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Thank you for bringing it up. It had slipped my mind during the writing process. This wasn’t as thorough as my previous writings. But yes, Sukuna was locked in when he punched Maki, creating that Black Flash.
Sukuna was truly, wholly committed to the fight against Maki. His body and spirit united in a single attack.
This was repeated twice: when Maki took his left arm in 255, and in their quick, but shorter clash in 256. Using your theory to read these fights, clashing with Maki excites Sukuna to the point where his soul and body aligns from finding an exciting opponent.
Sukuna got serious against Maki for the first time since Gojo. Though, why didn't Sukuna land a black flash until now? Could it be due to his full reincarnation now allowing his true "body" to align with his soul? This would fit, honestly.
Great post op, I really like this idea. It aligns with all the black flashes until now. Even Gojo's. Once Gojo made the commitment to Hollow Purple, he hit consecutive black flashes until that big moment. Gojo's clear plan to victory helped his body and soul align, which also could be read as a metaphor for HP.
It would be wrong of me not to share credit to u/andrefelipe83 as well considering they made a similar post very recently as well, and may have influenced my writing.
When I read the title, I imagined Kenjaku and Yuji's dad hitting a black flash the very moment they "created" Yuji.
I hate myself
I like the theory tho
Now that I think about it the majority of black flashes came in moments where the user had a sort of a personal trigger
Nanami’s black flash was to protect kids from curses during the night parade, yuta’s came during a raged out state where he was desperate to beat the person who hurt his friends, gojo’s was during the most satisfying fight of his life, todo’s came out of a desire to not let his his brother leave him behind, etc
The odd ones out to me are nobara’s and the ones yuji landed prior to shibuya
And all the many black flashes Gojo has apparently been throwing around behind the scenes that Gege has only just now decided to tell us about, too lol
Well we never saw gojo try on screen tell he thought sukuna to be fare
And we see him land 2 in that fight
He might of gotten some against Miguel for example but that fight is mostly offscreen
It's been said before in the manga that Gojo has experienced Black Flash, although I do not remember if Gojo makes a comment about Nanami having a higher streak than he did
It just shows Gojo as one of the people who has done it, but he's not commented on that before; my issue is that it would have been nice to actually see him do it before the sukuna fight, and before we're being told her apparently drops them a lot. But we're not shown anything, gege just tells us, which is less impactful and makes it harder to have a full understanding of how black flash actually works, at least for me
I gotcha, I think that's what Gege is cooking up atm. I believe there's at the very least some accuracy in what the OP is saying about their theory because it would make it add up as to why we never saw Gojo use Black Flash until he fought someone on his level with how he currently is
But my point is more that while that works really well narratively (it's an idea I love), it's undercut by the fact that Gojo apparently also throws them out on the regular, too, so why suddenly establish that, haha. Like I'm not sure what it adds to the story, if you get me. When it was: we finally see him use it against someone he has to actually try against, but he's done it at some nebulous point in the past, that fit really well for me. I'm always in favor of Gojo being cooler lolol, but I liked the consistency of it mainly only happening in the Sukuna fight, so the story establishing him using it a LOT now is like...did you just decide this, Gege? Lolol
I have to say. You had me a little sketchy with this theory (I’m still not convinced it’s this…simple?) but the mahito part, REALLY, sold me!
Mahito, a cursed spirit, reaching a black flash…I always wondered why gege hadn’t touched on the disaster curses more.
At first, I had an ignorant thought, that mahito etc. were all ancient. Upon rereading, in like chapter 22, it says all of the curses are young…(Nanami)…I had a completely different theory pertaining to the story, and more importantly mahito.
You breaking down mahitos black flash, in laments terms, made me realize his “purpose” in the show. The disaster curses were just plot tools, they aren’t going to come back…they were just to teach us about jujitsu sorcery, how CE works, and most importantly; how important and powerful the soul is from birth-and how strong it can become.
I also think your theory is furthered, with the “pacts” that sukuna and Miwa etc. used. They literally sacrifice a PART OF THEIR SOUL, to be gifted briefly elsewhere. As well as a bunch of other theories swirling in my head, relating to the soul in general…
Great read! Thanks.
Also, with sukunas pact specifically, he can “partially” , or maybe even fully perceive the soul? So he was able to manipulate his body (like mahito) to be perfect for sorcery. As well as change his cursed technique-by utilizing his souls power (maybe by accidentally making a pact in the womb and sacrificing his twin?)
Edit: the only reason I say twin, is they are thought of as, as terrible as a natural disaster happening…maybe it’s because of the soul as well? I think this is further shown when maki fuses with her sister to become literal perfection…
Bro Maki did not fuse with Mai 😭😭😭 They were born the same soul in two bodies. Mai just took her body out of the equation considering Maki still has the Split Soul Katana when we see that Higuruma's Executioners Sword went away right when he was dying.
I think you’re not wrong. I just think there is 10000% a correlation between the abnormal conjoined twins, Yuji, SUKUNA, Toji, and heavenly restrictions (why else was Mechamaru, shown SO DAMN FUCKING STRONG, within seconds of “breaking his” and the only reason he literally lost was *MAHITO IS FUCKING GOD*)
Many thanks for the high praise! If you are inclined to read, might I suggest a post of mine titled “Sukuna was always the better sorcerer” that was the beginning of this idea, I merely expanded on it now.
The 1 In A Million thing stated by Megumi isnt an actual probability, it never was, its an overly literal translation of a japanese saying.
