You Don't Understand Ryomen Sukuna

[@TWE_2000]

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.

[@Modhuchosha]

Kenpachi mogs sukuna into the ground. Escanor makes sukuna cry just by standing next to him.

[@judicialexpansion8724]

​@@Modhuchosha 🥱🥱🥱

[@shaunooi2551]

While he isn’t false, can someone ask the first comment to shut it?​@@judicialexpansion8724

[@dadielperez125]

Sometimes it is too hard to think about this. Sometimes I think I can understand halfway

[@ChZenOnE]

Sukuna glaze is not a bug but a feature

[@dompredator77]

That's right!

[@CertainlyCynical]

Sukuna always makes pro gamer moves

[@narrativeless404]

Except the feature is an exploit devs are too lazy to fix and decided to just call it a feature instead Or the feature is plain EVIL like Windows built in DRM and tracking or Minecraft Marketplace

[@Uwhwvwgwh]

​​@@narrativeless404 no you just didn't read .

[@narrativeless404]

@@Uwhwvwgwh Why do i need to? I hate reading I think KZbin is enough to get familiar with the lore And yeah, Sukuna is a fraud

[@log5531]

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.

[@flappyflap2693]

mf that's just his name wtf r u talking about his brother literally had ryomen mentioned in his last name too...

[@HeirofDacia]

*Couldn't care less. Why the fuck are people on the internet unable to ever use the english language correctly?

[@Kleide_]

​@@HeirofDaciaEverybody, let's point and laugh at the grammar Nazi. 🫸🔴🔵🫷 🫴🟣

[@Blaynkk]

@@HeirofDacia damn bro u need to smoke some weed

[@HeirofDacia]

@@Kleide_ It matters not if illiterate cavemen laugh.

[@phunnyfillip]

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.

[@R7dman]

Loved this!

[@DKing-du6xr]

Just about the last part. I believe sukuna’s potential defeat will be anything but predictable. Heck, he might even win. I don’t think gege will do something as simple as having sukuna losing an ideological battle which would translate into his physical defeat as well, in the shonen spirit. That would be way corny for this character. Rather, I predict a crazy character development that will have sukuna retreat or die in his own accord. And of course it will have to come through yuuji somehow.

[@KAMPbtx]

Actually all for one is different as he loved his brother more than anything

[@phunnyfillip]

Future Phil here! So it turns out I was kinda right, but in possibly the worst way this could’ve all gone down

[@j.s.ospina9861]

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.

[@letsreadtextbook1687]

I love this interpretation. It's not the "coping for despair" kinda nihilsm, but like, nihilism as in the force of nature.

[@acetofresh1]

Sukuna is absolutely a hedonist and a nihilist, he believes in meaning through strength, and also understanding others through jujutsu. He explicitly explains that he does everything for pleasure and the narrator tells us only his whims exist. He parallels strongly with Mahito, who was much more of a destructive nihilist. Sukuna even changes to more of that fashion in Shinjuku Showdown where he mentions finally having a role, and that being to crush Yuji’s beliefs entirely.

[@greenmatrix5303]

@@acetofresh1 he's not a hedonist

[@thomasdeen2099]

Sorcery Fights? Like literal Jujutsu Kaisen?! 🤯

[@j.s.ospina9861]

@@thomasdeen2099 "It was me all along, Yuji. I was the Jujutsu Kaisen" -Fraudkuna, 264

[@RestlessGamblrr]

32 minutes… i am seated

[@Toastedbuns-hq9fb]

Woah your real didnt expect to see you here

[@jj-ww5wn]

Sup dude, good to see you here

[@Saint.Topman]

Sukuna negs your goat Gojo keep coping you addict

[@makima_the_control_devil]

Same

[@Nick-bv1yc]

@@Saint.Topman I agree with you but *nobody* mentioned Gojo. Stop pushing an agenda

[@Koshbiel]

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".

