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Sukuna is not ready from florida and ohio sorcerer's

The Gege didn't want the extra work.

When you put it like that, it sounds like most of the problems in jjk are caused by Tengen lol.

Because I wasn't born there

I imagine sorcery in other parts of the world is likely pretty similar to real world sorcery. Jujutsu is already incredibly similar to existing religious ideas. Something like a cursed technique based on the Lemegeton- it would probably function similarly to the ten shadows. With the hundreds of demons within it. If Mahoraga is that strong I would not want to know how powerful Bael or Asmoday would be considering how they represent two parts of human behavior itself. Binding vows may be incredibly important, as in western sorcery you see a lot of only being able to preform certain spells on certain hours or on certain days. I had the theory that a Christian exorcism would be a reverse cursed technique, but now I think about it. It would probably be a simple domain. Grimorium Verum is another text uses to summon demons. Bael appears in that again as Beezlebub, Asataroth is present, and Lucifer's iconic summon sighn is quite litteraly from that book. Those are just three of many. If anyone possesed a cursed technique- I would imagine this would be the most powerful Shikigami summoning technique available. Beezlebub would without any doubt dog walk mahoraga. If you know anything about Caanite mythology you know why. This is assuming they would be Shikigami though. We saw Tamamo no Mea was a Curse- which leads me to believe that demons like Belphelgor, Andras, Farcas, Beleth, Belial, Lucifer, Beezlebub, and (Possibly Asmoday- I will discuss him in a moment) would be curses. Someone like Asmoday would likely be a cursed object. It was said he was close to Solomon in some texts, but in almost every interation wasnt fully demon. I think it would be a stretch to say a cursed womb, but definitely something more than human. More like Sukuna. There are also mentions of heredity based abilities. Think of the Messiah. Think of Solomon's Wisdom. Jesus is accordingly depended from Solomon and David, of which Solomon was historically given all the same gifts by Sheba that Jesus received from the three magi. In the case of Solomon's wisdom, Solomon can easily give his son the wisdom but cannot give it to anyone else since they cannot comprehend it without the archangel's permission. I bring this up, because Solomon would likely be the Gojo of western sorcery. He has multiple cursed techniques and cursed tools- This was a bit of rambling but my fan conjecture and headcannon finally got the chance to express some of my ideas here so I did.

So in plain terms: Japan is the easy zone in terms of learning sorcery while the rest of the world is hard mode for sorcery

Because that one chinese sorcerer who was never seen but was mentioned to be feared by sukuna wiped out rest of them

While Tengen is the forced narrative reason to make it “make sense”, I really do also think this is Gege’s social commentary on Japan culturally. Japan is unfortunately known for having one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and there are a lot of reasons for that ranging from intense schooling to lifeless corporate jobs to the extremely duty-bound moral framework that most Japanese people think in terms of (and there are more reasons than those too). Just for one example narratively speaking, a character like Nanami also embodies some of these concepts.

My headcanon is that most sorccerers outside japan,which being a sorcerrer itself is a rarity and being outside of tengen's barrier being more rare,also don't have cursed techniques,have very low ce pools and can't even reinforce their bodies with ce so they end up being called mentally insane.

So sorcerer job is to kill curses to protect non sorceres, and first couse of existence of sorcerers and curses is tengen barrier presence. So why don't destroy it to reduce the existence of said curses to almost 0% and heving less deaths among normal people??

All of this is hand-waving for the real reason: The author did not want to deal with the consequences of multi-national jujutsu society. Cuz if the whole world had sorcerers, naturally the audience would wonder why aren't other nations sending in their sorcerers to help with the sukuna problem? Having a multi-national jujutsu society would trivialize sukuna, who is meant to be the big-bad boss. It would also trivialize what kenjaku is doing. Another point: It's already ludicrous that there is a secret society of wizard people and somehow, through some miracle, they keep their existence a secret from the populace. Adding multiple nations with their own sorcerers just makes it that much harder to suspend the disbelief of this secret being maintained.

