I’m a believer that Gege is fine, he’s just trying to figure out how to shit out an ending

turns out gege is taking the break to train up to fight sukuna because only he can end the sukuna cycle cycle now 🗿

Jjk is gonna take that hiatus x hiatus inspiration in full stride

the merger is the friends we made along the way

What if gege just watched these videos for ideas

lobotomy kaisen got fans thinking this is steins gate 💀

“then he woke up… & it was all a dream” ahhhh story

The way I think about it is it’s like the characters are planets orbiting around a star, the star being cursed energy. Some characters maximize the effects of this orbit (ex. Sukuna or Tengen ), most go along with this orbit (most sorcerers), some are trying to break it (ex. Gojo, Geto, Yuki and most importantly kenjaku) and a few have broken free (Toji (partially) and Maki). Cursed energy is a cage made out of human suffer binding everyone together in that cycle. I think this cycle became more unstable after the events of hidden inventory and the cycle became more of a spiral. I also think the scene with MeiMei and Utahime was meant to show how to break free. The original plan was to run as fast as possible to the opposite sides of the mansion. This mirrors how Gojo and Geto ran to opposites sides of Jujutsu society which I think was the start of breaking the cycle. The thing I’m not sure about is if we are spiraling inward to integrate more with cursed energy (kenjaku’s plan of cursed energy optimization) or spiraling outward away from cursed energy (Yuki’s plan of cursed energy removal). Maybe both somehow? (Sorry this is so long 😅)

If anyone is going to end the cycle it’s going to be Yuji. He is half in the cycle (Sukuna’s brother’s reincarnation) and half outside the cycle (son of Kenjaku). He has direct connections to the reason the cycle exists, so he should be able to undo the creation of the cycle. By destroying Sukuna and by doing so he is undoing the results of Kenjaku’s meddling. He’s like the bridge between control and out of control.

I just want to say thank you Nick for making these and NC Hammer videos. They keep me busy on my worst days

So the only thing that gets me is the lack of Megumi in this theory because it seems like Megumi will play a central role to the story's ending based on how the character was built up the whole. So if we look at Hidden Inventory arc, it's the story of the Strong failing and separating. Wouldn't the circle theory be that the reverse of this would be the ending is the Weak succeeding by coming together? It's kinda what we've already been witnessing with the Sukuna cycle. I also believe that it wouldn't be restricted to Gojo and Geto playing the pivots in the end, but their roles are played out by other characters in the comparable slot. Geto is the one who lost his way; started with surety, was shaken/falls apart, and went into darkness. So the reverse progression of Geto's path would fit for Megumi in the final arc; lost in darkness, has to be shaken out of it or put back together, and takes a chance on uncertainty. Then there's Gojo; confidence and high self-worth, sees all with a glaring blindspot that gets taken advantage of, and loses his best friend/most precious person thus is a tale of tearing down. Yuji would then fill the role of Gojo in reverse given what we know of him. Before and after Gojo placed high value in himself, Yuji will continue to place value in others over himself, but his is a tale of building oneself up. So the ending for Yuji might be actually reaching his friend Megumi to bring him back and going from the one blind to everything except his tunnel vision to finally being able to see the full picture. Though, I will admit that a true reversal would be sad as it means Yuji and Megumi would reunite with each other, but as Geto and Gojo started together, then Megumi and Yuji would have to end apart with Yuji dying being the most likely outcome. However, a fun nod at true reverse from the beginning would be that the one who blasts away threat isn't the Gojo/Yuji role, but the savior becomes the saved. So whoever would be in Utahime's role would be the one to save the boys, which could mean a surprise Nobara with a face scar at the very end to save the day could be possible (or Maki which would also be totally fine). Just my 2 cents on it as I felt the circle theory was being a little too literally when story structure works more on themes and scenarios repeating as opposed to reusing the characters.

ALSO Geto's body suddenly fighting Kenjaku's influence during the Gojo sealing event is imo the biggest lose thread left, so the possibility of our glorious blue eyed king returning is real

9:00 bro, just like everyone else, completely forgets about Kashimo 😭

this just drooped and it already has 1000 views that's so impressive man

I appreciate how much credit you gave for the origin of this theory.

"THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM THEIR HISTORY ARE BOUND TO REPEAT IT AGAIN"

Maybe the real Gege was the friends we made along the way.

