Ryomen Sukuna Works Too Well

[@gabrielreed1096]

My favorite aspect of Sukuna him not being befriendable. Him being irredeemably pure evil is what makes his character great. He isn't the 9 tails or Yami Yuji. There is no "taming" him. Every time he comes out the audience is reminded that he is an inner demon, something you should NEVER want to come out.

[@سلمانقتل]

Yuji 😢 Sukuna 😈

[@A1dunit]

Don’t think he’s pure evil

[@skotmatthews8940]

Sukuna means legs? Thats what it auto translates to me

[@gabrielreed1096]

@@skotmatthews8940 Really? I didn't know that

[@ICE4T]

he isnt. @@A1dunit

[@mariog.rodriguez2885]

“Overwhelming aggression… that disregards all else… like a Calamity”

[@سلمانقتل]

A lot of likes

[@soccerandtrack10]

@mariog.rodriguez2885 is it a korn army or a night lords army?,or both?...

[@Mastermind4life]

show me rock

[@SlacktivistWeeb]

Best representation of Sukuna. Damn I love this monster.

[@himanshurohewal1623]

Absolutely right you understood it properly. He is a calamity a real one.

[@matthewzaslavets8423]

A good part of what makes Sukuna great is that he is in fact very smart. With how much effort others put into making and realising their plans - Sukuna does it in the background, while having fun, and still comes out on top. He is similar to an honourable brute type of character, but with ao much foresight that pretty much nothing he does ends up being meaningless

[@سلمانقتل]

🐐

[@destinitaylor4360]

If, “Who said he was going to lose?” Was a person 😭 idk if this is gonna end with the hero’s clutching it up 🤣

[@Darth_Bateman]

1 of 2 things can happen. The heroes lose, and 1000 or summ odd years later a new cast and somehow Yuji appears and Sukuna's fingers are out in the wild. Or Yuji's past which has yet to be elaborated upon somehow plays an instrumental role in defeating Sukuna.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Are you the nah id win because you're the strongest or are you the stand proud because you’re with this treasure I summon

[@Darth_Bateman]

@@halfmettlealchemist8076 Bro bro. . . Wait until the week after this week. . .Bi-weekly break, THEN we go mad.

[@سلمانقتل]

😂😂😂

[@letsgobrandon1906]

What a dumb thing to joke about

[@PhantomHalf]

Yuji doesnt lose control Sukuna GAINS control

[@Becvar80]

And he does it by cheating SO HARD

[@chromtastic2092]

@@Becvar80I mean did anyone expect a guy named the king of curses to play fair in any fight?💀

[@Username-cs1bi]

​@@Becvar80 the evil antagonist/villain is not playing fair, WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT?!

[@Andres.Duran.J]

Let's say we have 2 political parties fighting over control of a town, If one already possesses it, but the other gains control of said town, would not that mean the other political party Lost control?

[@Lilith_Harbinger]

I really like how Sukuna is written as the "enemy within" trope. In most shonen anime (like bleach, naruto, inuyasha) where this trope shows up, we are supposed to be scared of this thing possessing the hero's body. But it never really works, because the thing appearing often helps the hero: it wins a difficult fight, it saves the hero from an injury, it kills other bad guys. Most importantly, there are never consequences for the thing appearing and the hero never loses control at inconvenient times. Sukuna completely flips this on its head by being an actual scheming villain, not a plot armor that only shows up when the hero needs to win a tough fight. He actually kills people. Yuuji is absolutely terrified of him and ***spoiler alert*** even considered killing himself after Sukuna gained control at one point. That's something you never see in shonen anime; it's like the hero loses control but afterwards it's all fun and games.

[@سلمانقتل]

🐐🔥

[@titoleon3101]

Except he never kills an actual good protagonist character while inside Yuuji and never gets a consistent reason for showing up sometimes and not doing it some others. Add a total lack of characterization and insight and all you get is a plot device for some destruction porn.

[@itsjustvin7630]

​@@titoleon3101isnt he the purest form of a hedonist? The ultimate jujutsu sorcerer that does things for their own sake and not for anything else?

[@TheyCallMeContra]

feel like you're doing a disservice to Hollow Ichigo's depiction heree tbqh

[@toasterenthusiast8023]

The moment that really made me appreciate Sukuna was when Yuji unleashed him on the first special grade they encounter and rather than just mindlessly destroying whatever was around him he thought of a way to ensure Yuji couldn't just use him and then put him back in the jar. So while he's not much of a scheming long term villain he's also really dang smart and knowing that at any time he could cash in on that deal and take over Yuji adds a lot of background tension and makes him feel like he's in control and he's playing our hero's rather than the other way around.

