Sukuna glaze is not a bug but a feature

One thing I love is that sukuna technically doesnt even have a name. Ryomen sukuna is another title, another perception placed on him by others. Its so interesting and contradictory that for someone with such a strong sense of identity, sukuna could care less about actually definining that identity, he is routinely compared to a natural disaster, something devoid of a sense of self. Kenjaku falls in a similar boat, someone who has such a strong sense of self/selfish goal who is simultaneously a frankenstein monster of multiple souls and experiences, who's fundamental goal is tied to bringing others "enlightenment." Even kennys domain hand sign is a prayer to buddha instead of a representation of a god like the other sorcerers, he is a carrier of buddhas will as he sees it (enlightenment of others driven by his own selfish curiosity). Its just cool that all 3 pillars of jujutsu society are parasites, as you said, and all 3 have evolved past normal defenitions of identity.

32 minutes… i am seated

Not a parallel I would’ve made before this video, but I find it fascinating how All for One and Sukuna both sit at the ceiling of power in their respective manga, both revel in that isolation at the pinnacle, both pursue hedonism relentlessly, but they approach it from opposing ends. Where Sukuna embodies a world-crushing inhumanity, All for One conjures humanity’s ugliest aspects (pettiness, scorn, betrayal, hatred, despair) into an equally suffocating persona. Sukuna’s actions bely a tangled, unknowable mess of desires no human could ever understand, whereas AfO has always strived towards a pure, uncomplicated evil that could force anything and anyone to submit to him. Sukuna removes himself from the constraints of narrative to insert himself wherever he wishes, while AfO constantly taunts his enemies with how their place in the larger story renders their actions meaningless. Sukuna gives his opponents closure in death while AfO relishes how his presence denies others catharsis. However, what Rad highlighted the most for me is that Sukuna’s sense of self has never required a performance like AfO’s did. He’s always been unknowable, unreachable, unbound. Defeating All for One meant understanding his corrosive vision of humanity, as seen through Shigaraki and Deku's conflict. Defeating Sukuna, by contrast, will require unraveling his nigh-incomprehensible inhumanity, but I suspect through the merger Yuji will find a way to uproot himself from Sukuna's self-imposed narrative of the world.

I dont think Sukuna is as much of a hedonist as he is a nihilist. Sukuna's whole critic of sorcerers he's fought is their ideals, their motivation. Hedonism, as a philosophy, understands pleasure as an ideal, and you motivation should be achieving it. But Sukuna despises ideals. To him, they are sad self-imposed chains that stupid sorcerers give their lives for. Not even him has "pleasure" as an ideal, he just enjoys it when its there but doesn't miss it when its gone. This is also related to how he phrases that phrase, "I eat if I'm hungry". He does not actively search for pleasurable dishes to suit his palate, as much as he just reacts to hunger. He does not go out of his way to "rule the world" or to kill or battle more people, even though he enjoys those things. He just waits. This is NOT hedonism. Nihilism doesn't derive into dying by inanition either. It just negates any meaning beyond your own. In a nihilistic view (without partially negating nihilism with existencialism), every action is by whim. Sukuna has exactly that: he's unpredictable and capricious, only going out of his way to entertain himself for a moment. But because these whims have nothing but their own holders to become reality, it is up to the strength of the person to impose them onto reality. That's why only the strong rule in Sukuna's worldview. Only them have the strength to impose their whims and desires over the world, while the weak have to forget any of their own intentions and bend the knee. In a way, I think Sukuna appears divine because he is the personification of the world he's been born in. A world with sorcery is inherently unjust, doomed to be ruled by those gifted with power. Even among the few privileged sorcerers, there are power gaps that can't be bridged. Striving for one's own power and desires is the only way to live. So Sukuna, the perfection of Jujutsu, the epitome of sorcery fights, just adheres to the very philosophy the world itself is practically designed to favor. Selfish nihilism.

As a continuation of how the narrative, not Sukuna, grants him titles and works with him in furthering his prestige, I cannot recall Sukuna ever introducing himself to anyone. He never says "I am Ryomen Sukuna", nor does he even say the name itself. If that holds up (someone please correct me if I am wrong), then even his name is based on the perspectives the world and narrative have on his external deeds and features. He is known by his dual face (Ryomen) and his cursed-spirit like terror he causes (Sukuna). He might have never had a name, and never cared to grant himself one. In the pursuit of hedonism, strength and will and the mindset to take are the only identities needed. Titles, relationships, prestige, and possessions are superfluous and only in service to the pleasure of the "I". "I want, I crave, I dominate, I conquer, I am the Strongest".

