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Sukuna

Alias

King of Curses

The Dark Shaman

Gender

Male

According to a legend, during the golden age of jujutsu over 1,000 years ago, Sukuna was an Imaginary Demon, though in truth was a human sorcerer, and other sorcerers gave their all to defeat him. After his death, he became a cursed spirit, and his curse was too strong for his body to be fully destroyed. Henceforth, his remains of 20 indestructible fingers, preserved in grave wax, traversed the ages as cursed objects, ever growing in power. In the present, Sukuna has been incarnated into Yuji Itadori due to the latter eating one of his cursed fingers, which contain his fragmented power.

Appearance

His past appearance is described as a demon with four arms and two faces. Currently, he appears similar to the host he is in, but with spiked hair and with unique markings on his forehead, nose, cheeks, and torso. He also has a second pair of eyes under his normal eyes, which are usually closed. Sukuna also has two lines on both his wrists, upper arms, circles on both his shoulders with a dot in each, two-segmented curve lines on his chest, and two lines on his stomach while possessing Yuji.

Sukuna wears a light-colored kimono with a black edge, a black scarf, and black shoes.

Personality

Sukuna is selfish, cold-hearted, immoral, 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, Yuji Itadori. In fact, he frequently taunts and insults Yuji, calling him a brat and even laughing at or enjoying Yuji's despair on multiple occasions.

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. He has also displayed the ability to acknowledge and praise his opponents, as shown by how before killing Jogo he acknowledged he was strong despite having completely overpowered him and that he should be proud.

Abilities and Powers

Overall Skill Level: Sukuna is a special grade cursed spirit. As the most powerful cursed spirit in the entire series, Sukuna possesses vast amounts of cursed energy. Sukuna's presence was felt throughout Shibuya once he was awakened. His cursed energy is similar to Gojo Satoru in it's immensity, but different in it's overwhelmingly evil nature. He soon went on to overwhelm and defeat Jogo, the most powerful cursed spirit in Mahito's group. Even Gojo Satoru acknowledged Sukuna's strength, stating that fighting him would be tough. In every single appearance, Sukuna has proved that he is by far the strongest cursed spirit ever. He seriously injured Mahito when angered, defeated Jogo without much struggling, defeated Mahoraga, something no user of the Ten Shadows Technique and even a member of the Gojo Family with the Six Eyes had done. His strength is so great that Mahito and Jogo were convinced that Sukuna's revival could ensure their success. Sukuna's strength is only rivaled by other special grades like Yuta Okkotsu and Satoru Gojo.

Incarnation: 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 fingers, Sukuna immediately came to possess his body.

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Sukuna is an extremely skilled and powerful close-quarters fighter. He is shown overwhelming Megumi with powerful physical strikes alone. Sukuna can unite his cursed technique and his hand-to-hand prowess, making him an extremely difficult opponent to overwhelm in battle.

Immense Strength: In Yuji's body, Sukuna possesses tremendous physical strength and managed to fling a person through several building floors without effort. Even in an incomplete state, he easily overpowered the likes of a finger bearer, a special-grade curse. In that same state, he easily overpowered and destroyed Megumi's shikigami. He even punched Megumi so hard, the raindrops in that area dispersed. With fifteen of his fingers, Sukuna punched Jogo through buildings and even destroyed the latter's jaw. His blows had considerable effect on Mahoraga.

Immense Speed: Sukuna has shown to move at incredible speed, which his opponent didn't even notice that Sukuna has moved until it is too late. He was constantly able to dodge Jogo's attacks and kept up with Mahoraga in their fight. With three fingers, he caught a finger bearer off-guard and beat him into the ground. Sukuna was even able to appear in the middle of Atsuya Kusakabe and Panda, both capable sorcerers, with the former even being a Grade 1 sorcerer.

Immense Reflexes: Sukuna can easily counter any opponent and is fast enough for his opponent to not even realize that their limb has been cut off. He consistently dodged Mahoraga's blows and countered during their fight. He was quickly able to put Mahoraga down for good before he had finished regenerating. He was able to dodge Jogo's Maximum: Meteor.