[@daanduijkers4845]

Oh... I can confirm that Sukuna HAS a long-term goal. It once again comes down to him just rampaging for fun, but it is a goal nonetheless.

[@zeroanonymity9736]

We're going through a very strange period of media. Where we've seen so many subversions of tropes or else ironic detatchment from them that well done examples of tropes taken seriously have become refreshing! Gojou and Sukuna both are straightforward yet still complex. It's wonderful to see!

[@Becvar80]

For all we know, this story is going to go Devilman Crybaby and end with Sukuna wiping out humanity.

[@strayorion2031]

@@Becvar80 nah, its not, every shonen does the thing in which the villain looks unebatable until they turn the tables, e.g. frieza, cell, majin buu, aizen, pain,

[@Watermelon_Man]

⁠@@strayorion2031 That’s just not true. The only accurate comparison you provided was Aizen (and it makes sense considering that JJK was most influenced by Bleach). As far as the other comparisons go, there were peaks and valleys with their power that made battles interesting because the potential for victory was always there. Every fight looked like it _could_ be the last one, but something would happen to turn the tides back in the villain’s favor. Aizen and Sukuna just aren’t even threatened in most of their fights. There’s not even any tension because the gap in capabilities is so blindingly obvious.

[@itsjustvin7630]

​@@strayorion2031Devilman is a shonen

[@TK-sn3rx]

​@strayorion2031 But they can still do it in creative or off the wall ways. When I think of a villain who seemed unbeatable, even against the strongest characters in their respective worlds, I think of characters like Meruem from Hunter x Hunter. Someone who is undeniably the peak of power that a living being can obtain - but then the humans decide to nuke him in close quarters. At this point, it'd be a bit unfulfilling for Sukuna to just die in a 1v1 or even being jumped without some serious considerations taken to make his defeat seem believable while still being interesting. I think many would be unsatisfied with Sukuna losing to the standard shounen tropes of "a bigger power up" or a sudden asspull. Luckily, JJK has done a fairly good job of straying from those tropes for the most part.

[@stevenmarecle5502]

He reminds me of 'Anton from no country for old men". When Anton would interact with a character, even gas station clerk, you'd have no idea if Anton would kill that character in cold blood on a whim.

[@travisminer9087]

So true. Also in Shibuya when he plays red light|green light with Jogos meteor, he plays with his helpless prey like Anton and his coin flips

[@DeLawrence97]

Literally in the first few episodes, when I saw my man Sukuna RIPPING YUJI's heart out to not give him back control(or rather ensuring Yuji's death upon him regaining it) while being so nonchalant about it I knew: "This mf. is NOT Kurama 2, Electric Boogaloo" As an anime only early on, it was impossible to not draw the Naruto parallell as Yuji and Megumi looked a lot like Naruto and Sasuke, visually at least (and personality wise to be fair). So naturally I thought Sukuna might turn out to be a Kurama situation which would've been lame, given the similarities. Buuut nope, Sukuna is simply bodying each and every one so far...and the difference in power is just...it's One Punch Man but as a villain. His demeanor, charisma and confidence are also huge contributors to his overall uniqueness. When this man says " I will kill X character", I believe him...as soul crushing as it may be to come to terms that our heroes' demise is sealed. Honestly I want JJK to be a tragedy in the end. I want Sukuna to win. I want the heroes to give their all, use every available tactic, but I want to simply see that Sukuna's simple mentality of being the Strongest is enough to win.

[@jon_ovo3653]

Dude!!! This is exactly what I want so bad!!!! I want him to win!!!

[@PlayOverHeaven]

Stand Proud Jogoat , you are strong - Ryomen Sukuna

[@wikkedfilms2786]

Same here. I want this to be one of the first new gen Shonen where the villian just wins. I want Sukuna on like his last legs panting like well done you ants and just end the series 😂. Sukuna been out for like 40+ chapters and got the whole fandom shook or complaining. Finally a 1000 years old villian who is actually intelligent and demonic. Thank you Gege.

