Ryomen Sukuna, more simply called Sukuna, is one of the main antagonists of Jujutsu Kaisen.
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Also known as the undisputed King of Plagues, Sukuna was a demonic spirit, originally a real human, living in the golden age of exorcism over 1000 years ago. The exorcists of that time did everything they could to defeat him and his mummified body could not be completely destroyed. Now his 20 fingers, preserved in funerary wax, have passed through the ages as relics. In the present, Sukuna has been incarnated in Yuji Itadori because the latter ate one of his cursed fingers containing his fragmented power.
Apparence
Its past appearance is described as a demon with four arms and two faces. He also seemed to have a second mouth on his stomach.
Currently, he appears similar to the host he is in (Yuji Itadori), but with more pointed and raised hair as well as special markings on his forehead, nose, cheeks, and chest. He also has a second pair of eyes under his normal eyes, which are usually closed. He also has tribal tattoos all over his body specifically Sukuna has two lines on both wrists and both arms, circles on both shoulders with a dot in each, two segmented curved lines on his chest and two lines on his belly while owning Yuji. He can appear partially on his host in the form of a mouth and/or an eye.
Sukuna wears a light colored kimono with a black border, a black scarf and black socks and sandals.
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Personality
Sukuna is a rather cold and greedy person. He often tries to take possession of Yuji's body because he is a person who likes to keep control of the situation, without caring about the consequences. He also has a sadistic personality and likes to see others suffer, especially humans. He never misses an opportunity to make his host suffer. He has a strong taste for fighting and pure strength, not hesitating to affirm that a hierarchy not based on power is useless when talking about the functioning of the exorcism school of Tokyo and is even interested in Megumi Fushiguro that he finds very promising, even going as far as saving her life.
Despite his somewhat brutal attitude, he is surprisingly intelligent and calculating as he took advantage of his host's unconsciousness to take full control of his body and eventually rip out his heart in order to kill him, but to keep his spirit alive in case it fails. He will take advantage of this spiritual talk to propose a contract to Yuji.
History
Past
Over a thousand years ago, Sukuna was a human living in the golden age of exorcism who fought against many exorcists. At some point in his life, he took on a demonic appearance and the name Ryomen Sukuna, and his mummified body became a relic that was subdivided into his 20 fingers (since he had 4 arms).
Arc Introduction
After Yuji eats one of his fingers to save his friends and his life, Sukuna resurfaces and incarnates in Yuji's body, much to his delight. Sukuna then plans to start a massacre but is stopped by Yuji who regains control of his body. When Megumi is about to execute Yuji to exorcise Sukuna, Satoru shows up and decides to test Yuji's resistance. Sukuna then receives control of Yuji's body and starts to attack Satoru, but the teenager manages to regain control of his body after ten seconds.
Arc Birth of the Matrix
During an investigation at a detention center, Sukuna is given control of Yuji's body to fight an S-class plague. Instead of confronting the spirit, Sukuna decides to join forces with it to eliminate Megumi. When the scourge starts to attack Sukuna, Sukuna easily blocks the attacks and dominates the scourge. Sukuna then decides to teach the spirit a lesson and uses his Territory Extension to easily cut the scourge into pieces. Sukuna then takes back his finger, which causes the scourge to be exorcised. Sukuna then tells Yuji to take back his body but becomes happy when the teenager does not respond.
Sukuna meets Megumi outside the detention center and removes Yuji's heart so that he doesn't trade places with her. Sukuna then eats the finger he just received from the S-class scourge and plans to kill Megumi. Sukuna begins to fight Megumi and easily defeats some of the exorcist's pets. Before the fight can come to an end, Yuji regains control of his body, resulting in his death.
Arc Initiation to the Occult
Later, Sukuna finds himself inside his living space with Yuji and starts a fight with the teenager. Sukuna easily overcomes Yuji and then tells him that they are not completely dead. He also offers him to bring him back to life, under certain conditions that mainly benefit Yuji. Yuji rejects and tells Sukuna to bring him back to life without any condition. Sukuna then proposes that they fight and that the winner gets his agreement, which Yuji accepts but the King of the Scourges easily beats him again. Despite his victory against the boy, Sukuna revives Yuji for his own plans.