Crazy thing is, Sukuna has never refered to himself as Ryomen Sukuna. Its almost as if he doesn't have a name

I once saw a post somewhere, I forget where its from I'll try and find it later. One of my favorite aspects about Sukuna that I feel goes underappreciated when compared to his intelligence, love of Jujutsu and fighting is how spontaneous he is. Lemme explain, in the Yorozu fight there was a period where Sukuna and Yorozu outright stopped fighting for a bit when she wrote that Haiku mentioned in the video, they were just scrapping a second ago and my man is confused about why there weren't seasonal words in her Haiku. During the Shibuya incident while fighting Jogo the man literally stopped to play red-light green-light with some random ass sorcerers and a whole ass meteor. When Mahito first attacked his soul by accident, Sukuna let him off because he felt like it due to them sharing a laugh at Yuji's suffering. After he fights Yuji and Maki when taking over Megumi, he doesn't even opt to kill Yuji despite having no use for him, he just laughs at him, compares him to a funny ass statue and leaves with Uraume even if killing him right then and there would've been optimal. And of course, how this grown ass man will take time out of his day to hate on what is essentially his nephew; it's honestly some of the best sides of his characterization in my eyes

Gojo and Sukuna are also kinda polar opposites. Sukuna was born with nothing and grew to do everything, whereas Gojo was born with everything and yet could do nothing. (A reflection of his domain, in which his explanation was “given everything and can’t do anything. Ironic? Isn’t it?”) Gojo was stated by the narrator to “burst onto the scene” at birth, a another example of Gojo forcing himself into the story/forcing his way into the title of the strongest (alongside him calling himself the honored one), whereas Sukuna’s title was always given to him. Gojo’s only satisfaction was in his death, Sukuna’s satisfaction has everything to do with his life. Not to mention their techniques and their symbolism, gojo’s being a complex and modern one and Sukuna’s being a simple and traditional technique (literally just cutting shit). Gojo wants to kill the higher ups due to their traditional views, while Sukuna embodies that traditionalism that Gojo hates. The two strongest characters are so different and it’s beautiful writing. Despite all the shit Gege gets for Sukuna kaisen and the Sukuna cycle (and his 2 week breaks every other week💀), he’s a master of a writer.

Just a note at 12:50 Sukuna’s open barrier domain is not created from a binding vow, but rather due to the unknown ability in which he creates an open barrier domain, it automatically makes a binding vow, because there is a path of escape the radius increases.

I don't know why people are upset sukuna is as strong as he is, the whole time they said he is him. And he is

Since it was revealed that Sukuna was starving in the womb to point he ate his own twin, I've interpreted that as a major reason for Sukuna's selfish personality and insatiable hunger. Based on the cursed womb paintings having blood manipulation just from Kenjaku mixing his blood into the pregnacy, and Sukuna's 4 armed body, its implied that cursed techniques, the body, the soul, etc are very maleable in the womb, able to be shaped in a similar way to what Mahito did with people. I think this could explain Sukuna's nature and sense of self, as well as why his cursed technique is related to eating in the first place. The Innate Domain (which is the basis for the person's Curse Technique) is a mental landscape that reflects a person's mind and soul. And since Sukuna was starving while in the womb, his Innate Domain reflects his hunger and willingness to do anything to eat and survive. Its possible that Sukuna wouldn't have even had a cursed technique at all if it he hadn't been starving while in the womb, and the reason he is so hedonistic and constantly seeking to "eat" his fill is because his soul and mind were shaped in the womb to reflect a starving child. And when you're literally starving, things like morals, ideals, love, and humanity are worthless. The ONLY thing that matters, is getting your next meal.

I believe Gojo got exactly what he wanted in the end. Gege can say all he wants about his character, but I feel like Gojo knew he would most likely die, he just wanted a chance to actually go full out against someone. Gojo is extremely lonely, potentially the loneless jjk character overall. He spends his whole life seeking out the strongest people because he just wants that connection. He wants to be understood. I believe Gojo and Sukuna both gave each other exactly what they needed. They both exterted the same selfish unrestraint. Because Sukuna thrills in battle, in strategy and power, and Gojo just wants to be matched fairly and pushed to his limits. %10000 don't think Gojo really intended to win. Like he believed he would win, but I sincerely think he was thrilled to be finally defeated. He saw a battle against Sukuna as either a win or a win. Dying to Sukuna or beating him; both were wins in Gojos eyes.

Sukuna is like majin buu but actually smarter. The best part about him is that his nicknames are given to him by people not like gojo who calls himself honoured one.