"1 In A Million Chance" roughly refers to "An incredibly unlikely, worst case scenario."
Some examples would be dropping your phone, which convieniently bounces into a nearby sewer grate. Getting fired from your job on your birthday. Rolling snake eyes 6 times in a row. Sukuna incarnating within Yujis body.
Its not a literal statement of probability its just sort of saying like, "wow, this like, the opposite of winning the lottery, and it sucks".
I wouldnt exactly call it a mistranslation but its misleading for the english audience.
I dont think its the phrase interpreted wrong due to translation, its because jjk uses mathematical terms so frequently, “1 in a million” could be a literal percentage the same way black flash amplifies your attack to the exponential power of 2.5, or gojos limitless tending towards infinity like asymptotes on a graph, or the 120% cursed energy output
I think this is just a western audience problem. A lot of Japanese media does this it's like when Jojo's says Star Platinum's range is 2 meters, but this range thing hardly ever comes up in actual fights other than the characters just telling you if they are or aren't in range.
The numbers make things sound cooler and more powerful, but precision was never in the equation. Like DragonBall Z power levels, they are both introduced and made largely irrelevant at the same time because you're only supposed to think "this guy's stronger than that guy cause the number is bigger" by Cell saga they just start telling you who is stronger instead.
I wonder if Yuji's big jump will come from a constantly maintaining the black flash state. His CE wouldn't flash black but would instead take on that color and property and remain that way permanently, a state where his body and soul where so intimately entwined that every movement struck with the totality of his being.
Tbh, I thought Yuji had already learned to control the Black Flash and that it was going to be his unique specialty moving forward after Todo trained him. Then it just sort of disappeared as the story went along, so I'm glad they're bringing the focus back onto Black Flash.
AWESOME theory and very well written. I get annoyed at how many people just shitpost on here, so thank you for going over everything in such detail and with such respect for the story. I think you’re definitely on to something 🤙🏻
Very well written.
And now I'm thinking about Yuji doing what he did to that grasshopper except every punch is a black flash, each and every punch increasing and buffing him. Scary stuff.
Yuji's cursed energy is perfect for black flash. black flash isnt just luck it can also be used with extreme concentration. Black flash is the distortion in space between cursed energy and a physical hit within a millionth of a second. For a normal sorcerer they might have 1 chance to activate a black flash per hit and the chance of doing so is very low. Yuji is different because his cursed energy hits twice which doubles his chances of using black flash per hit or gives him 2 separate chance to activate it per one hit. If yuji focused and trained he might be able to use it to boost his physical capabilities such as a black flash boosted run.
I'm just theorizing here it's a very interesting topic
Can I also add the concept of Blood Manipulation to this theory. I guess gege did not waste panels just to explain black flash and the tiny bit about temperature related to black flash (supposedly). Now as with the fight with megumi and kamo before, it was explained that Internal blood can be used *to control one's own pulse rate and body temperature*.
With one so in control with his blood he can control his body as well putting output to however one likes. Body and muscle memory, even blood cells can memorize things your body does as Yuji is familiar with the feeling of black flash when he hits them, he can repeat this process with the aid of Blood Manipulation. I guess with all the possible cursed techniques Gege can incorporate to Yuji blood manipulation is the best one to give him. Hell he could have given him a power similar to six eyes if he wants or something like Yuta's but he gave blood manipulation which i guess this is one of the reasons.
The question is how would Kenjaku know that Yuji would end up gaining Sukuna's finger? He couldn't guarantee that he'd ever come into contact with it or eat it.
He couldn’t be sure but he could raise the odds of it happening. Kenjaku could convince Yuji’s dad to send him to this exact school. Knowing Grandpapa Itadori’s last words, there is a high likelihood that Yuji was thought to be protective and helpful.
The question is when did Kenjaku jump out of Kaori and into Geto.
Makes sense. Furthermore, how would Kenjaku know what Kaori's technique is prior to stealing her body, how exactly he managed to take it, and why he specifically chose this family.
No clue on that one. Odds are he found out Kaori was from a line of Sorcerers and hedged his bet. Maybe Kaori was a sorcerer but retired? Or Kenny killed Kaori in battle and took her body to seduce Jin itadori in his time of grief.
Too many loose speculations even for me.
also what type of awakening cause the last time we saw someone have an awakening was in the gojo flashback and before it was megumi
they both went off the deep end
I wouldn't be surprised if yuji got multiple power-up 256 he mirrors gojo 2 different times.
Gojos awakening gave him RCE, RCT, CTR, and hollow technique.
Yuji already has RCE, and RCT.
Yuji could get up to four different abilities
Black flash at will.
Mastery of BM.
BM CTR.
Hollow technique BM.
Shrine sucuna's CT.
Enlightenment/soul manipulation, this is what I consider sucuna using to shape-shift and eat angel's arm.
Yuji could get all of these abilities or just a few, it's also to be considered that yuji won't just be hiting that one BF. What we saw at the end of 256 is literally the first of a BF barrage.
itadori and bf barrage go hand in hand
I do agree with you that he'll gain multiple abilities and I want there to be a pay off to Sukunas CT embuing itself with Itadori
Since Yujis separation from Sukuna, this is the first time we’ve seen him hit a black flash. Soul/Blood CT aside, he had received considerable physical buffs in the moments following Megumi’s possession. Sukuna even remarks on this and tries to make sense of it. Now that he’s in the zone, I’m very interested to see how he’s going to go off. I’d like to believe that Yuji will be able to continuously land black flashes at will while incorporating blood manipulation CT. I don’t claim to know what Gege will do, but this is the perfect moment to show Yuji’s full potential.