[@VET.INSTINCT]

Exactly well understood Only thing id correct you on is the hedonistic take, like sure it is? But is it really hedonistic or does it look that way towards US humans with human morals only? You get me ? It's like calling a look hedonistic, when it's just programmed that way, ways child animals, lions and females. We don't label it, we just call it the natural food chain I also see humans thinking sukuna is hedonistic The same way humans thinking time is real or we have the EXACT definition When it's only what we perceive it to be from our brains wired a certain way A alien will laugh at our concept of time and measurements, on how wrong and offscale it is Sukuna is just as incomprehensible to humans, as REAL time is to humans We can't even process what black holes are full, yey alone understand it's time dilations and warps

[@VET.INSTINCT]

You deff understand what gege is conveying tho, and I respect that and applaud you It's so refreshing with all the children consuming this, with there narratives, headcannons, and perspectives on what makes a villian a 'fraud" or not

[@andreasballe7470]

@@VET.INSTINCT I feel that JJK attracted the worst kind of people to its community which is those powerscalers from Dragon Ball and JoJo. I'm not saying that Dragon Ball or JoJo are bad, they are good mangas / animes with good story no doubt about it, but their fandoms are insanely stupid because they can only truly powerscale and it has led to this powerscaling mindset in the Jujutsu Kaisen community, where either a character is "the strongest" or they're a fraud, and there can only be one. And I think that leads to them only reading the story to hype up their favorite character, i.e people looking at Maki being compared to Toji by Gege, and then running with it to say Toji could fight 20f Sukuna because Maki did.

[@VET.INSTINCT]

@@andreasballe7470 😂😂😂 like straight Ludacris 😂 I feel you Mind you (gege mentioning maki surpassing toji ATP in the manga) way younger also (with clear statements from gege himself, the actual narrator and creator And there adding there headcannon and "this character = this similar character... DUH ? yOu dIdN't KnOw ?!" It also has to do with them liking and following characters, powerscaling, and hype trains more than narratives, and story telling The hype is part of the weekly manga reader experience that they can't ever just serperate... Stop.... Sit back.... And read at their OWN pace, then and only then without doing any of this.. does it become "very repetitive" "sukuna cycle" . When in REALITY there not taking breaks... Spamming it with HIGH expectations, just to get subverted next chapters They would hate reading Frieza back in the day I bet money if they actually took a break, got off KZbin, Instagram, and TikTok reels, stayed away from others opinions that either strengthens there delusions, or give new ones They would actually like the story They also looked at gojo like this weapon, that gege keeps demonstrating with main cast, and never really liked his character foreal, just "colorful, blue red purple!" "Shiny man, so handsome, ALL THE TIME" Goofiness 😂

[@KaizenDomain]

@@VET.INSTINCTSukuna himself admits readily to his hedonistic desires and seems quite intertwined with human culture to agree with the definition

[@mischief5149]

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

[@kalpeshbhoir7372]

that all just sounds like sukuna is a pos that hasn't gotten what he deserves

[@kaliyuga14surfer88]

​@@kalpeshbhoir7372 thats the entire point, he will never get what he deserves because he is the strongest and will keep it that way to stay entertained till he passes.

[@Bagekeas]

⁠@@kalpeshbhoir7372that’s his character though and why he’s so good

[@kalpeshbhoir7372]

@@Bagekeas yeah, he's pretty cool that way

[@kalpeshbhoir7372]

@@kaliyuga14surfer88 he's the strongest because of sorcery, with that gone he'd become nothing but still cool

[@sorrowbladeontop]

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.

[@cinderpelt67]

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.

[@MrAnimason]

Glad someone else caught that out.

[@Darth_Bateman]

A "Barrier" cannot be "Open". Otherwise, it isn't a Barrier.

[@mock15halo]

@@Darth_Bateman a fence is a barrier but you can always go over/under it. Just a tangent point

[@LeatherNinja]

​@@Darth_Batemanthe "barrier" is just the point of entrance into the area known as "domain". There is normally a barrier between reality and domain but Sukunas isn't closed off to reality.