Bow Against Mahito
Later, Sukuna finds himself inside his living space with Yuji and starts a fight with the teenager. Sukuna easily overcomes Yuji and then tells him that they are not completely dead. He also offers him to bring him back to life, under certain conditions that mainly benefit Yuji. Yuji rejects and tells Sukuna to bring him back to life without any condition. Sukuna then proposes that they fight and that the winner gets his agreement, which Yuji accepts but the King of the Scourges easily beats him again. Despite his victory against the boy, Sukuna revives Yuji for his own plans.
Yasohachi Bridge Mission Arch
After Sukuna wakes up in June 2018, the finger from Yasohachi's bridge wakes up and starts killing people. Megumi manages to defeat the spirit that has Sukuna's Finger and recover the relic, which Sukuna is happy to witness. After Yuji and Nobara Kugisaki reunite with Megumi, Sukuna creates a mouth on Yuji's palm and eats the finger when Megumi was about to give it to him.
A few days later, Sukuna makes fun of Yuji about how his alarm clock kills people because Yuji had eaten one of his fingers, to which the student replies that he should not repeat it in front of Megumi.
Shibuya Arc Drama
After Yuji loses to Choso in Shibuya, Sukuna wonders how Yuji could lose to such an inferior opponent.
Sukuna manages to take control of Yuji's body, after Nanako and Mimiko Hasaba and Jogo force feed Yuji some of Sukuna's Fingers. Sukuna makes the three of them kneel down in front of him, but cuts off the top of Jogo's head because he only had one knee on the ground. Sukuna asks the two sisters what they want and kills them right after they answer. Sukuna then turns to Jogo and repeats his question. Jogo answers that he doesn't want anything and explains that he just wants Sukuna to come back to life so that the era of the plagues can exist. After that, Sukuna rejects his proposal because he has other plans. Sukuna then makes a deal with Jogo: if he can strike a blow against him, he will do whatever he wants (for now), which Jogo accepts.
Sukuna then fights Jogo and dominates him completely. As Jogo uses his Superior Technique: Meteorite, Sukuna forces humans to stay put until he gives the signal. When the attack lands, Sukuna easily escapes unscathed. Sukuna wonders why Jogo doesn't use his Territory Extension, to which the scourge replies that his territory would lose. As things progress, Sukuna begins to use fire-based attacks much to Jogo's confusion. The fight continues and Sukuna defeats Jogo.
As he is dying, Sukuna goes to meet him and explains how weak Jogo is for trying to be like humans. Sukuna also explains that he had fun fighting him and that he should be proud of his power. Jogo starts to cry and wonders what it is, to which Sukuna replies that he doesn't know. Suddenly, a person appears behind Sukuna to escort him. Sukuna wonders who it is but realizes that the person is Uraume. Sukuna then senses that Megumi has summoned a powerful pet and tells Uraume that he has something to do. Sukuna also tells him that it won't be long before he is completely free and that Uraume shouldn't neglect their preparations. Sukune then says goodbye to Uraume and leaves.
Sukuna quickly arrives at the location of the pet and saves the flail master who was fighting Megumi. Sukuna then heals the student exorcist and tells him not to die yet because he still needs Megumi to do something. Sukuna then thinks about how he will defeat the familiar. Makora, the familiar, attacks Sukuna with his sword, which the King of the Scourges manages to block. Sukuna then hurts Makora with his technique and thinks that Makora's sword is able to exorcise any spirit because it uses positive occult energy. Makora then counters Sukuna's attacks and sends him flying through several buildings. Makora attacks again but Sukuna dodges and wounds the pet.
Makora heals himself, and Sukuna envisions that Makora's ability is to adapt to all phenomena. Sukuna also thinks that this is what Megumi was trying to summon during their last fight, and that Makora would have surely killed him. Sukuna then calls upon the Demonic Altar, and uses its effect to cut everything at 200 meters. Meanwhile, Sukuna thinks about how to use his ability to defeat Makora. When Makora starts to heal, Sukuna uses his fire power to defeat Makora.