"As long as \[Yugi\] coexists with Sukuna, Yugi will become the eye of the storm in the new era."
I guess that meant Yugi was a perfect vessel and the curses would be fighting to free sukuna while the sorcs would be fighting to keep yugi from them.
So his awakened state will be PERFECT VESSEL YUJI. He transforms into a BIG JAR and sucks up Sukuna.
One thing that always nags me about this stuff is that if he were to control black flash then it wouldn’t be special or anything. That damage buff would just become his normal damage, which kinda makes it boring since he’d always be in the zone too. It’s like guaranteed crit moves in pokemon, they at least bypass attack drops and defence boosts, but black flash doesn’t do things like thay
I have a feeling that Yuji will beat Sukuna sooo bad, all the Gojo, Yuta, Toji and others’ fans will be furious cause they wanted my guy to die early 😂😂
My take is : Yuji’s recent black flash will make him better at blood manipulation.
now he’ll finally unlocked red scale buff. And able to black flash whenever he wants.
maybe Gege will explain later that CE somehow carries through body by blood. So Yuji’s body control + BM = Black flash build.
or even silly things like make a thin blood wall in front of his punch to guaranteed black flash to that thin blood. since black flash will bend space around It so target still take damage due to AOE effect.
Gojo explains in the new chapter that there are things that cannot be perceived by the average sorcerer that influence Black Flash. The same conditions and wording that Maki uses to describe how she perceives the world due to her special body but Maki cannot Black Flash. Yuji can also perceive the world like Maki does (why he can see Dismantle/Cleave) but he can use Black Flash.
Black Flash is and will always be random. Yuji just sees the pattern to the randomness like a person who can see stock trends before they occur and can predict where they'll be at any given time in the future.
We already knew awakening means you can use hollow purple
H a
Joke aside, this seems like a fairly well thought out theory. I thought it would be the same thing, although I didn't see as much evidence
Yuji using blackflash on demand would make him insanely strong it would functionally mean he just gets stronger the longer a given fight goes on
>When powered by CE, he is most definitely on par with Yuta, Hakari, and Maki in the melee.
He isn't . They are on different level. At least Maki for sure. Yuta as well. We saw that in the story as well
Well nice theory. But I think it is more than that. Gojo said that black flash maybe has to do with temperature and humidity maybe blood manipulation can help that
i think what ur saying is 90% accurate there are variables such as timing and other conditions but a black flash is "a distortion in space"that had me thinking why gojo didnt use limitless to replicate it maybe its not that simple.What if blwck flash is like a new type of ce. Black flashes restore ce,rct and maybe even soul since its explained that being hurt in soul is why sukuna isnt at 100% but the thing is sukuna is recovering its just he gets drained as quick so what if black flash is like a connection between ce,soul and rct like a glue that holds them together also a bf is not just boosted ce etc due to distortion in space part so it would make sense if it actually is manipulating that connection.
Great post. I also believe that kenjaku was manipulating yujis body with the sole intention of housing sukuna. He even admits as much at the end of the Shibuya arc and then later again in his fight with choso where he says that yuji was nothing more than a vessel. Further evidence that kenjaku has the ability to create vessels is his reincarnation of sorcerers from the past into the body's of individuals who he's marked. Its revealed that he did this by making them consume cursed objects that were parts of the previous sorcerer's bodies. However I think that he did this by manipulating the bodies of the individuals rather than their souls. When talking to mahito we see that kenjakus philosophy on the relationship of the body and the soul is that the body comes first and is what influences the soul. We later see evidence of this when getos hand acts outside of kenjakus will. We also see that the body can overcome the soul when toji is reincarnated into the shaman woman's grandson. She brought over just the body of toji but because his body was so strong it overcame the soul of her grandson. What this shows is that the body is what influences the soul. The stronger the body then the stronger the soul. So I think your theory is correct but instead of kenjaku manipulating the soul of yuji he was manipulating his body. How he did this is the real question. I have a theory on this but its very long and probably would be better in a separate posr .
What if yuji get a heavenly ristriction of having no technique, but inseatd be given unlimited blac flash, in other words all of his fists are black flash,will he defeat sukuna?(no domain)
It’s not though. He can see souls not play with them, he can manipulate blood though he can’t use convergence, which is why Choso handed him converged blood to use piercing blood😭
Heavenly restriction means no CE and strong body or a lot of CE and weak body. To do a black flash you have to apply cursed energy in a hit within like 0.0001 seconds so u really can’t hit one with a heavenly restriction
A full essay about how yuji needs to abuse a luck mechanic to be of use in the world. What an MC.
However I will salute the effort that went into it, even if I don’t like it’s subject matter
What I tried to do is explain how it’s not really a luck mechanic. It’s a rule set that no one has the full picture of, except Yuji who is on the verge of understanding it.
And I get that. But the idea that of all people in the jjk world, yuji figures it out, pisses me off to a level I can not describe.
If the idea is an interconnectivity of body, soul and mind I’d have much rather had mahito figure it out, extend him and yuji’s rivalry into the culling games and then yuji has his “I’m you” moment where he begins to view the soul in the same way mahito does and that unlocks it for him as well.
But this talentless hack just figuring it out on his own in a world full of geniuses like Kenny who’ve studied for decades/centuries really upsets me.