[@steveharveysmustache3988]

I will say despite the fact that every character is getting folded he does feel like a true villain. A lot of “villains” these days don’t hold a lot of weight because we already know the hero is going to come out on top in the end, with sukuna I’m not too sure though. Him soloing the verse is definitely a possibility. Probably not as high probability as him eventually getting defeated but the probability is still there

[@damilarewilliams6425]

"He's so evil, he seems above villainy." Yup that's the one. Sukuna is above plotting and machinations.

[@johnlennon3107]

Didn't he have to plot for megumi's body to actually take on gojo. I would say that's my only issue with the writing. I wish he just overwhelmed gojo on his own strength even if fully manifesting is what it took

[@DOG_EATER_1887]

also him being friends with kenjaku, the exact opposite of that

[@justyouraveragehuman8694]

@@johnlennon3107 I have my gripes and worries with where the manga is going rn and the current fiasco goin on, but this is actually one of the points I disagree with. Sukuna doesn't, nor has ever striked me as the Yujiro Hanma type (has every trick up his sleeve but wants to win through brute force alone), he seems more like a dirty fighter that'll win with whatever means necessary. Furthermore the manga addresses the fact Sukuna has a gauntlet to run, he has to be conscious of his resources, and so took the path of least resistance to get through Gojo. That tells me that without Ten Shadows he would've had to invest significantly more in putting Gojo down, and considering it took roughly half of his total CE, I'd say he made the right call.

[@charnalk5572]

​@@justyouraveragehuman8694It's several times that he actually took the path of most resistance. The only reason he bothered with Mahoraga is so that he could gain new dismantle. Had he chosen to go all out, the fight would've ended with the first few domain clashes. The rest of the crew are so underneath him that he is still holding back, the only reason they have a fighting chance is because he miscalculated the domain clash and got caught losing his own domain and damaging his brain enough for his RCT and general output to decrease. He is overwhelmingly stronger, but he enjoys the fight and analyzing his opponents and learn from no matter how much weaker they are than him (except Yuji lmao)

[@zave_02]

he is constantly plotting since like episode 5

[@xvingar6318]

"Sukuna is a villain that is above villainy" is the best way to describe him. He really shows that against Jogo saying how desperate curses are to be evil. He calls Gojo greedy for wanting more than the stature he already has. He was never considered himself the strongest or born, he was just is because he finds satisfaction in killing with jujutsu. What he doesn't understand is that it doesn't fix his dissatisfaction as much as it seems, which is why he pauses after higoruma. He understands more sorcerers will come and most likely the same result will happen where he wins but that's just a dead end. So he thinks "am i wrong? I like to kill and not care right?". Then he proceeds to give himself a goal to destroy the ideals of yuji just for fun because he doesn't want to understand his true problem. His actions are meaningless but he doesn't want to accept it, this entire final fight with sorcerers is Sukuna gaslighting himself into thinking what he's doing is satisfying. Yuji will break it when he finally speaks to Sukuna through battle and his character will begin to show cracks. It's honestly amazing what gege did with him so far but people choose to ignore his progression. Sukuna is a wonderful anime/manga character.

[@varunyasa-j7z]

You really guessed the ending wow Sukuna gaslighted himself with hedonism being satisfying, ig revenge still drove him to hedonism and he took amusement out of it

[@nineninesixteensixteen9955]

it literally feels like the entire narrative actually caters to him.

[@JeetKunDrawYT]

like how the sorcerer's battle strategies always revolved around Gojo

[@letsreadtextbook1687]

Considering the first chapter is literally titled after him...

[@timbusbee1483]

That scene when when Yuji asked him for help and he completely refused made me realize this wasnt another Kurama and it was so refreshing. Ngl the dark beast inside trope has gotten too played out in anime.

[@سلمانقتل]

Yuji 🐐

[@ajizel13]

10:59 no but they really describe him that way.. "a force of nature" What really solidified how different he was from the typical tropes is when he absolutely refused to help yuji... normally that would've been the moment where Kurama or hollow rage transformation would've come out... but not only did sukuna refuse to help yuji..he straight up laughed at him for being too weak... We need a part 2 for sukuna

[@jon_ovo3653]

Definitely need part 2

[@TheEternalFlame57]

Oh shit a Sukuna vid didn’t expect this. Love the content

[@سلمانقتل]

❤️

[@IncandescentWriter]

Fine. I'll go watch the anime finally. Thank you.

[@yourlittleinsomniac5369]

This was what made me watch it too and I'm soooo glad I did

[@GothaBillsAndDeath]

Can't wait for anime-only watchers catch-up with the decades long raid boss battle in the manga. They are literally bringing in randoms now. The "Strongest Sorcerers Available" meme.