Immense Durability: Even in Itadori'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.

Great Tactical Intellect: Sukuna is an incredibly intelligent cursed spirit. He has fully grasped the nature of cursed techniques, and cursed and reverse cursed energy 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 it's technique.

Metamorphosis: Sukuna can create new eyes and mouths on his host, 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.

Immense Cursed Energy: Sukuna possesses immense levels of cursed energy due to his innate power, cementing his title as the King of Curses. He was able to continuously use his techniques throughout his battles without exhausting himself in the slightest. He has skillful control over his cursed energy, being able to use Domain Expansion and Reverse Cursed Techniques. The only other person who uses both is Satoru Gojo. His amount of cursed energy far surpasses other special grades cursed spirits.

(反転術式 Reverse Cursed Technique Hanten Jutsushiki ? ): Due to his nature as a special grade cursed spirit, Sukuna can easily use reverse cursed technique in order to regenerate lost limbs in an instant. Regained limbs maintain the same integrity as the rest of Sukuna's body. He can go further and even heal others.

Binding Vows

Sukuna has an unnamed Binding Vow with Yuji. The King of Curses agreed to revive the boy after his apparent death in during the events of the Cursed Womb Arc under two conditions: ① Yuji would allow Sukuna to take over his body for one full minute when the cursed spirit would chant "Enchain" and ② he would forget about the agreement. Yuji initially opposed the Binding Vow, making Sukuna promise that he wouldn't kill or hurt anyone during that minute. The boy still disagreed with the terms and instead had a battle against the King of Curses, where he'd allow the agreement to occur if he lost. Sukuna effortlessly defeated Yuji, forcing him into the Binding Vow.

It is currently unknown what Sukuna's cursed technique is. He was shown to use his cursed energy to slash targets. Sukuna was also shown to use fire-based powers.

Barrier Techniques

(伏魔御厨子 Malevolent Shrine Fukuma Mizushi ? ) [6]: Sukuna's Domain Expansion creates a Buddhist shrine decorated with skulls. Malevolent Shrine has a unique trait; it doesn't create a separate space using a barrier. A binding vow is formed by allowing an escape route, which vastly increases the guaranteed hit's effective area with a maximum radius of nearly 200 meters.

Battles & Events

Introduction Arc

Cursed Womb Arc

Vs. Mahito Arc

Shibuya Incident Arc

Sukuna is based on the same-named figure from Japanese mythology: Ryōmen-sukuna. He is a demonic/specter-like figure described in the Nihon Shoki, said to have appeared in the Hida Province (today's Gifu Prefecture) in ancient times, during the reign of Emperor Nintoku in the 4th century.

He was described as a man of inhuman strength, with a two-faced head plus a total of eight limbs, four arms and legs respectively, that served each face. Wielding a multitude of weapons in his many hands (incl. a bow, arrow, and sword), he terrorized village after village in ancient Hida, plundering and leaving chaos in his wake. That is, until a brave military commander dispatched by the Imperial Court, named Takefurukuma no Mikoto, stepped forth and put an end to the monster's tyranny, expelling him from Hida.

Ryomen-sukuna was worshipped by some as a minor deity, and statues depicting his distinctly two-faced head can still be found today in Gifu temples and shrines.

One theory states that Ryomen-sukuna is a symbol of twins and brothers, therefore it refers to Oousu no Mikoto and Ousu no Mikoto (i.e. Yamato Takeru no Mikoto and his brother), twins in ancient Japanese history. Another theory states that Ryomen-sukuna refers to Emperor Chuai's sons, Kagosaka no Miko and Oshikuma no Mikoto. Both of pairs of brothers are deeply related to Mino and Hida Provinces. Takeuchi-monjo (an ancient text which recorded the lineage of ancient kami and a dynasty preceding Emperor Jinmu) wrote Hida Province as "日玉国" or "日霊国," indicating that Hida was Takamanohara (plain of high heaven) and Kuraiyama Mountain was the Pyramid. It is considered that Ryomen-sukuna had a Hida-based dynasty the same size as the Yamato Dynasty.