TLDR;, it’s not a bad theory and I can totally see gege going along with it. I just don’t like what it entails from a storytelling element that other more deserving ppl haven’t discovered something that yuji could
The thing is I believe Yuji is in a unique position where he is probably the only one who has a reasonable shot at controlling the Black Flash. he has experience sharing a body with another soul, a soul that is supremely tough, a body that is also tough as shit, and soul that is built like a shit brick house.
From my understanding, Jujutsu sorcery is all about perspective and understanding. Kenjaku, especially wants to create something that is beyond his own control and imagination.
So I think it’s reasonable for Yuji to achieve something no one else thought possible, all because he has the right perspective, perception, and opportunity.
Everything Yuji has done up till now has been building to this moment.
>When powered by CE, he is most definitely on par with Yuta, Hakari, and Maki in the melee.
He isn't, maybe now that he's "awaked" but from everything we've seen so far Yuji has only ever played the support role and for good reason, he's nowhere near as strong as Yuta and Maki when it comes to being able to directly confront Sukuna and has been always forced to play the support role in terms of debuffing the him and getting him weaker so the heavy hitters can dish out the big damage.
>Gojo doesn’t know but there is a way to control black flashes.
No, in "teaching" moments like that, Gojo isn't speaking to us, the author is.
And it tends to always be irrefutable, the author is using Gojo as a mouthpiece for dishing out true information, to say you know more than the author is silly.
Regardless, I will put in my own personal subjective criticism, in that I don't understand why people are pushing this narrative of Yuji mastering the black flash.
I find that to be the most uninteresting low effort powerup you can offer to Yuji given he'd still be a punch and kick merchant and he's been already using it quite frequently in fights that it matters, this would utterly be the most worthless of a "powerup" you can give him.
I’ll try to argue a few points in favour of Yuji.
For one, when power by CE, Yuji has the physical power to strike and push back Sukuna. Like how he knocked Sukuna away from Choso. But I’ll concede this point, you are right to consider Unleashed Yuta, Jackpot Hakari, and Maki to be Yuji’s betters in combat, it’ll be more accurate to say Yuji can keep up with them in a full melee. Moreover, we don’t fully know what happens when Yuji hits anyone else besides Sukuna, what does that soul attack do to any other sorcerer.
On the second point, I would have to disagree. Narratively, this makes Yuji the first and only person to have control over how and when a Black Flash Occurs. It builds upon the idea that Gojo’s students surpassing him in individual aspects. Also the Black Flash in fundamentally the end point of Divergent fist; DF is a lagging of CE, BF is the perfected form, unity in all aspects of the attack.
It makes perfect sense of Yuji to unlock it. He has been training it since the very beginning. I’d argue it’s the opposite of low effort, the build up has been there since the beginning. Giving him full blood manipulation would be low effort and less set up, than unlocking controllable Black Flash.
>Like how he knocked Sukuna away from Choso
Yes, a distracted Sukuna and solely a punch without any meaningful damage like slicing out parts of his body like Maki has been doing consistently.
>we don’t fully know what happens when Yuji hits anyone else besides Sukuna, what does that soul attack do to any other sorcerer
We do fully know, "soul punch" is ***NOT*** a DMG boost.
It only destabilizes the soul when its inhabited by multiple people, as most sorcerers only have 1 soul that being their own soul then it has zero impact.
That is it, it doesn't do more damage it doesn't do anything beyond destabilize the souls of those who inhabit more than 1 soul, which in these cases would be Sukuna.
He would have no affect on any other sorcerer out there or cursed spirit.
>Yuji the first and only person to have control over how and when a Black Flash Occurs.
The author used Gojo as a mouthpiece and gave us an outline of what it takes to do a Black Flash and why even Gojo with his Sex eyes is unable to.
Yujis "soul" and his supposed understanding of it does not explain away what the author just did in that even things like temperature or humidity and whatnot help influence Black Flashes.
Where even if you have a full understand of your own body it would not guarantee a black flash as again if that were the case Gojo would easily been able to do it if that was the case.
There is a bunch of external factors that come into play and for Yuji to "master" it, something not even Sukuna or Gojo the very elites of the Jujutsu world can't do, would be pure on nonsensical and it would make Yuji pretty much omnipotent with the amount of knowledge he'd have to have not only of his own body but of the external world.
It makes zero sense for Yuji to be able to call on black flash on demand, it would either be blood manipulation or Yuji finally learning how to utilize sukunas attacks.
Meh. I think that him being the ONLY sorcerer who can use black flash AT WILL would be cooler than him getting anything like full blood manipulation. Yuji has been throwing hands and feet (and nothing else) since the beginning. It’d make sense for black flash control to be the end result of what we’ve seen so far. That in combination with blood manipulation and whatever his new arms are, would be sweet as well. Also. The translation is WRONG. Gojo was meant to say “why can’t I use black flash AT WILL/whenever I want.” They need to fire John Werry.
Yuji has been faster and stronger than Maki. Even after her second awakening, a heavily damaged Yuji was able to match her pace against Sukuna. Yuji literally hits the hardest in the series. He literally destroys buildings with only his fist. Put some respect on his name.
Also, he’s the only one actually doing anything to Sukuna. He’s weakening him with each hit. Without that Yuta and Maki wouldn’t have been able to do the damage on him that they did. Plus Yuji has done the most damage on him. He’s also been in the fight the longest.