[@gbemade]

@@Darth_Batemanthats literally the point you cannot comprehend it

[@jinxamp9963]

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

[@willofm]

Fight Club Vibes

[@JimedBro]

Fr, not once have I actually seen Sukuna refer to himself as "Sukuna"

[@Subpar1O1]

I can't remember the chapter number but whenever he and Uraume are talking about his twin, he refers to himself "Ryomen Sukuna" in the third person, as if it's a title he earned, or was rather was forced upon him and not established at birth. He says something like "it seems Sukuna's strength is too much for them..." or something of that measure, like it's an alter ego and not his identity

[@sweetandsour9312]

Maybe he lost a sense of self when he consumed his brother and then megumi he probably has their memories and maybe thoughts mixed in with his own? Idk but I never truly saw that either good catch!

[@colt9836]

​@@Subpar1O1 Well, everyone in-vese calls him "Sukuna," and he responds to it. So it has to be his name, or the name he cares enough to be called by.

[@reaperiwk7555]

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

[@rustyrobotbeak01]

Nah he’s a fraud, he constantly makes fun of Yuji with his opponents like Mahito and Choso. So when they are actually dangerous he becomes extremely petty in order to kill them such as when he used Malevolent Shrine + Divine Flame against just Yuji. The only reason he’s even alive right now is because he uses Megumi as a shield, otherwise Yuji and everyone else would have attacked him at once instead of following on their plans to save Megumi and taking casualties.

[@devdadude9274]

@@rustyrobotbeak01so he is a fraud for using everything at his disposal?

[@hk_asa0pvp]

@@rustyrobotbeak01 gojo would be the fraud , born as the strongest even with the most complex techniques he's given by fate/destiny he still got cooked by a dude whose ct is cutting shit up

[@xebec995]

​@@rustyrobotbeak01cry more 😂

[@rustyrobotbeak01]

@@hk_asa0pvp Gojo got nerfed by Megumi, if it wasn’t for him there would be nothing stopping Gojo from grabbing Sukuna with Maximum Blue and combining it with Red for Hollow Purple and obliterating him. The only thing good about Shrine is the open barrier pre-order that Sukuna and Kenjaku got, without ridiculous CE it’s practically useless against anyone who has more CE than you as Yuta and Yuji have shown by tanking regular dismantles.

[@himanshurohewal1623]

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.

[@MrWescottX]

Yup

[@Deathmare235]

He’s basically an evil Goku he’s like Goku black before Zamasu

[@nikjovan4816]

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.

[@LOMZI-10]

More JJK fans need to watch these vids, it's always so refreshing to hear takes and analyses like these that reinvigorate my love for this series.

[@SavageEntertainmentYEAH]

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.

[@mategido]

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

[@bbstuffz6257]

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.

[@yureimenkishi4291]

Same guy talking about how women and children were maggots he could kill the glazing went too far at the end but everything else good

[@inverteadSpear13]

@@yureimenkishi4291facts he’s definitely a cold blooded killer😂

[@artemisfowl1862]

@@yureimenkishi4291Moreso to eat and consume for, again, his pleasure. Mahito would absolutely go on a killing spree until people tried stopping him just for the fun of it, but Sukuna would just live as he did in the heian era, but with new people to consume, which is why he was excited upon his incarnation. Eat, kill whoever is in his way, be worshipped. Chill out. The perfect existence for a true, complete, hedonist.

[@amosrotimi1]

I think he’d target very powerful sorcery for fun but yeah he’d leave most other people alone

[@TheZombiekiller900]

Are we forgetting the first thing he said when he woke up in the modern era? "Where are the women and children?! So many maggots crawling around...it'll be a massacre!!" Bro was here to kill from the first new breath.