[@burningfiregames6015]

@CMDComMonDenominator You don't intend to deadass tell me that (spoilers) miguel wasn't random?

[@DarkEdge1231]

@@burningfiregames6015Miguel is Yuta’s Sensei and an ally. If Sukuna succeeds in the merger the entire planet is negatively affected. So he has an invested interest in helping out. He was hyped up by Gojo and the story in the past so it makes sense we might see him again to show off what he is capable of (since before his fight with Gojo was offscreened in the manga). If he is here then the rest of the Geto family might be involved. A random character would be Jiro Awasaka.

[@Бобёр-ю8г]

​@@DarkEdge1231Sukuna fans will look you in the eyes and genuinely say that the last 30 chapters mattered

[@DarkEdge1231]

@@Бобёр-ю8г I mean don’t they

[@Becvar80]

I'm waiting for this to throw out an homage to Devilman Crybaby and end with Sukuna winning

[@eldenlean5221]

Imo the best part about sukuna is how faithful his characterization is. He operates in a plain of egoism thats inatainable for humans. Making him both a demon and a god depending entirely on his whim.

[@ianhecox90]

Smth i find interesting is that in an interview gege said that one thing jkk tries to show is that there is no right or wrong, everyone just does what they believe in. And this really makes the choices that the characters make, especially sukuna, even more intriguing

[@karolchruzik1919]

1:30 OG Dr Jekyll didn't have split personality. Potion only changed his apperance and Mr. Hyde was his alter ego for getting wasted and killing people, something something allegory for indulging evil.

[@skookiecat_29]

You and The Closer Look are my favorite writing advice/analyzation KZbinrs, you deserve millions of subscribers, sorry I can’t do much cause I’m broke (._.)

[@سلمانقتل]

😭❤️

[@Rreinholdt]

(Anime spoilers for 2. season) Firstly thank you so much for these videos I really enjoy your perspective. I do disagree completely on the "no plan" point tho, since making that deal in season 1 I had a strong sense that sukuna was making moves and then in season 2 right before he gives the body back he literally tells that little ice sorcerer/monk/priest to focus on their preparations and that sounds like a plan to me ( last part of that sentence to be said while rubbing your hands together) Thank you again

[@سلمانقتل]

❤

[@Freshprince330]

Even worse, he does have the capacity for friendship or something like it which we see when he recognizes the ice user after killing jogo. But at the same time we see he is completely pitiless when it comes to most people. A narcissist who actually is the best is a potent character conceit.

[@jonathan0225]

i like that whenever a flashback hits you know every time somebody's gonna need an ambulance and it aint Sukuna.

[@dwilly8408]

Thank you for using the dub clip from FMAB, gotta be one of the best dubs ever

[@theduelist92]

The thing about Sukuna is, even just in what the Anime showed, he clearly has a plan revolving Megumi and an assistant in Uraume, but it's all just for his own amusement. Sukuna is the ultimate edonist, he only does what he pleases. He's able to think, strategize and be very smart but his ultimate goal is just his own enjoyment.

[@سلمانقتل]

Sukuna is philosopher and a poet

[@Mahoraga553]

the majority of the manga fandom should watch this video. They really need to understand this character lol

[@kwebvin9939]

The fans denying Sukuna's track record of soloing 3 groups of people in the Heian Era makes me cheer more for Sukuna ngl

[@lauraduarte712]

Great video, Savage! I appreciate your hard work ❤

[@سلمانقتل]

❤

[@donalddeluxe6407]

AWESOMENESS!!!!!! After the great savage books beat the great fraud fraudkuna, the victorious goat, savage books told him: “stand proud sukuna! You are strong!”

[@mannythegrandfather2291]

Pleaseeee don't spoil anything for this man please

[@zinv08]

It sounded pretty spoiler free to me.

[@princememphis7726]

Nothing was spoiled bro. You're good to watch

[@globurim]

​@@princememphis7726I think they're saying don't spoil the youtuber himself.

[@kmtgoddess7793]

its crazy how many incredible characters use slight variations on tropes someone said writing is less of an art and more of alchemy and im stsrting to believe that

[@roryrousseau111]

Really liked your gojo vid!, lost track of who did it so I'm glad this vid popped up on my feed

[@skookiecat_29]

Yay the Sukuna video is finally out! I love your videos dude ❤

[@سلمانقتل]

❤

[@PhantomHalf]

Nah you cannot make this video without reading the manga. Shit is going too wild rn

[@سلمانقتل]

😭😭😭☠️☠️

[@calebbridges4748]

Man nobody else does content like you do. This hits.