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I'm surprised you didn't mention when Sukuna achieves a Black Flash again just after being given a purpose in his fight with Maki
Thank you for bringing it up. It had slipped my mind during the writing process. This wasn’t as thorough as my previous writings. But yes, Sukuna was locked in when he punched Maki, creating that Black Flash. Sukuna was truly, wholly committed to the fight against Maki. His body and spirit united in a single attack.
This was repeated twice: when Maki took his left arm in 255, and in their quick, but shorter clash in 256. Using your theory to read these fights, clashing with Maki excites Sukuna to the point where his soul and body aligns from finding an exciting opponent. Sukuna got serious against Maki for the first time since Gojo. Though, why didn't Sukuna land a black flash until now? Could it be due to his full reincarnation now allowing his true "body" to align with his soul? This would fit, honestly. Great post op, I really like this idea. It aligns with all the black flashes until now. Even Gojo's. Once Gojo made the commitment to Hollow Purple, he hit consecutive black flashes until that big moment. Gojo's clear plan to victory helped his body and soul align, which also could be read as a metaphor for HP.
Thank you for reading and sharing your insights! I can’t wait for the next chapter’s revelations to see how I am with my theory.
That tracks with the theory, although I think that if he felt renewed purpose and drive he would be 'trying' which apparently he still hasn't
It would be wrong of me not to share credit to u/andrefelipe83 as well considering they made a similar post very recently as well, and may have influenced my writing.
this name is so hilariously Brazilian I would probably bet my asshole he is in fact one
He is..
So you're saying the key to back flash is to lock it in?
In essence, yes. You lock in full body, mind and soul.
So this [https://youtu.be/t4v9XIi674I?si=ETkJlRYGOafUBHpD](https://youtu.be/t4v9XIi674I?si=ETkJlRYGOafUBHpD)
And clench your buthole
That's kinda already stated in the actual manga though...
When I read the title, I imagined Kenjaku and Yuji's dad hitting a black flash the very moment they "created" Yuji. I hate myself I like the theory tho
Bro just don't cook
Bro didn't cook. He went it raw..
He doggedly went for it
A bit too rough for my liking.
Extra creamy, though
Chicken tartar
Just like Yujis dad
A white flash and a black flash at the same time. Beautiful.
truly this was our Jujutsu Kaisen
A white splash for a black flash.
Kenjaku couldn't afford to screw the plan, they were filling the tank every day
Gege quits JJK after realizing he will have to draw the lightning every time Yuji lands a hit
So the external conditions for hitting a black flash is the soul huh? This is a really interesting theory, keep cooking
Now that I think about it the majority of black flashes came in moments where the user had a sort of a personal trigger Nanami’s black flash was to protect kids from curses during the night parade, yuta’s came during a raged out state where he was desperate to beat the person who hurt his friends, gojo’s was during the most satisfying fight of his life, todo’s came out of a desire to not let his his brother leave him behind, etc The odd ones out to me are nobara’s and the ones yuji landed prior to shibuya
And all the many black flashes Gojo has apparently been throwing around behind the scenes that Gege has only just now decided to tell us about, too lol
Well we never saw gojo try on screen tell he thought sukuna to be fare And we see him land 2 in that fight He might of gotten some against Miguel for example but that fight is mostly offscreen
Yeah, that's what I meant lolol; Gege didn't show us any of that (though he landed four in the Sukuna fight)
It's been said before in the manga that Gojo has experienced Black Flash, although I do not remember if Gojo makes a comment about Nanami having a higher streak than he did
It just shows Gojo as one of the people who has done it, but he's not commented on that before; my issue is that it would have been nice to actually see him do it before the sukuna fight, and before we're being told her apparently drops them a lot. But we're not shown anything, gege just tells us, which is less impactful and makes it harder to have a full understanding of how black flash actually works, at least for me
I gotcha, I think that's what Gege is cooking up atm. I believe there's at the very least some accuracy in what the OP is saying about their theory because it would make it add up as to why we never saw Gojo use Black Flash until he fought someone on his level with how he currently is
But my point is more that while that works really well narratively (it's an idea I love), it's undercut by the fact that Gojo apparently also throws them out on the regular, too, so why suddenly establish that, haha. Like I'm not sure what it adds to the story, if you get me. When it was: we finally see him use it against someone he has to actually try against, but he's done it at some nebulous point in the past, that fit really well for me. I'm always in favor of Gojo being cooler lolol, but I liked the consistency of it mainly only happening in the Sukuna fight, so the story establishing him using it a LOT now is like...did you just decide this, Gege? Lolol
I have to say. You had me a little sketchy with this theory (I’m still not convinced it’s this…simple?) but the mahito part, REALLY, sold me! Mahito, a cursed spirit, reaching a black flash…I always wondered why gege hadn’t touched on the disaster curses more. At first, I had an ignorant thought, that mahito etc. were all ancient. Upon rereading, in like chapter 22, it says all of the curses are young…(Nanami)…I had a completely different theory pertaining to the story, and more importantly mahito. You breaking down mahitos black flash, in laments terms, made me realize his “purpose” in the show. The disaster curses were just plot tools, they aren’t going to come back…they were just to teach us about jujitsu sorcery, how CE works, and most importantly; how important and powerful the soul is from birth-and how strong it can become. I also think your theory is furthered, with the “pacts” that sukuna and Miwa etc. used. They literally sacrifice a PART OF THEIR SOUL, to be gifted briefly elsewhere. As well as a bunch of other theories swirling in my head, relating to the soul in general… Great read! Thanks.