[@1hundred1]

the goat and it's not close man

[@Saint.Topman]

You my goat ❤ Make a Sukuna all forms vs Gojo if you can please

[@Nick-bv1yc]

Facts🗿

[@Pbcvl]

fraud 🔥

[@Nick-bv1yc]

@@Pbcvl Cringe ahh mf (I'm talking about u bty)

[@CaptainBudak]

facts

[@Atticus-Catnipp]

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

[@chromtastic2092]

It’s a little funny since most shonen villains have this grand dream or goal they want for the end yet sukuna has basically achieved it and is living it

[@Rdc_Dom]

I'd go even further and say he's definitively a perfect villain

[@SumRandomGuy1]

Nah looking at comments like these makes me think this video better explain why he’s a goat character let alone villian lol he lacks everything that makes a good character, backstory, character development, his own body, motive Etc. hell I d even go as far to call him lore man with no lore😂 but I’ll see after watching this 32 minute video

[@sailorsavvy9690]

​@@SumRandomGuy1 you definitely don't need a backstory or your own body to have a good chatacter

[@VET.INSTINCT]

​@@SumRandomGuy1 Look at aizen, damn near ZERO backstory and still a goated villian you can feel and understand And gives villian vibes that break off from troupes Try getting into more stories that's not so Madara villian like, and always needing a backstory and grandiose reason nobel for everything Im also getting that you like more so anti heros, and morally grey villains than actual villains We don't need any more madaras, We need more aizens, who are both extremely intelligent and actually give off villian vibes. We need more breaking from human mindsets and powersets like aizen also (tho Kubo did retconned it a bit with him being lonely and wanting a rival, and change (where it starts merging with Madara type villains) videos is 100% for people like you, hope you did watch it and learn something

[@mehmet-erol]

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.

[@yesno9475]

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.

[@MpanzuELWik]

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.

[@mrperfumer2695]

Nice

[@analyticsystem4094]

Sukuna carries himself like a God of Jujutsu, using every facet of Jujutsu at its peak and to strengthen himself. He uses binding vows to strengthen and add versatility to his own techniques. His Selfish Nihilism perfectly fits jujutsu, his focus is on strength and jujutsu is the path to unstoppable strength

[@MarianaBello-fq3hx]

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.

[@stunnagirl8465]

Alright gege we know its you

[@gwyneth339]

"Sukuna isn't an abstract diety anymore. He has been pulled from the heavens by Yuji." You cooked here

[@SemekiIzuio]

The video: Why Sukuna is HIM

[@jon_ovo3653]

Facts

[@channeleroni]

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

[@IamWhoIam-z6i]

Stand Proud You Cooked

[@log5531]

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

[@erwinwaterman9699]

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.

[@gabrielasilva9236-p5v]

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.

[@fuchsi5039]

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.

[@ryutak777]

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

[@themarshian5124]

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.

[@TheGospelGuy]

He's not jumping into battle. THEY'RE JUMPING HIM!! He never asked to fight the entire cast, he was only eager to fight Gojo. Once that was over, I'm sure he would've just flown back home to chill. I bet he was tired and gonna take a nap. But they wouldn't let him. You call him a psychopath, but truly he isn't. He himself says he understands how others feel, and he even knows what love is. He just doesn't care or see the value in it. That's apathy. Not psychopathy. A psychopath is someone who is mentally unable to feel emotions of any sort. It's because of this that they kill so easily. It's not because they're evil, it's that they just want to feel ANYTHING at all. Maybe happiness, sadness, pleasure, anger, joy, relief, grief, or guilt. Psychopaths don't feel emotions, and have an extremely hard time understanding how others feel. They struggle with empathy and sympathy, and it's not their fault in any way. In addition, Sukuna is apathetic BY CHOICE. He views strength as the only thing that matters, and chooses to not give a damn about anything else. Also, the fact that Sukuna CAN FEEL pleasure, cements the fact that he isn't a psychopath. Considering he CAN feel anything at all.

[@ivmonday]

@@TheGospelGuy It’s a common misconception that ‘psychopaths’ feel no emotion. They do experience emotions, albeit often to a lesser degree and with a different quality than what is considered typical. Sukuna is definitely a psychopath. From episode 1 ; entering yujis body he was elated to be free, with intentions of committing what he said was a massacre. Let’s stop getting so ironically emotionally involved in characters that we defend psychopathic behavior.