I think the idea of a limiting factor on human potential when it comes to curses is pretty interesting. I hope we delve into why Tengen went down the path she did before the end of the series, and how she relates to Kenjaku and Sukuna. I think they have a very interesting trio thing going on where Tengen is the bedrock and amplifier of jujutsu, Kenjaku the scientist, and Sukuna the self-involved warrior-monk who is likely emblematic of why things went to shit (you can't count on people to use their gifts to the betterment of others). I suspect originally Tengen had the idea of strengthening cursed users so they would be able to create a better world and Sukuna, being represented as this sort of prodigy, was perhaps taught by Tengen and seen as a leader who could inact this vision because of his strength, but he rejected her idea of the future of jujutsu. This would make sense given his status as "the fallen one" and serve to emphasize what the series has already pointed out in terms of the differences between those who use their power to advance society (Gojo) and those who leave nothing but destruction in their wake (Sukuna).

Keep in mind that Japan is the exception, not the rule. Most Sorcerers from around the world appear only as unique individuals or families with only one of two per country, and while they can control Curse Energy just as well, but they won't crazy abilities like Limitless or Ten Shadows, instead being more basic and straitforward, think Miguel or Larue, who have very simple techniques. Even some Japanese Sorcerers have pretty plain techniques, like Momo and Arata, who have very basic abilities. Japan has more Sorcerers and more powerful Sorcerers because it's easier to become one and have a powerful technique, while the rest of the world is what's to be expected. Other foreign Sorcerers are Charles and Reggie, who do have very good techniques, but they basically boil down to future vision and summoning, with Reggie requiring a surplus of physical items in order to do anything

Because that’s what the story calls for let’s be honest , Africa is about 80 times bigger than Japan and if y’all ever watch them African movies😮‍💨 Curses would be running amok like crazy.

my mind is running wild with story ideas after watching this, Brodi. like if Australia had CE, all the crazy CTs involving venoms and weird lil guys; American Sorcerers would just have arsenal-based CE/Ts, so many directions it could go 🙌

And yet for some reason Gojo decided to send his special grade student (which there is literally 1 in whole Japan excluding Gojo and Yuta) to Africa to probably a single sorcerer on whole continent for some reason

Australian Sorcerer solos Japan

yo W vid keep up the good work

Bro I low-key needed this explanation!

Needed this video

Actually helpful vid that answered a question i didn't know the answer to or thought even had an answer in canon (besides obligatory "writer is Japanese"), thank you.

The real answer is because gege isnt good at worldbuilding so he just limited everything to Japan

That begs the question, would Gojo and sukuna be as special if tengens barriers were around the world? *key word “as” special*

Does it mean that withouth Tengen curses would also be much rarer and weaker? So, in a way, Tengen is a detriment to Japan?

I wonder, does this imply that Tengen is also the cause for curse spirits? 'Cause if not, then how come there aren't special grades like Mahito and Jogo popping up allover the globe?

Imagine how crazy some other countries people would go Miguel already came in with a unique powerful technique,so I wonder what other foreign sorcerors could bring in

Ngl I feel like NYC would be crawling curses

Why would Tengen do this then? Making more sorcerers is worth creating more and more dangerous curses?

Yo I love your jjk content but when’s your next one piece video

i really wanted a spin off of other country sorcerers like it would be really cool

I think another factor is that most of, if not all of the schools and people who can see potential in people, reside in japan.

can we compare tengen from jjk to the soul king from bleach ?

0:05 "thats not the case" Yeah but in a literal sense yes, that is the case. There are in verse reasons and lore behind it, but its pretty clear gege just doesnt want to deal with other countries (which is fine and makes sense)

Oooooooooh! Makes sense now.

Does the fact that more characters can create positive energy now mean curses are way weaker since it's so good on them? I'm not a manga reader but it seems at this (sukuna's) level no spirit would be difficult to kill. Also do you think a cursed spirit could create positive energy? Although weak to it I see no reason why they couldn't do the same thing.