[@Darth_Bateman]

What annoys me the most about this state of affairs isn't Sukuna pulling W after W, it's how surprised everyone is after how this man has literally been hyped up for an ENTIRE series. And people are complaining that Sukuna is washing everyone. Nigga, are you missing the point? Everyone who isn't dead is about to die. . . . Like we are witnessing the Heian era in real time.

[@mew215]

Brilliant. Agree wholeheartedly

[@resumethyvideo7631]

That don’t make the cycle of character being introduced, doing moderate damage and then being taken out of the fight, any more interesting. If the fight was fully written it would be good but turning up week after week just to see another character who has no chance against Sukuna get curbstomped is fucking boring

[@HyperDrifter_EN]

@@resumethyvideo7631 jjk fans when the sorcerer hyped up to beat the greatest generation of Heian era sorcerers singlehandedly, is in fact capable of beating an entire generation of sorcerers singlehandedly

[@Darth_Bateman]

@@resumethyvideo7631 uhhh.... Each character being taken down is a countdown to disaster, you know that right?

[@eldenlean5221]

​@@resumethyvideo7631 speak for yourself. Watching them make their last stand has been incredible. From gojos entire fight, higurumas redemption, and the yuji and yuta team up inside the domain. Each moment has been some of the best in the series imo. And once itadori and megumi are inevitably the only ones alive or at least the only ones capable of fighting, we will see a culmination of everything thats veing set up in this arc.

[@unavezms8167]

I love villain who just doesn't care and is just bored. Loki is definitely one of those. He also loves giants. All his ideas generally end up with them being kicked in the butt but they still try. 😆

[@W.Gaster]

...Who was talking about loki?

[@Watermelon_Man]

“Wildly complex” is beyond hyperbolic. Sukuna really is just fascinated with high-level jujutsu, and anything less bores him. The only deviation from this is the disgust he feels when he feels he has been disrespected. That’s about it though.

[@itsjustvin7630]

Unless they can back it up. Gojo did

[@Six-bw3ir]

Jjk is the ultimate shonen than any other shonen it literally tells its story through the fights better than most.

[@imsoedgy902]

Because it's a fighting anime with a lack of world building.

[@Six-bw3ir]

@imsoedgy902 it has good world building. Unless you can prove to me that the world building somehow hindered the story told then I don't get your point. Everything that WAS NEEDED was told to the audience. Everything else is filler and unnecessary, YOU personally may have wanted to hear or see about random lore facts about a world that's practically identical to ours btw. But that isn't good storytelling, nor is it something that everyone cares about.

[@imsoedgy902]

@Six-bw3ir it's my opinion really.

[@Six-bw3ir]

@imsoedgy902 I know bro 👍

[@wywrd_mtnt]

I'm a big sukuna and gojo stan and seeing you talk about the exact reasons I like them has been very cool to watch, like i feel so good for identifying the same things about them that you did lol

[@JodyJoyce]

I like your content and what you have to say about character desing. Always interested me. One of my favorites is probably Funny Valentine, as he has a lot of themes going for him. One of the more subtly complex characters.

[@سلمانقتل]

Sukuna perfect modern day villain

[@albusdumpy]

Well when you put it like that…maybe Sukuna SHOULD win…..

[@chidorirasenganz]

As an anime-only who’s seen some manga spoilers I think Sukuna is like a mix of the nine-tailed fox and Orochimaru

[@spellbound1875]

Without getting to into spoilers, in terms of motivation and genius neither quite fits. The things those two want and the things Sukuna want are very different and consequently the way they view the world is quite different.

[@chidorirasenganz]

@@spellbound1875 I just meant the whole body sharing/stealing bit

[@strayorion2031]

Adding a little bit of the development the manga does: at some point in the history sukuna wonders why a person like yuuji, who in any other situation would be boring and one more ant to step on, annoys him so much, why does he, the one above ideals, have such a guttural reaction to yuuji's ideals, and he realizes that the one that changed was him; when he fought people with ideals like yuuji before, those ideals were alien and foreign to him, he never knew if those were the ideals for which they lived or just some words they said to give meaning to their death. They shared a body, and in that process yuuji leaned about sukuna and sukuna learned about yuuji, sukuna KNOWS the extend of yuuji's will, and seeing how that determination has taken yuuji (who sukuna considers to be a bore) so far annoys him.