At this point Sukuna already cemented himself as a great shonen villain. He has what he always wanted. All odds against him

the goat and it's not close man

I really like this attention to detail writers add, where the more powerful a character is the wiser and more basic their intentions are. Realistically Sukuna has a good point within his own world view and the only reason anyone even argues against him is because they’ll die. Feel like the thing which screams this the most is his in character refusal to insult someone about who they are, but insult what he sees them do or fail to do. He’s not hateful (until he gets hit with 8 black flashes consecutively), bro is the EMBODIMENT of “Powerful people have better things to do.” Honestly who wanna bet Sukuna probably wouldn’t even kill anyone if no one performed any violent act towards him.

Sukuna also doesn't understand others fully. Yes, Sukuna is abnormal and forces the narrative to his desires but he also is suffering as of late and all of that is because of Yuji. We are alliens to Sukuna but the same applies to him. Sukuna broke his own hedonistic and self serving nature in chapter 248. Instead of being content with Yuji learning RCT and the prospect of a more interesting fight, he gets extremely infuriated and has a moment very similar to Toji in his second fight against Gojo. Sukuna isn't an abstract diety anymore. He has been pulled from the heavens by Yuji.

I do believe sukuna veiw everyone as “getting it all wrong”. To him he knows what reality really is, he isn’t faking anything about himself or his desires and how he extracts that from the world. To him he is the only one who u destined cursed energy but it amuses him when someone accidentally begins to grasp the truth of cursed energy. This might be why yuji pisses him off, it’s like being a know it all who is usually right and other people guess the right answer but you know they don’t actually grasp the material.

Radman's videos make me appreciate this series so much more. These are aspects of Gege's writting that are overlooked. You have to look deeper like this.

The video: Why Sukuna is HIM

another gift for the community, thats what your videos are. Ty for another one!

Sukuna's cursed spirit part come from the fact that humans create a divine deity in order to worship and fear it. This is the most primal source of all religion in the world. In every religion gods cannot be fully understandable and cannot be fully percieved.

i am not moving an inch while watching this

There are a few little pieces to this I personally disagree with, but like with your Higuruma analysis, I deeply respect your analysis and the premises you built it on, and I see nothing to criticize. I love the way you point out how the narration tries to force a perception of Sukuna onto him that he refuses to abide by. In a series that's so interested with identity and perception, it's such a genius detail that I'm kicking myself for not seeing before now. For me, it's very interesting how the values the series expounds at the start of the series are muddied so badly by Sukuna and Kenjaku. The series starts out (and never really stops) criticizing the conservative and restrictive politics of Japan, the toxic collectivism that punishes people who won't conform and destroy the individual for the sake of the exploitative whole. But Sukuna and Kenjaku represent the biggest problem with that philosophy: that taken to its conclusion, it can and will create egotists who express their agency by taking away the agency of others, exploiting them out of greed and making the world unsafe. So the series ends up critiquing its own philosophy. How can you reconcile this? The toxic communalism that lies at one extreme, the hostile individualism that lies at the other. Do you need to pick one or the other? Can it really be as simple as finding a middle ground? Or is this perceived duality between one's own needs and the needs of others just that: a matter of perception where they aren't as neatly separate as they seem? I have a lot of other thoughts about how to analyze Sukuna, but I've decided I'll keep them to myself until the series is over. That will give me time to polish my ideas. In any case, this was another fantastic analysis from you! I was riveted from start to finish and have a lot of food for thought now. I had seen Sukuna as just a nihilist for a while now, but I'm going to have to consider if I see him as part-nihilist, part-hedonist or purely hedonist instead of nihilist. Looking forward to your next video!

The main thing to understand is that sukuna is in every definition an actual psychopath, from the fact he fails to understand the significance of abstract concepts, hyper practical ability, his insane readiness to jump into fight after fight despite the danger, Him having no care for the rights of others, & sukuna being completely high off the fact he’s the strongest. For the story of jjk, this is very important as it shows what it takes for characters to stay true to themselves & those they care about in a world that’s constantly playing against them, curse or not, as sukuna cannot truly care for anything other than himself being above others, practically, it’s the only thing that truly matters in jujutsu society, & then from there he has nothing to worry about other than fueling his spontaneous desires. It’s the fight in jjk against unfair indifferences & your tenacity to overcome those obstacles of indifference differentiates the weak from the strong, & the main way the characters fight sukuna is by having the primary foil to someone like him, being psychotic in a clinical sense, ideals go hand & hand with abstract concepts as ideals primarily are abstract ideas made to solve a non physical perceptive problem, sukuna being too based in reality, & cannot practically understand why all the sorcerers he comes across use ideals against him as an ideal doesn’t carry anything concrete in the world so it shouldn’t matter, yet in the end it will because ideals are made to give people a different perceptive solution to seemingly impossible to solve problems that sukuna will fall. Seeing the world too much as is as compared as it could be will be what takes him out.