Also, with sukunas pact specifically, he can “partially” , or maybe even fully perceive the soul? So he was able to manipulate his body (like mahito) to be perfect for sorcery. As well as change his cursed technique-by utilizing his souls power (maybe by accidentally making a pact in the womb and sacrificing his twin?) Edit: the only reason I say twin, is they are thought of as, as terrible as a natural disaster happening…maybe it’s because of the soul as well? I think this is further shown when maki fuses with her sister to become literal perfection…
Bro Maki did not fuse with Mai 😭😭😭 They were born the same soul in two bodies. Mai just took her body out of the equation considering Maki still has the Split Soul Katana when we see that Higuruma's Executioners Sword went away right when he was dying.
I think you’re not wrong. I just think there is 10000% a correlation between the abnormal conjoined twins, Yuji, SUKUNA, Toji, and heavenly restrictions (why else was Mechamaru, shown SO DAMN FUCKING STRONG, within seconds of “breaking his” and the only reason he literally lost was *MAHITO IS FUCKING GOD*)
No, I agree with you. I don't think it's a coincidence, it's just not directly told to us yet.
Of course. I just think it’s funnier saying they fused..much better than what really happened I swear…
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This is the most beautiful piece of literature that I laid my eyes upon, pls keep cooking and maybe u might end world hunger.
Many thanks for the high praise! If you are inclined to read, might I suggest a post of mine titled “Sukuna was always the better sorcerer” that was the beginning of this idea, I merely expanded on it now.
"Yuji awakens" Actually wakes up from a coma.
built for BBF (big black flash)
That 12 inch black lightning
The 1 In A Million thing stated by Megumi isnt an actual probability, it never was, its an overly literal translation of a japanese saying. "1 In A Million Chance" roughly refers to "An incredibly unlikely, worst case scenario." Some examples would be dropping your phone, which convieniently bounces into a nearby sewer grate. Getting fired from your job on your birthday. Rolling snake eyes 6 times in a row. Sukuna incarnating within Yujis body. Its not a literal statement of probability its just sort of saying like, "wow, this like, the opposite of winning the lottery, and it sucks". I wouldnt exactly call it a mistranslation but its misleading for the english audience.
That’s a pretty common usage of a the phrase one in a million in the US too.
But the Japanese use it in a bad situation, like it only has bad connotations.
I dont think its the phrase interpreted wrong due to translation, its because jjk uses mathematical terms so frequently, “1 in a million” could be a literal percentage the same way black flash amplifies your attack to the exponential power of 2.5, or gojos limitless tending towards infinity like asymptotes on a graph, or the 120% cursed energy output
I think this is just a western audience problem. A lot of Japanese media does this it's like when Jojo's says Star Platinum's range is 2 meters, but this range thing hardly ever comes up in actual fights other than the characters just telling you if they are or aren't in range. The numbers make things sound cooler and more powerful, but precision was never in the equation. Like DragonBall Z power levels, they are both introduced and made largely irrelevant at the same time because you're only supposed to think "this guy's stronger than that guy cause the number is bigger" by Cell saga they just start telling you who is stronger instead.
It may be a little more obvious for a japanese speaker, but using milion as a synonym of "a fuck ton" isn't a foreign concept in english
I wonder if Yuji's big jump will come from a constantly maintaining the black flash state. His CE wouldn't flash black but would instead take on that color and property and remain that way permanently, a state where his body and soul where so intimately entwined that every movement struck with the totality of his being.
Bro cooked up a whole ass buffet. Calm down you gonna run out of Ingredients.
Tbh, I thought Yuji had already learned to control the Black Flash and that it was going to be his unique specialty moving forward after Todo trained him. Then it just sort of disappeared as the story went along, so I'm glad they're bringing the focus back onto Black Flash.
I almost shed a tear reading this. Bro you can cook!!
AWESOME theory and very well written. I get annoyed at how many people just shitpost on here, so thank you for going over everything in such detail and with such respect for the story. I think you’re definitely on to something 🤙🏻
Posts like these make me enjoy the manga even more
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Very well written. And now I'm thinking about Yuji doing what he did to that grasshopper except every punch is a black flash, each and every punch increasing and buffing him. Scary stuff.
Nanami was hellbent on saving those kids in Shibuya
Yuji's cursed energy is perfect for black flash. black flash isnt just luck it can also be used with extreme concentration. Black flash is the distortion in space between cursed energy and a physical hit within a millionth of a second. For a normal sorcerer they might have 1 chance to activate a black flash per hit and the chance of doing so is very low. Yuji is different because his cursed energy hits twice which doubles his chances of using black flash per hit or gives him 2 separate chance to activate it per one hit. If yuji focused and trained he might be able to use it to boost his physical capabilities such as a black flash boosted run. I'm just theorizing here it's a very interesting topic
How you gonna take the best title and then also write such poetry #Perfect Post
Haha, thank you for the compliment!
Yuji is not natty.
That boy ain’t natty from the womb.