Sukuna's kimono is very loose akin to a ladies kimono, as such space granted him more comfort while having four arms in the past.

Sukuna ranked 10th place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity Poll with 5,860 votes.

Sukuna's technique names appear to have some relation with cooking. His Domain Expansion, 伏魔御厨子, has been translated officially as "Malevolent Shrine", but 伏魔 is more literally translated as "place where demons hide" and 御厨子 is an archaic word referring to a kitchen or the emperor's eating area. His cutting techniques and also use kanji used in cooking to refer to "dismantling" and "filleting" fish.

According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:

His hobby is eating.

He dislikes nothing in particular (he doesn't care about anything other than himself).

In the official fan book Q&A with Gege Akutami, the author stated Sukuna's fingers taste like soap.

Sukuna has won the award for "Best Antagonist" in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2021.

References

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Ryomen Sukuna (両 (りょう) 面 (めん) 宿 (すく) 儺 (な) , Ryōmen Sukuna?), more often called just Sukuna (宿 (すく) 儺 (な) , Sukuna?), is a mighty cursed spirit known as the undisputed King of Curses (呪 (のろ) いの王 (おう) , Noroi no Ō?).

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The King of Curses shares a face with 's main character, but thanks to Yuji's self-control fans still know very little about Ryomen Sukuna. The cursed spirit that lives inside of Jujutsu Kaisen's protagonist has been called the King of Curses. After watching Sukuna's display of strength against a special grade cursed spirit, Megumi Fushiguro, and Mahito, there's little to no reason to question this title.

RELATED: Jujutsu Kaisen: How Old Is Ryomen Sukuna? & 9 Other Questions About The King Of Curses, Answered

Despite the fact that Ryomen Sukuna has yet to take up the role of a primary antagonist and seems to stand little to no chance against Satoru Gojo, many still fear him. The King of Curses is a mystery, which makes his malice and mission terrifying regardless of the role he plays in the current plot of Jujutsu Kaisen.

10 Sukuna's Cursed Technique Slices Up His Foes With Invisible Cleavers

Sukuna's cursed techniques are still very much a mystery to anime fans. Even manga fans are still theorizing over the King of Curses' technique. After watching Sukuna unleash his dismantle and cleave cursed techniques, fans have come to the conclusion that Sukuna's inherent technique has something to do with slicing up his opponents with cursed energy.

This cursed technique does seem fitting for someone as malicious as Sukuna, but after watching him utilize a fire based technique in the manga, fans can't be sure that cleave and dismantle are Sukuna's inherent techniques.

9 Sukuna Is Both A Human Jujutsu Sorcerer And A Cursed Spirit

Another note that Satoru Gojo makes when explaining Sukuna to Yuji is the fact that Sukuna was both a jujutsu sorcerer and a cursed spirit. In the modern world of jujutsu, this is simply unheard of.

There are those like Panda and Choso who blur the line between cursed spirit and jujutsu sorcerer, but there are none who claim to be both a living, breathing human sorcerer and a cursed spirit. Hopefully when Sukuna becomes a bigger part of the series fans will figure out just how the ancient sorcerer became a cursed spirit.

8 Sukuna's Original Form Sported Four Arms And Four Eyes

When Gojo first explains the ancient threat of Ryomen Sukuna, he makes it clear that Sukuna once ruled over the world of jujutsu with four fists. That's right, Sukuna's original form had 20 fingers, four hands, and four arms. Despite the fact that Sukuna's twenty fingers are pivotal to the plot of JJK, it's still unclear how or why the ancient sorcerer had four arms in the first place.

7 Sukuna Is Able To Open A Jujutsu Vault To Access A Fire-Based Cursed Technique

During the Shibuya Incident Arc, Sukuna unveils a trick that left fans scratching their heads in confusion. When approached by the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Jogo, Sukuna opens a new fire-based cursed technique to challenge Jogo on fair grounds.