Jjk is about killing the past so that the future can prosper. Think about it, the old sorcerers and Sukuna represent an era of brutality and barbarism that has been rejected by modern society and by getting rid of them, jujutsu society can move forward not led by raw strength, cutthroat ambition, and old ghosts, but by a new generation, determination, and intellect.

I kind of get the vibe that as a cursed and unwanted child it was probably something along the lines of his mother having an affair with someone in a higher social or political standing than her and the consequences of it all. Maybe she was just hiding the pregnancy and not eating enough food for the twins as to not raise suspicion but ultimately with the goal of using the live children in some kind of power move against the sperm donor. Just a theory, but I do think he was technically born into aristocracy but in the rags to riches way.

Grsat video, I really like how you segmented your parts. 2 weeks ago I commented on KOL's last JJK stream about Sukuna being poor not getting good regularly. "What I think is hilarious is that Sukuna's powers are like response of the fact that he was born broke. So broke that he ate his own brother while his mother was pregnant. So broke that he couldn't eat cooked food. The cleaving, dismantling and a furnace. The men became strong because of poverty." That's how I saw it. His humble beginning's might have been the start of his Divinity.

Peak video, peak writing, and peak music choice with Chrono Trigger ost at the end

The Agenda shall be adapted to perfection with this! We will continue to push the Sukuna Agenda till the end of time!

Your jjk commentary is always insightful, thanks for the video.

Them: "How hard do you glaze Sukuna?" Me:

Another banger. I wouldn't have guessed he spoke like that even though he's ancient, purely because of the casual tone. I also realized Gege was trying to make the character opaque, but he always came off "quirky" whereas it's starting to look a lot more cohesive now.

Great video. I think you're the best youtuber when it comes to actual analysis of jjk. Powerscaling is great but I'm much more happy to see videos like these

32 mins of sukuna glaze…. I used to pray for times like this

Amazing video as always! Thank you for this glorious meal.

This video was perfect. Full glaze idc. Seated the entire time listening without being able to take my eyes off. Keep it up.

The problem with people not understanding him is that they don’t accept statements that gege makes through him as truth, they find everything he does as bullshit and ass pulls and people just don’t want to understand sukunas character or his personality at least when ooo shiny object gojo exists

8:07 made me realize that Yuji is likely going to be able to give Sukuna a "proper death". To me, it would make the most sense narratively

With all this considered, Sukuna fits Nietzsche's Übermensch concept, corroborating the thesis that those who find and remain true to themselves are the strongest.

Sukuna being so one dimensional and yet very deep is amazing writing

Put simply, Sukuna's philosophy is like the Reio's. Whatever goal he sets his mind to achieve, he WILL see it through thoroughly even if it means he allows himself to be mutilated and sealed away for millions (a thousand) years (which is curious now that I think about it, because Yhwach also awakens after 1000 years). The only difference being that Reio's goal was achieved WITH his mutilation as it led up to the current era of Bleach, whereas with Sukuna, the mutilation LED TO his goal in the present day of JJK. (again, wherever they are dissimilar, Yhwach parallels Sukuna) Reio could've regained his lost body parts and power at any point in Bleach and went on a killing spree just like Sukuna, and on the flip side, Sukuna could've allowed himself to be used by the Jujutsu society like a cog alongside Yuji to take down all curses but went the other route instead. (again, Yhwach parallels this) King of Curses: Power system revolves around curses and curse energy. Soul King/King Of Quincy: Power system revolves around souls and soul/spirit energy. Where Sukuna ate his twin and claimed divinity as his right and said twin sired a son who would oppose him, the Reio started out as divine but sired a son who would later threaten his divinity and inversely eat him up (as Sukuna did his twin). I never actually thought about Sukuna's actual existence and the significance it has to the very world of JJK too deeply until now, he is by all intents and purposes a deity, a god that can choose to do whatever he deems "right" and the world would shape itself around his will. I always had this crazy theory that Yhwach was just the Reio's Zanpakutou spirit (or equivalent of, since Zanpakutou didn't exist at the time as they do now). Similar to how Stark can split his soul into other lifeforms that share his power. Following the story of Christ, Reio would've sent down the "Holy Spirit" to impregnate a human woman, so a "part of himself" making Yhwach technically just a part of Reio from the beginning. Him calling him "father" is no different from Jesus calling God "father" despite being a part of the Divine Trinity that is God. In that sense, one could argue that the part of Reio that wanted progression ironically had to be sealed forever stagnated in time, and the part that wanted stagnation to begin with was born as a human, Yhwach. When you look at it from that perspective, Yhwach absorbing Reio then parallels Sukuna even more since technically, they would both be "eating" their other "half" (Reio was more powerful, and in JJK, one twin would usually be more powerful). Sukuna is the realised form a what Yhwach+Reio as one being would look like. lol, I was only going to talk about Sukuna and Reio and it branched off into Yhwach as well (yes, I went back and put Yhwach's parallels in brackets midway through typing this. Anyway, thank you for reading. It's just a random thought that I had when Radman got to explaining the Deity stuff about Sukuna so I thought I'd just type it out as a comment, I didn't know it would become a whole essay (sorry about that😂). TLDR: Sukuna is to JJK what Reio is to Bleach, essentially.