I think the option we’re missing re: cursed corpses is that they soul swap megumi into yu/jo in a last ditch “technically correct” attempt to save him. At which point, Yuji is allowed to go all out and finally kill sukuna. Sukuna then, in a final act of infantile, impotent rage against Yuji - initiates the merger with the new yuta/megumi/Gojo cursed corpse as the vessel. Yuji then completely transcends all known strength comparisons by defeating the Merger, but loses everyone to the sheer destruction along the way. In the end Yuji becomes a cruel mirror to sukuna’s singular strength, but completely against his own desires.

i think he wrote himself into a bind. The story is all over the place. He don't know how to kill off main foe. he need time.

So, if the chiastic circle theory is correct, we are about to see Yuta fail to launch Hollow Purple just like Gojo did in the HIA.

Never thought of a time loop but I did think it’s weird how Geto, Gojo and Toji all died and came back similar ways. Except Toji came back different. But every one of them lost a body part. But Gojo and Geto got “stitched back (2n1) Toji got half of himself back.

Even without the video just the title makes me say "maybe....". The master chef needing time loops to beat? I wouldn't doubt it with how many asspulls he has had.

Bro is onto something❌ Bro is on something✅

Oh thank god your beard is back

Lobotomy kaisen is krazy work i start geekin everytime he says that😂😂😂😂

Bro backed himself into a corner trying to rush the series and then turning it into the Sukuna show. No way this can end any time soon unless we get a massive cliffhanger of an ending

I think its also interesting how everytime yuji and todou are fighting a villain the fight's always interrupted by gojo/geto. When they fought hanami, gojo showed up. when they fought mahito, geto showed up (with kenjaku's brain) & while they are fighting sukuna again gojo shows up (with yuta's brain). So its interesting how only gojo & geto have managed to break this "cycle" you're talking about

Another additional connection is that when gojo told megumi about the ten shadows user who killed the infinity+six eyes user. They were in both instances the heads of their clan. small detail but still.

I agree with the thumbnail title, Sukuna said he was sealed away by other sorcerers and maybe he is in a loop of where he’s constantly killing and getting jumped😔

jjk fans going so crazy that they think this a doctor who episode 😭🙏

It's like poetry, it rhymes.

This was more a character loop than a time loop

I was thinking in this way with “karmic loops” but never able to verbalize it well. I’m glad you shared this dope theory!

Keep up the awesome work and videos Nick

Great video 🔥🔥Im even more excited to see how the story ends now.

I really appreciate content creators who strive to give credit where credit is due, good job!

The theory itself is very interesting and holds a lot of weight in itself. Granted, it can also be looked at as cherry picking because of the flexibility of situations between generations. But what if the gojo geto convo ends up being 2 other people with wildly different ideals where one is the "strongest" and the other is chasing them? This could open up one of the two roles being Sukuna and the other being Yuji or Gota depending on the contents of any coming conversation

0:55 nah who drew this panel lmaooo

Bruh this makes sense though. I mean I’ve noticed some similarities before but damn. I think you cracked it fr fr

The loop is Sukuna encounters new exciting opponent, toys with them, defeats them completely, then repeat.

I really thought this video was going to be about an actual time loop theory. As in there is a theory that the story ends with a merger that in some way resets the world (or something similar like yuji becoming a cursed object) back to before/during the hein era, and then yujis/his descendants become/fill the role of sukuna which then meet kenjaku/someone filling their role and the loop continues with the six eyes and limitless,the tenshadows, shrine, and kenjakus brain thing are all tied by fate to continue this cycle until something breaks it. I personally think this is how the story will go until the very end of the manga in which it will show yuji realizing the cycle and choosing to break it ending the story before it begins

Video 126 of asking nick to finish jojo

I like that theory but I would give up on Gojo, as he is dead, Gojo and Geto role was swapped by Yuji and Yuta respectively, as Yuji will become strongest and Yuta is now kenjaku and will regain his original body becoming Geto.

For a while the time loop was just a meme but it has been around since sukuna vs miguel.

The post about gege was from last week nick, people already have the raw leaks

Video begins at 3:45

Thx for providing my jjk fix anyway 😂❤ bro really worked for this like .

Thanks for the reminder to sub, love your videos.