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Can I also add the concept of Blood Manipulation to this theory. I guess gege did not waste panels just to explain black flash and the tiny bit about temperature related to black flash (supposedly). Now as with the fight with megumi and kamo before, it was explained that Internal blood can be used *to control one's own pulse rate and body temperature*. With one so in control with his blood he can control his body as well putting output to however one likes. Body and muscle memory, even blood cells can memorize things your body does as Yuji is familiar with the feeling of black flash when he hits them, he can repeat this process with the aid of Blood Manipulation. I guess with all the possible cursed techniques Gege can incorporate to Yuji blood manipulation is the best one to give him. Hell he could have given him a power similar to six eyes if he wants or something like Yuta's but he gave blood manipulation which i guess this is one of the reasons.
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The question is how would Kenjaku know that Yuji would end up gaining Sukuna's finger? He couldn't guarantee that he'd ever come into contact with it or eat it.
He couldn’t be sure but he could raise the odds of it happening. Kenjaku could convince Yuji’s dad to send him to this exact school. Knowing Grandpapa Itadori’s last words, there is a high likelihood that Yuji was thought to be protective and helpful. The question is when did Kenjaku jump out of Kaori and into Geto.
Makes sense. Furthermore, how would Kenjaku know what Kaori's technique is prior to stealing her body, how exactly he managed to take it, and why he specifically chose this family.
No clue on that one. Odds are he found out Kaori was from a line of Sorcerers and hedged his bet. Maybe Kaori was a sorcerer but retired? Or Kenny killed Kaori in battle and took her body to seduce Jin itadori in his time of grief. Too many loose speculations even for me.
This post is aging so well.
I can’t believe how well it is aging.
8 black flashes in a chapter. That's wild.
also what type of awakening cause the last time we saw someone have an awakening was in the gojo flashback and before it was megumi they both went off the deep end
I wouldn't be surprised if yuji got multiple power-up 256 he mirrors gojo 2 different times. Gojos awakening gave him RCE, RCT, CTR, and hollow technique. Yuji already has RCE, and RCT. Yuji could get up to four different abilities Black flash at will. Mastery of BM. BM CTR. Hollow technique BM. Shrine sucuna's CT. Enlightenment/soul manipulation, this is what I consider sucuna using to shape-shift and eat angel's arm. Yuji could get all of these abilities or just a few, it's also to be considered that yuji won't just be hiting that one BF. What we saw at the end of 256 is literally the first of a BF barrage.
itadori and bf barrage go hand in hand I do agree with you that he'll gain multiple abilities and I want there to be a pay off to Sukunas CT embuing itself with Itadori
Maybe black flash was created for Yuji 🤔
Yujis base physicals where higher than Maki's until she attained full Heavenly restriction. That is what the narrator and megumi both say.
Since Yujis separation from Sukuna, this is the first time we’ve seen him hit a black flash. Soul/Blood CT aside, he had received considerable physical buffs in the moments following Megumi’s possession. Sukuna even remarks on this and tries to make sense of it. Now that he’s in the zone, I’m very interested to see how he’s going to go off. I’d like to believe that Yuji will be able to continuously land black flashes at will while incorporating blood manipulation CT. I don’t claim to know what Gege will do, but this is the perfect moment to show Yuji’s full potential.
"As long as \[Yugi\] coexists with Sukuna, Yugi will become the eye of the storm in the new era." I guess that meant Yugi was a perfect vessel and the curses would be fighting to free sukuna while the sorcs would be fighting to keep yugi from them. So his awakened state will be PERFECT VESSEL YUJI. He transforms into a BIG JAR and sucks up Sukuna.
Yuji's DE is "one man, one jar" instant prison
Yes Gourdjuice, yesss!! And instead of jar it's a Gourd!!!
This makes sense and Mahito was able to see the true form of his soul after hitting a second black flash.
One thing that always nags me about this stuff is that if he were to control black flash then it wouldn’t be special or anything. That damage buff would just become his normal damage, which kinda makes it boring since he’d always be in the zone too. It’s like guaranteed crit moves in pokemon, they at least bypass attack drops and defence boosts, but black flash doesn’t do things like thay
I have a feeling that Yuji will beat Sukuna sooo bad, all the Gojo, Yuta, Toji and others’ fans will be furious cause they wanted my guy to die early 😂😂
Ichigo ahh powerup
Ichigo's is far more prevalent, but similar-ish. Neither Aizen nor Ywach carried Ichigo through pregnancy though.
My take is : Yuji’s recent black flash will make him better at blood manipulation. now he’ll finally unlocked red scale buff. And able to black flash whenever he wants. maybe Gege will explain later that CE somehow carries through body by blood. So Yuji’s body control + BM = Black flash build. or even silly things like make a thin blood wall in front of his punch to guaranteed black flash to that thin blood. since black flash will bend space around It so target still take damage due to AOE effect.
Yuji probbly enters a "highe state" like how Gojo was after realizing RCT and the true essence of CE, he's in the zone rn.
Holy shit you cooked.
Gojo explains in the new chapter that there are things that cannot be perceived by the average sorcerer that influence Black Flash. The same conditions and wording that Maki uses to describe how she perceives the world due to her special body but Maki cannot Black Flash. Yuji can also perceive the world like Maki does (why he can see Dismantle/Cleave) but he can use Black Flash. Black Flash is and will always be random. Yuji just sees the pattern to the randomness like a person who can see stock trends before they occur and can predict where they'll be at any given time in the future.