I do enjoy how Sukuna kinda won already. Even if he dies, he’ll go out in a bang like he always wanted… but if Yuji kills him and proves that his ideology that living for yourself is the only way to be strong, that may be different. Curious to know his response when all is said and done.

When you think about it, Sukuna never say his name out loud yet. Says a lot about his character.

Christ bless you, i just noticed that the narrator boxes are different for Sukuna. Thanks!

I don't know if this perspective is out there, but this is my take. The whole point of JJK is that we need relationships. Yuji represents the pinnacle of a social lifestyle, and Sukuna is the pinnacle of an antisocial lifestyle (The Strongest), and when you pit the 2 extremes against each other, you see which lifestyle is correct. I'm gonna use the toji vs gojo fight as an example. At that time, Gojo was not "the strongest" and still had a connection with Geto. He was social. Toji was "the strongest" after breaking ties with his son, the only living person he cared about. He was antisocial, thus "the strongest." Gojo had to become "the strongest" in order to beat Toji, and that came with the consequence of his social life. Ever since that fight, Geto is kinda literally a ghost in Gojo's life. It's also important to note that Toji's one regret was losing his son. This fight shows that being the strongest is an unfulfilling life, and beating the strongest by becoming even stronger just repeats the cycle. That fight is happening now, but instead of Toji, it's Sukuna. But Sukuna is the literal pinnacle of that lifestyle, so there is no way to be stronger. That's why Gojo lost. It's not like fighting Toji, you can't just get stronger than him. There's gotta be another way. I don't know how the story's gonna do this, but somehow Yuji has to use the power of friendship to beat sukuna. We've already seen it, anytime he fights solo he loses, but in a duo he always wins. I suck at writing but I just want to point out the strongest characters suffer socially in becoming stronger. Obviously there's Gojo. Yuta literally has to command the bastardized spirit of his childhood friend. Yuta also has to throw away his humanity to possess Gojo. Maki can only reach her potential in strength with her twin sister dead. this is pretty halfbaked but there's something here.

The only critique I have of this video is the beginning where; Gojo, Toji, and Jogo are treated as “regular people” because their deaths aren’t seen. Yet, I think the opposite. We know they’re strong forces, we see the deaths of those weak all the time, but with those three we almost never see the killing blow but only the kill. As if it’s perverse to see the process and not just the result as the hierarchy shifts. They’re eaten by a bigger fish, but because of that; it shouldn’t be watched as it seems wrong, but nature still must take its course.

You pointed out literally everything and more that i had in mind when analyzing Sukuna. You ate this up. God, Gege cooked so hard when creating Sukuna

I would like to add that sukuna being the main character could be true because authors tend to name their manga’s first chapter after the main characters and wouldn’t you know the first chapter is named after sukuna…

Like kashimo said, why did sukuna become fingers and transcend time if he was just killing time until he died

Another great video Jjk is Sukuna Kaisen from Chapter 1 people just don't realise it

Sukuna is easily my top 1 pick for a villain in anime. If not my top 3. I’m definitely going to rewatch this video again later tonight.