RELATED: Jujutsu Kaisen: 10 Most Complicated Cursed Techniques, Ranked

It becomes very clear that Sukuna only revealed this technique to toy with Jogo, but it further expanded upon Sukuna's mystery. It seems that the King of Curses has access to multiple cursed techniques and fans have only gotten a small taste of his full power.

6 Malevolent Shrine Houses A Set Of Teeth At Its Base

Sukuna's Cursed technique is unique when compared to other jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits. Instead of forming a barrier and expanding his domain within that barrier, Sukuna expands his domain over the natural world.

This might seem like a small difference, but it actually allows Sukuna to expand his technique over a much larger space than a traditional domain expansion technique. This part can be explained by heavenly restrictions, but many are still confused as to why Malevolent Shrine has a set of human teeth at its base.

5 Is Satoru's Confidence Enough To Take Down The King Of Curses?

Satoru Gojo is well known for his boisterously confident personality. When Yuji asks Gojo whether he could beat Sukuna at full strength, Satoru admits that it would surely strain him, but fails to concede to the King of Curses.

Gojo's confidence is backed by a powerful set of cursed techniques, but fans should still be concerned about the inevitable Sukuna vs. Gojo fight scene. Sukuna has yet to be defeated after he went toe-to-toe with Gojo in the second episode of the anime. Satoru may have beat him once, but Sukuna had only attained 5% of his full power. When Sukuna reaches 100% of his strength, it may be a different story altogether.

4 Despite Sukuna's Strength, He Was Defeated & Sealed Inside His Own Fingers

Sukuna is easily one of the most powerful jujutsu users in the entirety of Gege Akutami's series. The diverse set of cursed techniques at his disposal and the pure carnage of his domain expansion make him a threat to anyone who calls him their enemy.

Despite all this, Sukuna still begins this series as a rotted set of fingers. The manga has led some viewers to believe that it was Kenjaku who sealed Sukuna inside his own dismembered fingers, but fans are still left in the dark as to how and why Sukuna was defeated in his past life.

3 Do His Sealed Fingers Or His Title Have Something To Do With His Technique?

Many assume that Sukuna earned the title "King of Curses" because of the overwhelming strength he possesses. After being sealed away for generations inside his own fingers, his strength does come into question, but there may be another reason behind this specific sealing or behind his title in the first place. Perhaps the King of Curses earned his name thanks to his original cursed technique.

2 Sukuna Is Unable To Take Control Of Yuji's Body

The first episode of Jujutsu Kaisen opened Gege Akutami's world of jujutsu by introducing Yuji Itadori as a supernaturally gifted high school student. After Megumi tracks Yuji and Sukuna's finger down, it becomes clear that Yuji is more than just physically gifted. The young man is kind and self-sacrificial beyond his years, but none of this explains why Sukuna was unable to control him the moment he ingested a special grade cursed item.

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If Sukuna is the King of Curses, Yuji must be some sort of king himself, because it makes no sense for the most powerful jujutsu sorcerer/cursed spirit to be rejected by an unnaturally strong 9th grader.

1 Ryomen Sukuna Is Not The Only Sorcerer Who Lives From The Golden Age Of Jujutsu Sorcery

Both Urauma and Kenjaku seem to have known Sukuna in his past life, but their connection is still too vague to make sense of. The Shibuya Incident proves that Sukuna and Urauma were close in their past life, as the King of Curses seems surprised to see the white haired monk on the opposite side of the battle field. The sorcerer hiding within Suguru Geto's body is even more mysterious than Sukuna, but time will surely tell the tale of both Kenjaku and Sukuna.

NEXT: Jujutsu Kaisen: 5 Harsh Realities Of Being Sukuna's Vessel (& 5 Perks)
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The King of Curses shares a face with 's main character, but thanks to Yuji's self-control fans still know very little about Ryomen Sukuna. The cursed spirit that lives inside of Jujutsu Kaisen's protagonist has been called the King of Curses.