[@TheGospelGuy]

@@ivmonday I'm not defending psychopathic behavior, I'm defending the truth. And truth is that Sukuna ain't no psychopath. And the fact of you telling me to not be "emotionally involved" when you just wrote a paragraph about the same thing is quite ironic. But I'm not emotionally involved. I'm not interested in Sukuna himself, but the way he thinks. Why he does the things he does. I enjoy analyzing characters, so I can understand well-written characters in order to write my own.

[@ivmonday]

@@TheGospelGuy Yea, I don't think you know what ironic means nor psychopathic but it's cool that you write. I'd love to read something when you're done cooking.

[@TheGospelGuy]

@@ivmonday Agree to disagree. It's unfortunate we couldn't come to an understanding. Maybe sometime in the future, you'll see one of my works. But until then, I'm going to keep analyzing well-written characters.

[@chrisjulien7698]

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

[@IsThatAThaiName]

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

[@fujoshi8890]

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

[@huliobulio]

i am not moving an inch while watching this

[@s1rskiii_]

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

[@SentinalSlice]

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

[@renatobregu]

One of the best videos hands down

[@axelsxnumba1fan]

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

[@Lorendrawn]

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.

[@WellUnknownAbyss]

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

[@CrookedCreatureTV]

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.

[@ImchautzuCHAUTZU]

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

[@CertainlyCynical]

W

[@somersaultinggiraffe1901]

​@Thompsons547mad cus your blue eyed clown is nothing what he claims to be

[@jon_ovo3653]

Preach 😌

[@kunalisdead]

Ryomen sukuna is without any doubt the center of the jujutsu kaisen story. He has been shown time after time, as the GOD. His behavior, his principles regardless of evil or good, are divine. He possesses every divine attribute there is, which are dedication, power, mind, enlightenment, persistence, and a never ending hunger for excellence. He has been on earth for 1000s of years. Yet, he never proclaimed himself as the strongest neither did he go into a dilemma of being the strongest. Even after being an omnipotent deity, he still strives for the excellence which directly opposes satori gojo. Gojo on the other hand, is illiterate and has all gifts by birth. He behaves like a fool, who is too full of him and someone who doesn't know ehat it's like to lose. He didn't even have the most basic discipline. Which brings me to an instance with jogo. When sukuna killed jogo, he said " be proud of yourself, you are strong ". But when gojo defeated jogo, he said " you are weak ". Here, we see two parallels where, one who is actually the strongest, appreciates the enemy, respects the strength of someone other than him. And on the other side, we have an immature boy calling others weak. The story constantly tries to tell us that sukuna is something more than we see, something we cannot comprehend. Even the first page of the manga, and the kast page of the manga, they both end with Sukuna. Gojo's death being treated as just any other death throughout the series is in itself a proof that satori gojo was insignificant. When sukuna perishes, note : he doesn't die . When he perishes, the manga ends, even in the kast page you can see sukuna's finger. Even gege himself showed sukuna as the sole centerpiece of manga, because without any doubt this is Sukuna Kaisen.

[@kuma1062]

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

[@yofukashino_]

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

[@sketchiefello9002]

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

[@jon_ovo3653]

Me and you both 🤝

[@sailorsavvy9690]

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

[@robinvmars6191]

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.

[@teo2216]

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…

[@TheBroligarch]

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

[@jonomano3992]

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.