tldr: I really like the analysis of Sukuna as a divine being and have little to add to it, so I yap about and point out his parallels with Gojo and his character What I find interesting to think about when looking at Gojo and Sukuna is that while portrayed as "divine", quite literally so with Gojo proclaiming himself the honored one and as the video describes in length with Sukuna, it only ever nets them descriptions of "Monster", with the Yujo chapters literally calling Gojo a "Monster" and Yuta wanting to take that burden form Gojo, making me think that while divine, they are closer to demons than gods, or perhaps I should say that cursed energy represents the demonic, while positive energy represents the holy and only by obtaining and mastering both does one reach "divinity", which is neither good nor bad, but just beyond human or perhaps (keepign it in line with buddhist themes) enlightened, unbound by human contructs and morality, which also perfectly plays into the fact that Sukuna gets to "win" at hedonism, despite it being humanly impossible. What's even more interesting to think about for me is that Gojo seemingly had a chance to obtain this same level of enlightenment, allbeit in a slightly different way, when he had his awakening against Toji. He asks Geto if they should just kill these people, remarking he wouldn't feel anything about it, implying not even sad or angry, but Geto, the only one he as of that moment respects and relates to (remember it was WE'RE the strongest, not I AM) chains him down with morality and humanity, keeping him from becoming what Sukuna became, keeping him human, instead of a transcending deity. This however doesn't mean that as mentioned god knows how much, that he is AS human as the others. He is the Strongest. He is the pinnacle so far above others that he can't relate to them. He is infinitely closer to enlightenment than anyone other than Sukuna (but ever so unable to reach it, just like his infinity hehe), but just yet human enough to crave companionship. And that feeling, not the fact that he is alone, but the FEELING of loneliness, is the only thing still chaining him to humanity, while also being his biggest, or perhaps even, only flaw as a sorcerer. It's what prevents him from becoming divine as compared to Sukuna who has managed to even overcome (or perhaps never had it to begin with) that need for companionship. And even more interesting at that is, that was a CHOICE Gojo made, he could have forced his way through Geto and killed them all had he wanted to forsake his humanity completely. Quite easily so as a matter of fact. Geto impplies this when he said that if he was Gojo, if he was as close to divinity, all it would take to wipe out humanity would be him choosing to do so. But he doesn't, he chooses to remain human, and narratively I believe this is the reason why he couldn't win against Sukuna, even if his infinity was superior, even if he was the better combatant, even if he was the "strongest", because he is the strongest HUMAN (by choice), while Sukuna is a divine being.

NINE MINUTES IN AND YOU'RE ALREADY BLOWING MY MIND 🤯

How are the manga images in this video so high quality ?

The pursuit of pleasure is, in itself, a source of pleasure for me.

Man... Every single time you make a video about jjk I like it more and more... Not a single time I've felt that you make something up, you just reframe something that may catch my attention but couldn't completely process. This might be the most fascinating example of that. The narrator being wrong and asking why broke my brain, I found it weird at the time but it makes so much sense.

I only began following JJK in the last year, but I knew about the general plot of the early chapters. It was funny to me to see villains pop up and the protags get stronger to overcome them while the audience knows the final boss is following the protagonist around the whole time. It set a tension that seemed to get stronger and weaker over time, with people beginning to call Sukuna a fraud. But if he really is the King of Curses and the fear Jogo showed around him was well-deserved, there would have to be an arc where Sukuna has strength feats that establish him as thus. Sukuna kaisen feels well-earned to me. We are going through what people in the Heian era experienced where every competent fighter in the area is drawn in this vortex towards Sukuna and he grinds them all up and spits them out, loving the challenge the whole time. The idea of The Strongest becoming the focal point of the world is taken literally here and I'm all for it.

lovely video as always man

What I love about Sukuna as a villain is that I just can’t picture him losing. When pit up against a stronger character from another series like Luffy or naruto who clearly outclass his feats of strength and speed I can’t see Sukuna winning. But my brain simply can’t imagine Sukuna ever losing a fight. I think that’s a textbook example of “Aura”.

This is why he’s my favorite villain in all of anime amazing video 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

8:45 i only now noticed hes holding his cursed tools in this shot god damn

Sounds like the paradox of hedonism assumes that people do not regulate and generate their own emotions. Basic buddhist teachings disprove this. Even when life is suffering you must me the pillar that generates worth for yourself.

One of the best videos hands down

Sukuna talking to the reader in a way was really cool, thanks for pointing that out.

This was a great, well thought out video.

Amazing analysis, but be prepare gojostans gonna come here and start barking and spamming in here coment section..(thats what they are doing since 236)

this is the hardest 30 minute sukuna glaze sesh ever. bravo son, you've donated all of your aura to this anime character. now you are in aura debt for the next 30 years.

I still love Mahito more as a villain, but Sukuna throughout since his initial fight with Gojo has grown on me a bunch, and he is truly one to stand above the many.

This video has to be top 5 best JJK analysis videos ever🤯

I think gege here does an amazing job of fleshing out a character who in and of itself is a whole paradox. A being who doesn't portray the usual tell tale markers of humanity, yet was born human. Sukuna has a body, a soul, thinks and talks, banters and shares perceptions... Yet his existence could just be explained that as of a creature with higher intelligence. No one in that universe relates to Sukuna, no one understands him on a level he would agree with wholeheartedly, none can even be interpreted as similar. Sure, if you chalk effects felt through action as a power, some can sort of get near him...but sort of near isn't close and those terms are relative. Use of Jujutsu? I mean, it's an inherent truth in this world, some similarities are bound into the physics of whatever universe inhabits it, and all the creatures that reside in it. Just being able to do one of the things Sukuna does not make you similar at a fundamental level. Sukuna is born human and also becomes almost divine, but is neither divine nor human nor an innocuous footnote in time. He shares the human experience with the sorcers he meets but he didn't really experience his time alive as a human. It's almost like, and I'll absolutely say this is opinion... That Yuji is the embodiment of humanity's fight against intangible aspects of our existence. Sukuna, is an intangible aspect of life made physical. Sukuna doesn't make sense so far. But as we learn more, he either will or completely just stay a paradox.