There’s a good chance sorcerers exist everywhere but more concentrated in places with lower overall happiness

This is what Kenjaku wanted. Optimizing curse energy but on a much much larger scale than Japan and with a lot more percentage of sorcerers among regular people.

Aren't there middle eastern sorcerers? Whay do they use explosive techniques 😅

It’s because Gege is to 🐱 to make any American or Mexican sorcerers and curses

my jjk character is half black and has some ancestors from the nootka tribe which is why there cursed technique involves the god haietlik

I thought it was just because japan had a lot of unhappy people

So they do have a monopoly

not related, but i would love to hear your opinion on Neon Genesis Evangelion if you have watched it

then what about curse spirits? why is there more in japan, not only in quantity but also in quality ??

So are curses just as bad everywhere else, or are they also just in Japan. If so, can't they just not leave Japan to wreck stuff on places with less sorcerers?

ngl I thought tengen was the kyoto principle

So what youre saying is miguel is a minority?

Yeah very suspicious that tengen is doing this stuff. Wouldn’t be a need for more sorcerers if there was less CE and curses… why do you think Tengen does this?

Funny, there's someone else in the story who's all up in the walls about wanting to optimize cursed energy! Even globally! He even consider Tengen an old friend :) what a nice guy

The answer is tengen culling games (we need more info from gege)😅

Could this mean that there is someone stronger than Gojo and Sukuna outside of Japan?

Ima just pretend that I never heard this answer.

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So then what’s different about the way a sorcerers brain operates vs a regular humans? Could tengen merge w Mahito and transfigure everyone to become a sorcerer then?

Imagine the curse energy that would exist in Africa if Tengen didn't make a barrier. Would create far worse things than the disaster curses.

At least for my hero it’s around the world not in a specific country thanks gege

Because it's made in Japan. Just like how in alien movies, they always attack the US

The answer is because Gege wanted it that way

Ok but why is tengen doing that ?

Or there is a better explanation: There are less "sorcerers" outside of Japan because it's very likely that religions especially monotheistic ones and people's faith somehow help mitigate the "negative energies" or maybe priests and rituals are directly cleansing people of curses without even seeing them. Remember, Japan is one if not the most atheistic countries in the world.

Wait….so it’s Tengen’s fault that cursed spirits are rampant in Japan?

So, if we remove the barrier, wouldn't that resolve the biggest isue in jjk? Maybe Toji did nothing wrong (just kidding, toji was a jerk).

Its just like asking why 99% superheroes in Marvel are from US?

Huh. I thought it was because japan is sadder than the rest of the world thus creating more cursed energu causing more curses to manifest which in turn increases the necessity for sorcerers

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If you look at the percentages i wouldn't be surprised if Japan has a monopoly on negative energy......

Ngl this is one major thing about JJK that I don’t like. I would love to see an American Jujutsu Society that operates completely differently from the one in Japan. Different families that date back to old time periods that carry there own unique CT’s. I would love to see it. But for some reason authors keep doing this whole “it takes place in Japan” thing. Demon Slayer does this too.

I stopped someone from saying "first"

Because Gege was to lazy to expand the world lmao

So basically cause of tengen they have more jujutsu sorcerers that are also stronger but also cause of him there are more advanced cursed spirits loke the disaster curses and in general more curses overall so basically japan is on fire mostly cause of tengen need i remind u sukuna's fingers absorbed more and more CE over the 1000 years basically in heian era he was also way weaker since he had a lot less CE why exactly do they want to protect him so much at this point kill the guy he is clearly the root of everything even kenjakus plan revolves mostly on him

Still a weak explanation to justify poor writing

Racism. The story is set in Japan. You don't just handwave that away and then explain something that has no baring on reality. The AUTHOR is from Japan and only gives af about Japan... so his story is set there and it's the only place that matters. If it was written by an American author all sorcerers would be from NYC or some shlt. Dumb video.

Gojo is Serbian.