[@emmanuelkayembe4226]

Hey, I enjoy how elaborate your analyses are. Any chance there will be a Frieren Beyond Journey's End video?

[@jon_ovo3653]

I need sukuna to win 100% I need it!!!!

[@سلمانقتل]

Do a video about mahito

[@suto5704]

Great video

[@dolo8811]

Great video! You should read the manga and provide reviews of the later arcs. Definitely interested in hearing your thoughts/theories!

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

I’m sure this video will have a totally normal comment section

[@savvy76]

Cant wait for a revisist to this subject once the anime catches up with the manga

[@tiltltt]

Another thing, in no point has coexistence with the demon ever been proposed in jjk. In Naruto even though the fox messed up his entire life from his birth, Naruto never ever wanted to get rid of it, even before we knew it could lead to his death, it was always coexistence and carefulness. For jjk no, Yuji is literally sentenced to death because they need to get rid off Sukuna, coexistence isn't an option. Unlike Naruto, no one wants to have a kid running around with an atomic bomb in his body.

[@سلمانقتل]

We need more

[@Good_life_is_what_i_want]

Also all of 3 designs of sukuna ryomen are badass and sexy

[@newbhackerthenewb9669]

You should make a video on the anime monster sometime. I would love to see a video of you analyzing Johan liebert's character and how to write a villan like him. And also analysis on grimmer, lunge and martin's character and the overall dark world that naoki urusawa tried to make

[@HBpenman]

Sukuna has to be my favorite villain in all of anime.

[@DarkAuraLord]

Eh... He's only interesting when he's still a mystery, if you ask me. The initial appeal of him is that question of how something like him even exists, what he wants, his goals, etc. Unfortunately, when Gege actually gets around to answering that, there was no possible way it could be more interesting than the question itself. It would be like if Togashi gave us an elaborate flashback that detailed all of the parts of Hisoka's backstory we don't know. The fun of characters like these are the questions, not the answers. The enjoyment comes from engaging with that question, theorizing and coming up with ideas - projection and interpretation. Those blanks are left blank for the audience. At the point the manga is at currently, Sukuna feels very bland, and I think that's why Gege is trying to do this very odd, last minute characterization of Sukuna in a series that is clearly meant to be ending sometime soon. He went from being one of my favorite characters to one that I just find boring at this point. Maybe I'll be surprised by the ending or Gege has some ingenious twist I won't see coming, but I'm honestly really bored and it feels like I'm just waiting for *somebody* to finally finish this fight after like 8 fucking people have jobbed to this guy.

[@itsjustvin7630]

But then how would the merger happened

[@kemsat-n6h]

Tsukuna is Goku without his grandfather.

[@piwright42]

"...gains power as he loses fingers." He's a dragon. Japanese people consider the Chinese dragon to be weaker as it has five fingers instead of three.

[@plaecholder]

Spoilers for anime onlies... . . . . . . . . . Later on in gets even better when it's revealed that Sukuna genuinely views himself just so far above everyone else that their attempts to stop him are viewed by him as his subjects trying to worship him. And not to mention the theories on how he's helping people reach enlightenment.

[@icbtv8207]

best villain ever

[@سلمانقتل]

🐐🔥

[@babyblue1443]

Seriously bro? .... He's not even the best villain of his own series , mahito is

[@someguy4405]

The reason there are so many inner beasts and rage transformations in shounen is because puberty is when boys start to become aware of their anger and capacity for violence, and also how important it is to suppress. Shounen is fundamentally all about the power fantasy, so things like Kurama let the young male readership in a largely repressive Japanese society fantasise about letting all their bottled anger out, and how no one could stop them if they did. Sukuna is different, because he emphasises disempowerment instead of empowerment. He stains his vessels with the crimes he commits through them, and makes them feel overwhelming guilt for things we know they aren't really responsible for. When you get angry, it sometimes does feel like someone else is in control, and afterwards you wish it was, because you can't imagine yourself doing and saying the things you know you did. Sukuna isn't just an independent person, it's like he's all the worst things about people. He's totally motivated by base impulses and other people's lives basically don't exist to him. He's the logical end-point of the behaviour we've all regrettably engaged in at some point.

[@joaoalves9330]

Tbh it seems to me you don’t quite understand Sukuna. He doesn’t just like suffering as you said he’s more complex than that. You should probably read the manga if you don’t want to wait 5 years for jjk season 4 you’ll see more of his philosophy and world view on it.