I feel like a learned a lot. But this videos title and the last thing you said in it is telling me that I actually didn’t learn anything.

Another piece of art of a video

Great video Radman

Yo these videos are making me appreciate at lot more about this manga that would have definitely gone completely under the radar, THE GOAT of video essays unquestionably

the fact this just made me understand him better

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32 minutes of Sukuna glazing, I'm all for it

I like the video but the last stretch about Sukuna being about above the narrator is a big stretch. For example Sukuna was just explaining what happened to the almost dead or already dead Gojo.

I enjoyed thx for the vid

Sukuna is the father of gojo 4 arms 2 faces and multiple mouths Largest curse energy reserve in history more than okkotsu Dismantle a long ranges slash that can cut anything and after mahoraga's model it can cut even reality. Cleave a touch based technique that can instantly cut you if the hand touches you no matter what is your durability And lastly the divine flame (kitchen hearth) his ultimate attack godly as his domain Sukuna rules.

It is now an official canon fact that Akutami has confirmed Gojo dead and offscreened with the funeral portrait No more smoking opium for Gojo fans since its effing up their brains Thank you Radman🙏 And thank you 🐐Akutami Sensei👑 The pain Ost in the background❤❤❤❤❤

Sukuna is, by far, my favorite fictional character. No other character in any book, movie, or anime comes close. He's beautiful lmao But it's really not that hard to understand the idiot. Sure, you will never get a 'one-to-one' understanding of him. But you don't get that with anyone. Every human being is a temple that people only ever get a glimpse inside of. You aren't standing inside it. You can understand Suku-Chan because he isn't inhuman. He isn't an eldritch, unknowable b!tch. Gojo and friends weren't able to understand Suku-Chan because they were trying to fit him into the boxes they lived by and, of course, because they weren't given all the details the readers get. And even if they DID they probably wouldn't have changed the 'lens' they seen him through, either. Because that's the type of characters they were You mentioned that it seemed like Suku-Chan would put himself through pain or boredom to further reach a greater pleasure he wanted, but you phrase it like the pain and boredom was something Suku-Chan gaf about. He comes off as someone who doesn't care about how he is perceived. He is sitting on top of his mountain as the top dog, so why should he care about the opinion of insects? Most people attribute lack of stimulation to be painful, boring. But that's assuming Suku-Chan isn't using those months trapped inside Itadori to meditate or work through some big-brain play or remember past slaughter. Getting hurt in a fight seems like a negative to most people, but is it for Suku-Chan? It could add to the thrill of the fight. He might even be masochistic. He might get off on that sh!t, the same way he probably gets off on having a sick ahh domain, on being at the top, at killing people. He runs on eating, killing, and fighting. The narrative tells you the world lives and dies by his pleasure and displeasure, but is SUKU-Chan saying that? What have we actually seem that has displeased him? Popcorn and Yuuji? Suku-Chan seems less like someone that goes hunting for the next thing that will bring him enjoyment and more someone who is submerged in apathy until some interesting thing comes along and catches his attention. But apathy doesn't have to be the negative, incel-lens that most people assume it to be. Not for someone as uncaring as Sukuna who is above it all So, in that sense, he acts like a god, sitting on his little mountain. But there's a difference between simply 'being perceived as something' and 'WANTING to be perceived as that thing'.

Small note on that greek legend of two-halved people: that was actually a legend made as one of the earliest arguments in favor of homosexuality. It so went that people who were originally bound to another of the same sex were gay, and the others were straight. Thus, homosexuality was not a perversion of some sort, but rather a natural and divine part of their prior lives as fused beings.