"are you Gojo because you're going to break the time loop or are you going to break the time loop because you're Gojo" --- Gege to Go/jo

Hey man, love ur vids. Hope you’ll cover the new 263 leaks :D

I had done a time loop theory as well when yuta came back as gojo in others channel. So my time theory differs a more and its a full 1000 year time loop. Our MC who is none other than yuta in main timeline has his fair share of struggles but when he met merger at the end of time all his friends were defeated. Now with this theory gojo still has the same fate and the story is going the same way. But thier is a missing piece and yuta has tried his best to defeat the merger all by himself but he has failed each time but he has a backup plan. Time travel and so he travels in the time of sukuna as he has heard of an entity who was know as the king of monsters. He wants to bring him back into his era to fight the monster but he's not easy to control and now yuta has more enemies in future. So he recreating pieces to solve this puzzle to defeat both sukuna and bring him to his side to defeat merger which is inevitable to come as it has been delayed by tengen for more yhan 1000 years But to control sukuna yuta came up with a plan to create a person like sukuna with heavenly restrictions and so as kenjaku he created subjects and finally made death paintings and found yuji's dad who was sukuna's twin to mate with him and create his perfect person name yuji who will eventually become the next sukuna helping future yuta to defeat sukuna and merger. So we can say there are 2 timeline or more depending on the type of time travel jjk follows as their are many. This way yuta was the mc of 1st timeline while yuji is in this timeline. It was the mayhem created against yuta which was hard for him to bypass and so he became what we know as kenjaku and that the reason why kenjaku even after never witnessing yuta through his own eyes was so confident that yuta can never become gojo. And also a reason why i believe kenjaku only wanted to seal gojo in the first place. He has always tried to hide gojo which could mean he had always wanted to safeguard gojo which he'll eventually fail. So that why he might have come uyo with losing to yuta and finally takeover him or maybe we can see kenjaku memories through yuta and for that this fight has to be long with sukuna. Because all those memories have to kick in and make sense. We didn't got kenjaku backstory and yuta is perfect for sharing that memory. This way yuta will realize how kenjaku has oaved the path for future yuta just like eren did for his young self. I know this is just a theory and im just making myself hyoed uo for no good reason.

4 minutes of yaping in the beginning is crazy

OMG YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE OF MY FAV TIKTOKKERS?!!! THE DAY HAS COME!!

Leaks are coming out tn btw

0:54 oh hell nah 😂😂😂

Inumaki joining the battle in 263 makes me think maybe we should include jjk0 in the time loop as well since inumaki and yuta also fought that curse together

Also, Getto's plan was not to get rid of cursed energy. Quite the opposite in fact

Dammit fools yall quick

The narrative and lore of JJK are definitely cyclical. But I believe (and hope) that there will ultimately be a break in this cycle of curses. Kenjaku and Tengen appear to be somewhat of a focal point; their demise may be a good sign (?). The conflict between Gojo and Geto will likely be reflected through Yuji and Megumi in this turn, hopefully with a different outcome. And if we were to believe Kenjaku's words, Sukuna and/or Yuji are essential for the cycle to continue. Though I'm not sure if he was referring to them specifically or the roles they embody.

Except for the fact that if he's caught in public, HE WILL GET JUMPED!

ill add one up, what if the merger is not the merging of souls but sukuna merging with Yuji, "completing Sukuna" which is the end of the line before the next thousand years start up with sukuna spliting himself again?

8:09 Holy Shit! 😮 it’s izunagi/izunami (the Naruto thing- however tf it’s spelt)

If Yuta ate a finger, wouldn't that count as the third soul?

Definitely didn't see Nick doing a video on Starry's circle theory coming. When's the Satosugu breakdown coming out?

I'ma be honest, I thought everyone was clued in to the looping of jjk

i think that cursed energy is a binding which wraps and connects every person together and the only way to end the merger is to just remove the said connection which is CE and ending the story

“It’s like poetry, it rhymes”

Gege takin his time cooking up all those sweet binding bows he's got lined up for sukunyboi v gota

3 things cross my mind when watching this video. 1. HOW DARE YOU (correctly) assume I dont know what a chiastic circle is 😂. 2. Please cut your hair to a mullet, you gotta try it once and i'm curios how badass it would look. 3. You and Danny's podcast is the best podcast on spotify 🤷‍♂ also tell Danny he's awesome. I bet you don't see this and mention it on the podcast (for real that would make my whole week I love you guys!)

Gege's bed sick image is a Junji Ito reference, nice.