Sukuna starts to leave and tells Megumi's assailant to leave. However, the master of the plagues rushes into Sukuna's territory and dies. Sukuna then takes Megumi to be healed and leaves thinking that he won't be awake much longer. Sukuna then returns to the place where he had fought Makora and tells Yuji to take a look while Yuji regains control of his body.
Yuji's Execution Bow
When Yuta Okkotsu stabs Yuji in the heart, Sukuna is at first baffled, but quickly smiles as Yuta uses his reversal spell to heal Yuji right after.
Skills & Competencies
Sukuna is an S-class scourge. Considered the undisputed king of the scourges, Sukuna possesses incredible strength and presence, a presence that almost petrified his opponents when he awakened in Shibuya. He quickly dominated and defeated Jogo, the most powerful scourge of Mahito's faction. Even Satoru recognized Sukuna's strength, declaring that fighting him would be difficult. With each appearance, Sukuna proved that he was by far the strongest scourge of all time. He seriously injured Mahito when he was angry, defeated Jogo without much difficulty, and even defeated Makora, the most powerful pet in the Ten Shadow Technique. His strength is so great that Mahito and Jogo were convinced that Sukuna's complete resurrection could ensure the era of the plagues. Sukuna's strength is rivaled by only a few people, even among the S classes, with Satoru being one of the few, if not the only person, who can claim to defeat him (as far as we know).
Incarnation: There is a slim chance that Sukuna will incarnate into whoever eats his fingers, gaining a physical, human body in the process. After Yuji consumed the first of his fingers, Sukuna immediately took over his body.
Skilled in hand-to-hand combat: Sukuna is an extremely skilled and powerful hand-to-hand combatant. He is shown crushing Megumi with single powerful physical blows. Sukuna can combine his spell with his hand-to-hand prowess, making him an extremely difficult opponent to defeat in combat.
Superhuman Strength: In Yuji's body, Sukuna possesses superhuman strength and has managed to send a person through several floors of a building without effort. Even in an incomplete state, he easily overpowered the blows of a Finger Carrier, an S-Class Scourge. In this same state, he easily overpowered and destroyed Megumi's most powerful pet. He even hit Megumi so hard that he sent her flying through a building. In the same case but with fifteen of his fingers, Sukuna hit Jogo through buildings and even destroyed the latter's jaw. His blows had a considerable effect on Makora.
Superhuman speed and reflexes: Sukuna has shown that he moves with such incredible speed that it is already too late for his opponent to notice that he has moved. He can easily counter any opponent and has shown that coupled with his speed, he can lacerate his opponent before the latter can notice.
Great tactical intelligence: Sukuna is an incredibly intelligent scourge. He has a deep understanding of the nature of spells and occult energy as a whole. Because of this, he is able to quickly deduce the inner workings of spells after seeing them only once or twice, as well as create appropriate parries for these techniques. The most obvious example of this is the
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Immense Occult Energy: Sukuna possesses immense levels of occult energy as the most powerful scourge. He has been able to use his techniques continuously throughout his fights without exhausting himself in the least. He has skillful control over his occult energy, being able to use Territory Expansion and the reversal spell. The only other person who uses both techniques is Satoru.
Innate Spell: The name of Sukuna's spell is unknown, but he has been shown to use his occult energy to cut targets with which he has two types. Sukuna has also been shown to use fire-based powers.
- Release: His common slashing attack.
- Chop: A precise cutting technique that slices through the target by measuring the density of the occult energy.
- Unnamed Fire Ability: Sukuna has proven to be able to manipulate fire for long-range attacks.
- Territory Expansion: Demon Altar: Sukuna's Territory Expansion creates a Buddhist shrine decorated with skulls in which his Liberation and Chop techniques absolutely slice through anyone who sets foot in his territory. Unlike other territories, Sukuna's does not distort space by creating a "barrier. And by adding an oath, Sukuna increases the effectiveness and scope of the territory. It would seem that the Demonic Altar is a sharp technique because in his fight against the S-Class Scourge Jogo, Jogo said that he would surely lose in a territory fight against Sukuna.
