's unclear. So Nue and Rabbit would be Orochi no hire and Kusagusa no mono no hire.

After a few years of guessing game, we finally have the full roster of shikigami army that the Ten Shadows technique can summon. Although with unexpected twist of not one, but two users.