Instead of it being the hidden inventory arc in reverse it’s played through by Yuji and Megumi. Going through what their friendship did in the arc but reverse? I think it could be a happy ending ish so probably not but I kept thinking about it as you were talking. Great content!

oh man this is GOOD

Nick:"it's a like a circle" Nick that's a square

oh thank god this video is a week old lmao I was freaking out for a min

3 weeks of Lobotomy Kaisen is wild

I could care less about how much time he takes off. Its more time for him to cook up the next chapter. So if anything let him cook.

Will there be any tower of god coverage when it comes out with the second season next week?

Heres a theory I just crapped out: What if Yuji beats sukuna, becomes the hero, then after living the life, decides to split his soul to keep on living, then Sukunas soul gets reborn, and becomes the one to beat Yuji, repeating the loop, but with Sukuna as the 'hero', eventually Yuji would hate the new Sukuna for what he's done even if Sukuna doesn't know why. This would explain why Sukuna hates Yuji so much for apparently no reason, cuz Yuji was the 'villain' pre-heian era

We are stuck at a stand still in the story. Sukuna is the strongest and can't lose. However, Yuji is the son of the strongest sorcerer technically speaking, so he should surpass his father, but then Sukuna uses a binding vow to pull some shit. Yuji is a connection to Sukuna he is a worldly bond that is tieing Sukuna down allowing the sorcerers of this world to reach him.

Using you're circle theory, I say Nobaru is coming back. Before Hidden Inventory the Gojo Gang had a classmate who died on a mission (seen recently too in Gojo's death vision), so the opposite parallel will be a classmate coming back to life/still being alive. Nobaru confirmed

My boy so plot locked in the story he called out sick 😂😂😂

83k in 11 hours damn bro is actually relevant

Okay I know this is probably a dumb question but was the whole yuji domain expansion thing just fan drawings?

What if, after they defeat sukuna, instead of megumi becoming the bad guy due to sukunas influence and the "bath" like you had theorized, they realize that he is on the path to that and put his soul in Gota, making megumi the third soul in the cursed corpse. Megumi the id, gojo the ego, and yuta the superego. This would stabalize the cursed corpse and allow all 3 of them to still live on, especially since megumis body is quite literally just sukuna now.

😂 he expected to release the video on 26 June .

*“…Go/jo’s reawakening through the mind swapping technique.”* Ahh yes, there it is. Another Go/jo *COPE* Theory 😂😂😂😂☕️

Sounds like more history repeats itself than a time loop

Nick can you make a ranking video of the current strongest jutsu in boruto

i agree with most of what is said but like what other people are commenting, the time loop rhymes instead of repeats. based off the most recent leaks 18:48 would make so much sense because the last two panels of yuji telling sukuna to “lets go” ( i think) mirrored a panel of getou and gojo when getou first meets gojo in the airplane-afterlife. Yuji might have already broken the timeloop then. i dont know for-sure tho cuz i havent even read the manga, im just yapping 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I heard a theory in a youtube comment that takes this idea even further saying that the ending of JJK will resemble the Heian era with Yuta taking Kenjaku's role, Megumi taking Tengen's role, and Yuji taking Sukuna's role. It also ties well into the Megumi becoming a villain theory so if this is correct, Megumi would want to activate the Merger instead of Tengen wanting to stop it and Yuta would over time keep swapping bodies and Yuji would cut himself into 20 fingers in order to stop Megumi in the future. I don't know if I really believe this theory but I thought it was interesting since it relates to the cyclical nature of JJK and how roles of the past mirror the roles the characters are playing right now.

Gojo: You asked me something while. Am the strongest because I'm Satoru Gojo or am I Satoru Gojo because I'm the strongest? Geto: So, what? Gojo: I have your answer.

I think at one point during the fight, we should have switched to Hikari VS Uraume. I am genuinely curious to see if Uraume has a Domain Expansion or not.

great video. I had a similar Idea but not as in depth.

unrelated question but if kenjaku has idle transfigurations does he really need to use his own cursed technique to live?

Hey nick im at the gym and im wearing the same shirt as you right now. 🤘

Relax guys, Gege is just playing Elden Ring, he'll be back soon.

So are leaks out tonight or not? Cause mya didn’t say anything about it

What is that bowl of cheesy popcorn behind you?

This got released the same day 262 pt 2 leaks came out o_0

I'm surprised he didn't mention how tengen spefically said he/she doesn't know what will happen if the star plasma vesssel doesn't occur, perhaps events are overlapping