Reversal Spell (Hanten Jutsushiki): Due to his S-Class Scourge nature, Sukuna can easily use the Reversal spell to regenerate his lost limbs in an instant. The regained limbs retain the same integrity as the rest of Sukuna's body. He can also heal himself and others.
Oath (Shibari): When Yuji was "dead", Sukuna offered him a contract that would allow him to heal in exchange for allowing the scourge to take control for a minute every time he said a keyword. He also promised not to kill anyone during that time as long as Yuji forgot the contract. He sometimes uses a self-imposed oath to increase the effectiveness of his techniques.
Fighting
| Fights of Ryomen Sukuna |
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Arc Introduction
Arc Birth of the Matrix
Arc Initiation to the Occult
Shibuya Arc Drama
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Anecdotes
- The name Sukuna contains the kanji for "inn" (suku) and "exorcism" (na). As for its other name, Ryomen, it literally means "double-sided" (ryōmen).
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- Sukuna's kimono is very loose, like a woman's kimono, because this space gave him more comfort while having four arms in the past.
- Sukuna is based on the figure of the same name from Japanese mythology: Ryōmen-Sukuna. He is a demonic specter-like figure described in the Nihon Shoki, who is said to have appeared in the province of Hida (now Gifu Prefecture) in ancient times, during the reign of Emperor Nintoku.
- He was described as a man of inhuman strength, with a two-faced head plus a total of eight limbs, four arms and legs that served each face respectively. Wielding a multitude of weapons in his many hands (including a bow, arrow and sword), he terrorized village after village in ancient Hida, looting and leaving chaos in his wake. That is, until a brave military commander sent by the imperial court, named Takefurukuma, stepped forward and put an end to the monster's tyranny, expelling him from Hida.
- Sukuna was worshipped by some as a minor deity, and statues distinctly depicting his two-faced head can still be found today in temples and shrines in Gifu.
- Sukuna ranked 10th in the 1st Manga Character Popularity Poll with 5,860 votes.
- According to the official fanbook :
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- What Sukuna likes to do is eat.
- He doesn't hate anything in particular because he doesn't care about anything but himself.
- When he was still human, Sukuna was a kind of master of plagues. Gege Akutami adds that he was more like a natural disaster.
- Sukuna has memories of himself as a human. However, when he was, he is not sure that Sukuna himself or his relatives perceived him as "human".
- Akutami explains that in terms of the fear inspired in others, Sukuna when he was alive could not be compared to Satoru. However, this does not mean that he was not feared. Indeed, in the past, exorcists and plagues were more vicious than they are today. It's as if it gradually calmed down and then started to pick up again after Satoru came into the world.
- When he was still human, the people around him were terrified of him. Before and after he became a plague, he was always known as the "King of Plagues".
- Sukuna's greatest pleasure is eating.
- His fingers taste like soap because they have been dipped in funeral wax.
- If a scourge eats Sukuna's finger, the spirit of the scourge will not take over as scourges cannot be vessels.
- When Yuji "died", it had no effect on Sukuna because Sukuna was always in his territory and resurrected her with a reversal spell. However, if more time had passed, Sukuna would have died with Yuji.
- Sukuna can share his vision with Yuji. However, if a finger is sealed or eaten by a plague, then there is almost no information that can be gleaned. He can only sense if they are close or not. If a finger is not sealed, Sukuna will have a general sense of its surroundings. That's why he commented "That's good" to Megumi at the Yasohachi bridge.
- It seems that humans who have done enough research may know some details about Sukuna's slicing spells. However, they will have no knowledge of his fire spell.
- Although in real life Sukuna's character is revered, in Jujutsu Kaisen it is quite different. Indeed, Sukuna is called Sukuna because he looks and is powerful like the real world Sukuna
- Sukuna never had a wife or children. Uraume was his servant.
- Sukuna won the "Best Antagonist" award at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2021.
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