[@xavierthomas5835]

Even if he does just read the manga, like you said, everything he says and does only informs the fact that he enjoys the suffering of others and death. I'm not sure you actually understand his character. What part of him have you seen that would make you think he doesn't JUST enjoy the suffering of others?

[@joaoalves9330]

@@xavierthomas5835 Manga spoilers He doesn't enjoy mindless suffering per say. Like if he sees a random person suffering on the side of the road he won't enjoy it. What he loves is battle and seeing strong opponents giving it their all. He loves that struggle and that clash of wills. He is kinda like Madara or Goku they're all characters who love fighting. He loves seeing his opponents giving it their all so much so that he felt remorse for killing higuruma because he never got see his full power. He also forms bonds with the people he fights and is kind to them in the afterlife as seen with Jogo and Kashimo. He saw the fights he fought in the heian era as a form of kindness too because he knew how much those warriors had trained and how how much those fights mattered to them. He knew that to those warriors even being acknowledged by Sukuna as a worthy opponent was a greater honor than any of them could hope to have. He is an awful person morally but he isn't a mindless murder machine. He explains all this pretty well in chapter 238 I believe.

[@jpcorinthians2009]

I believe that, even better than Kurama, Boruto's Momoshiki is one of the best examples. He's sooo related to Sukuna in some sense. Personality, the karma progression, all that. And since we got to know how strong he was from the beginning, we know to fear him as his return is foreshadowed. And his prophecies that "His blue eyes will make him lose everything" and now Boruto really losing everything, is truly goat writing.

[@mekb2325]

While this is a great video and I do agree with most of what you said. Not spoiling anyone with details, these things don’t apply to Sukuna anymore & ruins the character in some aspects :(

[@itsjustvin7630]

Nah still does up to ch255. Got Higgy up high in his potential just to cut it short when he declares him mid

[@TheAdventuretrainerRuby]

You deserve my subscribe 🤩 Keep it up!

[@jaieregilmore971]

Sukuna is a true demon just wants to make there host suffer like green goblin in spider man.

[@سلمانقتل]

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[@psypsy751]

Sukuna is pretty much exactly Kurama fused with Madara.

[@سلمانقتل]

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[@Nerdasaurus13]

I think you brushed up against a really interesting aspect of his character when pointing out that, unlike most other soul-linked characters, when he takes control he isn't a mindless creature of pure rage, but very much himself. We get much more development of him as a character like you mentioned, but we also get a really interesting commentary on the character archetype with this contrast. Most soul-linked characters serve as a kind of metaphor for "the animal within", when we are pushed to our absolute breaking point we give in to our basest desires and go feral, lashing out at anything and everything around us. This usually serves to reinforce the idea that civilization and living in harmony with one another is what separates us from the animals, creatures of pure instinct who cannot be reasoned with. The typical trajectory this follows is that the character learns to tame the animal and live in harmony with it, like Naruto and Kurama, as over several seasons the soul-linked character becomes more humanized and develops agency. The difference with Sukuna is that (ironically) he is very human from the start, he is in complete control of himself which paints a very different picture. Whereas other soul-linked characters are used to depict us giving into our basest desires as something very animalistic and foreign, Sukuna is uncomfortably familiar. He's not a wild animal, he's just an incredibly sadistic and selfish person. He theoretically could be reasoned with, but he simply has no interest in anything anyone else has to offer him. This inversion of the trope not only makes him a much more interesting character, I think it provides a much more nuanced depiction of humanity's basest desires. They're not something we only give in to as the result of feeling like a cornered animal, but far too often something people indulge for personal pleasure because they feel above everyone else.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Part of what adds to the charisma/ godlike feel Sukuna has is as you say the only fight we see him lose/ seem to struggle with is against Gojo, but notably that's right at the start when he's only at 1 finger. The next time we see him fight is the special grade finger bearer which had completely outmatched Yuji and Megumi to a point of forcing Yuji to recognise the scale of the Jujutsu world and where he currently stands in it. At this point Yuji's eaten 2 fingers, so I guess it shouldn't be super surprising given that it's a 1 finger level curse vs a 2 finger level Sukuna, but he eclipse it to the point it's a complete role reversal and mocks it and the sorcerer's system by remarking about how they're both considered "special grade" despite the clear power disparity, and the cruse goes from being outright terrified of him to actively trying to seek his approval. He has a "Jogo moment" of being matched up against the strongest guy in the story at the time when he's at his weakest, which sows the question of "does this still go down the same if Sukuna were at full power?".