[@wesley3447]

Sorry for all the words yall. I cannot keep this bottled up anymore. I will go insane. He isnt inconvievable. The reason he is difficult to relate to is because we have literally like 0.002% of the information about him. We see actions and hear words come from his mouth and are expected to take those actions and words at face value. I do not. I see sukuna as thus: 1.) mother starved herself with twins, reason unknown, there was a tradition where the mother would starve herself to make the baby(ies) strong. He ate/absorbed the twin to survive or they both would be dead. 2.) was born "a cursed, unwanted, little wretch." Presumably because she was expecting two and got one freaky lookong one. 3.) was probably hunted at one point for looking different than other people. Tell me if you think people would just let a 4 armed, 4 eyed, 2 mouthed person live in peace. People are cruel to those that are different, always have been always will be imho. 4.) decided at some point he wanted all of the smoke, again because he was seen as a monster by society and most likely treated as one his whole life. 5.) the clans kept sending their armies after him then made the claim he is a demon, calamity because they couldnt win on offense so they made the claim he is evil to justify them bothering someone. 6.) he never lost and got bored. 7.) made a deal with kenjaku, which we still dont know the conditions of. 8.) woke up and learned people still want his fade and eliminate him for existing, natural or not, they did so when he was "natural" why should he respect it when he is "unnatural" he was always seen as the ladder. 9.) the rest we have seen but i will say there have been 3 moment where sukuna seems genuinely sad. Ill leave the finding of them to you dear reader. 😬 I believe Sukuna to be Frankensteins monster of sorts. A monster of the world around hims creation. He has never been shown true love, adopted his own idea of love, practices it, and thinks it is still worthless. People seem to just disregard sukunas statements because he is "evil". People are not by default "evil" they are also not by default "good". Our experiences and the consistency of which those experiences are negative or positive can and will mold and cement how an indavidual acts. This is simple psychology. We have power over our actions, sure, but what if you were attacked over and over again for just existing and you had the power and capability to fight back against anyone that tried? Would you just let them beat you to death? Would you let them live? What if he has before and they came back with friends? Wouldnt you stop letting people go? I think people over-simplify sukuna and he isnt even super complicated. Buzzwords like "hedonist" and this that and the third thing said about the guy doesnt tell us WHY he is a hedonist or "evil". And i know some braindead indavidual gonna hit the "i aint reading all dat" or that sukuna is just evil off rip for eating the brother in the womb. Thats literally a normal phemomenon when twins are not getting enough nutrients and his mom starved herself with twins. Do the math. 2+2=4 to me.

[@nobodynowhere4959]

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

[@Yggdraseed]

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!

[@bigPPprincess]

I never considered Sukuna and Kenjaku as contradictory to the major themes you bring up. It's an interesting viewpoint, but I don't think I agree. Sukuna and Kenjakus individualism isn't in opposition with the communalism you're referring to, nor is it in opposition with the criticism of conservatism. Both of them are still bound/working within the bounds of Jujutsu; they still represent the oppressor. Just in a different form. Parallels like the hierarchical clan system, the school system, Jujutsushi, are way more 1:1 with the real world, while Sukuna and Kenjaku represent a more primal, unique, conflict (if that makes sense) and I don't think absence of the former leads to the latter. I may be misinterpreting what you're saying but I don't think it's a binary, nor do i think the goal is a middle ground between the two. Your last question in that third paragraph is much closer to what the idea is, I feel, and in a twisted, evil sense might be what something like the Merger could represent.

[@VET.INSTINCT]

@@bigPPprincess good explanation

[@Yggdraseed]

@@bigPPprincess Personally, I don't see it as a binary choice, either. I think that part of our needs as people are met when we give to others. There's a part of ourselves that isn't complete until we make a personal sacrifice for someone or something besides ourselves, whether it's as huge as giving your life or as small as giving some of your time. I think that the Takaba fight shows the side of it where checking your ego for the sake of your craft is validating, is part of what a person's needs are. And I think you can see it with Choso as well, where Yuki saved him from giving up his life for the mission, but in Shinjuku he gives up his life for his brother. These are two different kinds of sacrifices, and the story clearly puts the latter above the former. So yeah, I think that part of becoming whole is giving of your time, energy, and just the material of life for the needs of people and things outside of yourself. That even if you don't receive time, energy, and material in return, you still receive something. I believe that the conclusion GeGe is pointing towards is that Sukuna gained a lot by throwing away his humanity, but he may have lost something unspeakably precious, too. Like Sukuna reminds me a lot of the characters in Chainsaw Man. Cruelty within suffering giving rise to broken people who are trying to claw their way from a state of struggling to meet their most basic, physical needs to something more precious and human. But Sukuna was so blessed with strength that he was able to brute force a way around the kind of very, very harsh development someone like Denji went through. He's broken free from the whole cycle of give-and-give-back that's part of being human, and I don't think that it's entirely to his benefit. That's what I think the "big idea" is going to be, or part of it at least.