Yep. This is the best Sukuna video. Yeah

Sukuna is the Tanjimoro of JJK fr fr 👍

love the music choice

While I haven't watched or read JJK, the way you described Sukuna's actions and personal philosophy reminded me quite a lot of this one obscure(ish) philosopher (though he didn't like the term) that has vastly influenced me known mostly as Max Stirner. I really wish I could get into the nitty gritty of Stirner's writings in his book "The Unique and Its Property," but I will unfortunately have to settle for a superficial, inaccurate overview of what Stirner's philosophy was. Basically, he rejected ideals like religion, humanism, morality, collectivism, and a whole bunch of other things as nothing more than phantasms that haunt the mind, as if these concepts, despite not being sentient, acted to make their adherents into their property. Stirner's rejection of these ideals, however, were limited only by how useful they were to him. Kind of like when Sukuna was talking about how he thought sorcerers were stupid for holding close to ideals instead of doing as they please. Paraphrasing here, Stirner said he was not against socialism, but rather sacred socialism: keep in mind this was before anarcho-communism was established as a coherent strain of libertarian leftism, so Stirner, being a contemporary of Marx's, was critiquing the socialism espoused by Marx, which advocated for an authoritarian state run by the working class. Stirner disliked Marxism because it advocated for a society in which the individual was subject to the power of the collective. However, Stirner was not referring to the individual as a coherent, defined thing which had certain inalienable rights, as John Locke and his ilk would, but rather as... I don't really know how to describe it... Stirner calls this fuzzy concept "The Unique." From what I understand, it's the you behind you: the personal will behind your whims and identity, a "creative nothing" as he called it, as if it were the empty void which Yahweh/God/Allah spoke life and being into. It is the Unique which defines itself, and it does so on a whim. It's not supposed to be pinned down or understood by anyone but the Unique itself. You decide what you become, if anything at all. You decide who and what you are, if anything at all. Now, I bet you're wondering, "What does Sukuna have to do with this?" Well, let's take this one step at a time. Let's look at Sukuna's relationship with pleasure: after all, the narrator did say that all which existed was his pleasure and displeasure. This may make Sukuna seem like a hedonist, like Mahito, but the difference between Mahito and Sukuna is that Mahito is haunted by his hedonism, while Sukuna is willing to set his hedonism aside if it means he may attain later pleasures, or really for any reason. Mahito is a selfish psychopath because he's a cowardly, sadistic hedonist, while Sukuna is selfish because it's simply what makes the most sense to him, as well as what he personally wants. He doesn't deserve anything, and he knows it, but he doesn't care. Sukuna's affairs are based on nothing: nothing but his Unique, nothing but his creative nothing. As for him, it manifests in the form of a psychopathic genocider who wants to dominate everything, but still, it's his Unique at work here. He doesn't care what others think of him. He doesn't care about people's expectations. He'll never boast unless its for his personal entertainment. He'll praise the cursed spirit Jogo for his determination, despite the fact that Jogo is so much weaker than him, telling me that his whole "strong dominating the weak thing" is yet another belief of his which he doesn't let possess his Unique and define him fully. He'll wear a kimono despite the fact that it's supposed to be "feminine" because he recognizes that gender roles are nothing but a phantasm which possesses people like property. If he worried about gender roles, he would have been unable to find clothing with such accommodating sleeves as a kimono for his two pairs of arms to fit through, disadvantaging himself in the process. It interests me somewhat to keep typing more about this-especially the part talking about the text boxes being superimposed instead of just white blocks-but I just don't really care enough, so I'm going to stop here. If any of you anarcho-nerds out there want to provide more of a Stirnerite analysis of Sukuna's behavior, then be my guest. I'm just sperging out the best way I know how, because the video reminded me of a philosopher who has impacted me more positively on an emotional and mental-health level than almost anything I've ever experienced in this life. If any of you read The Unique and Its Property, don't read it like a bible that dictates how you should live, but rather analysis on how you could be living. It's not a strict ideology, but rather tools you can use to secure your life for yourself. Just my few cents.

He is soo Godlike, that it needs a PAIN ost to describe his character🤯

Subscribed. Great analysis and perspective of the story

I think Sukuna gives his opponents a proper death so they won't curse his ass. But your theory might be true also.

A 32 minute video glazing Sukuna? Hell yeah man, keep cooking

Yes I do he's just a really funny man with four arms and the nightmare fredbear mouth

Interesting analysis. Sukuna is so complex XD

who I REALLY can’t understand is hakari

Tbh how I see Sukuna in short is like the joker an I see the joker as not insane but someone with no care in any world he will be dropped into

Sukuna needing to explain what he did to the Narrator is amazing.

Love this British English literature analysis of jjk

14:50 THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT MORE. Uraume is one my favorite examples of androgyny and possible trans/nonbinary representations in modern media because of how their gender representation is both so understated and yet very present in their characterization. Uraume is literally Sukuna’s lapdog, and only does things in service to him, meaning they probably have no real use for gender or sexuality as concepts for themself. It’s so funny how much the JJK community argues over Uraume’s gender when Uraume themself would probably say “who cares?”