[@nabinoorshahil2715]

There are 2 more differences between Sukuna and other body sharing villains. Firstly, every time he shows up he does not just fight other villains he also either attacks and toys with our heroes or kills civilians. After killing the finger curse he immediately went to attack Megumi and when he was fighting Jogo he played with Panda and Kushakabe putting their lives in danger. Then his fight with Mahoraga he wiped out all of Shibuya killing thousands and enjoying in the deaths he caused. Other body sharing villains may be dangerous and they may hurt a character we like but rarely if ever do they actually start killing people but Sukuna is an exception. Secondly, the other major difference is that he can't be relied on when the mc is loosing. Against the finger bearer he straight up says that he will kill Megumi and play with Nobara if he is released. He was also fine with Yuji dying. Then in season 2 when Yuji lost and was about to die against Choso he was going to let Yuji die. Under body sharing character typically don't want their host to die but Sukuna is fine with it as he has other fingers and will not die.

[@Good_life_is_what_i_want]

I like sukuna as villain..he and yuji is my fav jujutsu kaisen characters now...

[@سلمانقتل]

Do a video about Yuji

[@adrianvulpes9509]

12:23 I understood that reference!

[@famenation8133]

So in essense sukuna is the nine tails if it was an active villain rather than a passive one

[@سلمانقتل]

Good video 👍 Sukuna is evil buddha

[@georgecook83]

Being someone who isn’t into anime makes your channel confusing sometimes lol. But you do a good job of clearing it up.

[@ashrafmurad80]

Interested in your thoughts of Shishio Makoto as a villian from Kenshin anime

[@JeetKunDrawYT]

Akuma and his satsui no hado is another dynamic that stands out to me in a different way the same can be said about Evil Ryu but Ryu loses himself by instinct or rage to becoem Evil Ryu while Gouki threw himself away by choice to become Akuma shameless plug: I waffle about this in detail on my channel🗿

[@nineninesixteensixteen9955]

the dishonored one

[@dertanlee6510]

Sukuna doesn t seem to have plan as anime only.....sure that must be the case

[@brennanb4911]

I feel like Garou from OPM. I won't complain if Sukuna becomes the MC and clears the board by the end of the series. He don't want the smoke he is the smoke. Ijs🤷

[@PraveenS-jb6zi]

Hello man, I love your analysis and perception of the characters. And also just to let you know, I think it would be nice if you are present in the brightest side of the video. Because I try to listen to you but the light from the window and computer is super distracting. Like my eyeballs tend to roll over to those often, making it difficult to focus.

[@soccerandtrack10]

9:31 i forget the word d.i.d. people say when 2 alters fuse...

[@sentinelshoshin4632]

fyi: host a youtube poll about the last time people have checked their subscribed feed. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people have the same answer as me: a long time ago.

[@soccerandtrack10]

7:05 did other people notice he says "our heros.",when he ment villians,or did he mean when hes actuelly fighting them?...

[@JBMVoid]

momoshiki and sukuna is favorite villian. sukuna is definitely related to yuji... they look alike

[@moxx2298]

I just realised sukuna had 20 fingers because he has 4 hands

[@سلمانقتل]

😐😐😐💀💀💀

[@سلمانقتل]

Could you do a video about magic system in jujitsu kaizen

[@Eniggma39]

Sukuna is battle hungry and anthropophagous

[@سلمانقتل]

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[@excaliburturkey8208]

KZbin algorithm maybe screwing with your videos due to you starting to stream, the dichotomy between the quite long stream times if they're kept on your channel versus your normal video screws how they recommend things I think, some other KZbinrs (maybe it was DanTDM?) talking about it awhile ago it might be worth looking into?

[@سلمانقتل]

Brother you need to read the manga

[@neetfreek9921]

If you want to see the inbetween of the naruto type and sukuna type of second soul. It's gotta be Rize and Kaneki from tokyo ghoul.

[@Rupert3434]

Who are you quoting in those block quotes? Can you share the source?

[@micsulli19]

Do an hour long video about Fairy Tail?! **fingers crossed**

[@upg5147]

You set this up to easily for me to ignore... He said he talks about GOOD writing.

[@سلمانقتل]

👍🔥🔥

[@iAmPimmiCue]

So why did he make a video on JJK?@@upg5147