[@bigPPprincess]

@@Yggdraseed Yep, being trapped in Yuji and being forced to experience another person wholeheartedly is cracking his exterior. Something I find interesting is while Yuji is punching away at him to try and get to Megumi I wonder how much more of Sukuna himself he'll reveal. Another funny thing is if you take Kenjaku as an individualist (which I don't exactly, it's just that he doesn't have anyone other than Takaba that could crack his shell), his final life's goal being a literal merger of souls akin to how Sukuna and Yuji were trapped together is very ironic.

[@Yggdraseed]

@@bigPPprincess Personally, I have some crackpot theories about Kenjaku lurking in the back of my mind still. The fact that Kenjaku takes their name after a depiction of Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion and the goddess of mercy, as well as how gentle and kind they were to Yuji's former classmate while escorting her out of the Sendai Colony, makes me think that there's another side to Kenjaku. One that sees all of this as a necessary evil and a form of "tough love" to force people to fight for their lives, in order to make them realize how strong people can be and how precious life is. Although I also think that part of this may just be vestiges of Kaori's personality, the same as how parts of Geto's personality have seemingly become permanently integrated with Kenjaku. Which in itself is also ironic - how the person who preaches Social Darwinism and individualism has become such a composite personality that it's unclear how much of the original is left. I'm not sure if we're meant to look at this as a sign that there are still aspects of Kenjaku we don't understand yet, or if it's meant to highlight an inherent hypocrisy in Kenjaku's professed beliefs about humanity. Maybe time will tell.

[@Caernunnos]

To be fair: Sukuna is very simple. "Might makes right" is a perfect way to sum up his character. As long as he is the strongest, he can do ans live as he wishes. The moment he lost, he says "I'd like to walk another path" which he justifies to Mahito by saying "I lost after all". His way of life was right because he was the strongest. But because he was beaten, it means it wasn't right after all.

[@Rishabh149]

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

[@NubsShoots]

This was a great, well thought out video.

[@axelsxnumba1fan]

So, I'm really proud of you. I wish more people could admit when they interpret something incorrectly later on after more information is presented instead of doubling down. I watched some of your other JJK videos a while back, and I remember disagreeing immensely with that one point... I believed wholeheartedly since the Jogo scene that Sukuna was really there and it wasn't a near-death hallucination. Okay, okay.. I subbed now lol 😅

[@SentinalSlice]

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.

[@detectivecritics]

lovely video as always man

[@wumbojet]

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.

[@lumpy4321]

love the music choice

[@laurelaure3282]

sukuna wants pleasure? he doesn't try to get it. he gets it sukuna wants to fight? he doesn't try to fight. he fights sukuna wants to win? he doesn't try to win. he wins yuji wants to happiness? he tries to find happiness. he doesn't get it yuji wants to live? he tries to live. he dies yuji wants to save? he tries to save. he fails yuji wants to win? he tries to win. he loses THIS is the jujutsu kaisen cycle. sukuna wants something, yet doesnt try to get it, and even then he still gets it. yuji wants something, but tries to get it, and yet he fails to do it. this is what the sukuna cycle is for. it is to show us sukuna is a sort of deity that can simply not try and yet get and do whatever he wants. that is why he never went all out. and yet, that's exactly why he gets mad at yuji. u see, sukuna realized that only when u don't try for something, do u get it. at least that's what he thinks happens when u have power. that is why when he sees yuji with so much power and so much potential do his absolute best, it disgusts him to his core- while megumi with so much power and so much potential doing nothing actually makes him satisfied and look at him without being disgusted to his absolute deepest levels of his heart. u see, sukuna is a deity and when he sees someone not going on the same path as him- yuji- he hates it. this is because he sees him trying his best and failing knowing that if he simply doesn't try he will succeed. that is what sukuna is and that is what sukuna does. gege understands sukuna because gege built sukuna to be like this- a deity that knows going against your instincts and intuition is actually the wrong way, because everything came to him when he didn't try. that is what yuji is still failing to do even now- even in his domain specialized for sukuna to talk no jutsu him. he is trying to make sukuna connect with him and yet he can't, while sukuna can connect with other sorcerers without any of them trying. that is how sukuna is different and what sukuna operates on. that is why he didn't use his heian form against gojo. that is why he didn't use the world cutting slash in the beginning of the fight. that is why he never tries to do anything. because every single time in his life he wants something and doesn't try to get it, he does. that is why when he sees someone try and fail, such as yuji, it disgusts him. that is why he is so patient- because he knows his instinct to be lazy is the best. that is how sukuna is a deity in this story.

[@KannaWorks]

so basically Sukuna is the main character

[@ilovelawnmowers]

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.

[@Eyescabs]

the fact this just made me understand him better

[@pixelated4068]

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.

[@stunnagirl8465]

Insane comprehension skills

[@bigPPprincess]

Real. It's like how it's polite to cover your mouth to speak while you're eating. He'll hide it if he can, out of respect.

[@grantzu]

i love your points about the narrator not even being able to understand sukuna that is so good

[@TheAtraxIA]

The thing that breaks Sukuna from the Hedonistic paradox is that he ACCEPTS the pain, thus giving the pleasure worth, whilst pure hedonism AVOIDS the pain. At least that’s what I get from it.

[@zerototen5436]

Yeah this is it. You broke it down well. Great analysis 🙏🏼

[@pickachuman2802]

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.

[@PR3SVX]

32 minutes of genuinely interesting perspectives on Sukuna. Loved it

[@SamTheGumMan117]

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.

[@SentinalSlice]

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

[@RodrigoRaonne]

Great video Radman

[@thesuspensionofdisbelief]

nigga you didn't watch it

[@flickerbrick3399]

Zicka

[@princek_24]

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

[@dsaraon]

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

[@Fran-rd1nl]

Another piece of art of a video

[@danieldorvil7683]

I enjoyed thx for the vid

[@huntercoda4887]

Writing pure evil villans is harder than writing anti heros. So sukuna surprises me. He is a villan because he is but its done well.

[@multimediafan6777]

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

[@burningtrash6330]

Sukuna would thrive in a mr beast challenge

[@indigo4740]

Yep. This is the best Sukuna video. Yeah

[@Zetsujitsu]

i alone can understand everything about him, for i am his succesor, his first true disciple.

[@dcd3lt4]

Sukuna is the Tanjimoro of JJK fr fr 👍

[@errywibowo6132]

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

[@MrWescottX]

Ikr

[@Adamency23]

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

[@Syzygy_Bliss]

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.

[@matijajunger4800]

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.

[@call_Arapy]

WATERFALL MUSIC SPOTTED!

[@DudeReelTalk]

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.

[@warudos]

23:59 Good God damn point. There are things that humans will not be able to understand. Especially from the viewpoint of someone like yuji, who is a 15 year old kid. Sukunas lived many moons. His mindset is one built on eons and eons of seeing the world change. It really does just come down to you either understand or don't.

[@dripg0djv280]

Subscribed. Great analysis and perspective of the story

[@Ace-3.]

God bless and much love to all ❤ Glory and praise be to the Lord 🙏 By grace through faith we are saved

[@qurtmancini5539]

Hands down the best analysis ✌️

[@sox4830]

maybe yuuji understands him and maybe sukuna uses binding vows to seal his ideals in place, like philosophy inside the mind but cemented in place

[@abrahamkimu8683]

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