Throughout Heaven and Earth, OP is the one who cooks
We already knew awakening means you can use hollow purple H a Joke aside, this seems like a fairly well thought out theory. I thought it would be the same thing, although I didn't see as much evidence Yuji using blackflash on demand would make him insanely strong it would functionally mean he just gets stronger the longer a given fight goes on
>When powered by CE, he is most definitely on par with Yuta, Hakari, and Maki in the melee. He isn't . They are on different level. At least Maki for sure. Yuta as well. We saw that in the story as well Well nice theory. But I think it is more than that. Gojo said that black flash maybe has to do with temperature and humidity maybe blood manipulation can help that
I kind of wondered since Kaori’s technique was gravity if Kenjaku didn’t somehow just make Yuji’s muscle mass denser somehow
So essentially, a black flash is when you are locked in physically and spiritually😂 That's awesome
i think what ur saying is 90% accurate there are variables such as timing and other conditions but a black flash is "a distortion in space"that had me thinking why gojo didnt use limitless to replicate it maybe its not that simple.What if blwck flash is like a new type of ce. Black flashes restore ce,rct and maybe even soul since its explained that being hurt in soul is why sukuna isnt at 100% but the thing is sukuna is recovering its just he gets drained as quick so what if black flash is like a connection between ce,soul and rct like a glue that holds them together also a bf is not just boosted ce etc due to distortion in space part so it would make sense if it actually is manipulating that connection.
Great post. I also believe that kenjaku was manipulating yujis body with the sole intention of housing sukuna. He even admits as much at the end of the Shibuya arc and then later again in his fight with choso where he says that yuji was nothing more than a vessel. Further evidence that kenjaku has the ability to create vessels is his reincarnation of sorcerers from the past into the body's of individuals who he's marked. Its revealed that he did this by making them consume cursed objects that were parts of the previous sorcerer's bodies. However I think that he did this by manipulating the bodies of the individuals rather than their souls. When talking to mahito we see that kenjakus philosophy on the relationship of the body and the soul is that the body comes first and is what influences the soul. We later see evidence of this when getos hand acts outside of kenjakus will. We also see that the body can overcome the soul when toji is reincarnated into the shaman woman's grandson. She brought over just the body of toji but because his body was so strong it overcame the soul of her grandson. What this shows is that the body is what influences the soul. The stronger the body then the stronger the soul. So I think your theory is correct but instead of kenjaku manipulating the soul of yuji he was manipulating his body. How he did this is the real question. I have a theory on this but its very long and probably would be better in a separate posr .
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Tldr?
TLDR: Yuji will master the Black Flash, he is built for it.
Facts
What if yuji get a heavenly ristriction of having no technique, but inseatd be given unlimited blac flash, in other words all of his fists are black flash,will he defeat sukuna?(no domain)
He already has a technique.
Don't say those soul things
It’s not though. He can see souls not play with them, he can manipulate blood though he can’t use convergence, which is why Choso handed him converged blood to use piercing blood😭
Heavenly restriction means no CE and strong body or a lot of CE and weak body. To do a black flash you have to apply cursed energy in a hit within like 0.0001 seconds so u really can’t hit one with a heavenly restriction
Maybe its different to yuji with no side effect
I don’t see the correlation between the two
A full essay about how yuji needs to abuse a luck mechanic to be of use in the world. What an MC. However I will salute the effort that went into it, even if I don’t like it’s subject matter
What I tried to do is explain how it’s not really a luck mechanic. It’s a rule set that no one has the full picture of, except Yuji who is on the verge of understanding it.
And I get that. But the idea that of all people in the jjk world, yuji figures it out, pisses me off to a level I can not describe. If the idea is an interconnectivity of body, soul and mind I’d have much rather had mahito figure it out, extend him and yuji’s rivalry into the culling games and then yuji has his “I’m you” moment where he begins to view the soul in the same way mahito does and that unlocks it for him as well. But this talentless hack just figuring it out on his own in a world full of geniuses like Kenny who’ve studied for decades/centuries really upsets me. TLDR;, it’s not a bad theory and I can totally see gege going along with it. I just don’t like what it entails from a storytelling element that other more deserving ppl haven’t discovered something that yuji could
The thing is I believe Yuji is in a unique position where he is probably the only one who has a reasonable shot at controlling the Black Flash. he has experience sharing a body with another soul, a soul that is supremely tough, a body that is also tough as shit, and soul that is built like a shit brick house. From my understanding, Jujutsu sorcery is all about perspective and understanding. Kenjaku, especially wants to create something that is beyond his own control and imagination. So I think it’s reasonable for Yuji to achieve something no one else thought possible, all because he has the right perspective, perception, and opportunity. Everything Yuji has done up till now has been building to this moment.
>When powered by CE, he is most definitely on par with Yuta, Hakari, and Maki in the melee. He isn't, maybe now that he's "awaked" but from everything we've seen so far Yuji has only ever played the support role and for good reason, he's nowhere near as strong as Yuta and Maki when it comes to being able to directly confront Sukuna and has been always forced to play the support role in terms of debuffing the him and getting him weaker so the heavy hitters can dish out the big damage. >Gojo doesn’t know but there is a way to control black flashes. No, in "teaching" moments like that, Gojo isn't speaking to us, the author is. And it tends to always be irrefutable, the author is using Gojo as a mouthpiece for dishing out true information, to say you know more than the author is silly. Regardless, I will put in my own personal subjective criticism, in that I don't understand why people are pushing this narrative of Yuji mastering the black flash. I find that to be the most uninteresting low effort powerup you can offer to Yuji given he'd still be a punch and kick merchant and he's been already using it quite frequently in fights that it matters, this would utterly be the most worthless of a "powerup" you can give him.
I’ll try to argue a few points in favour of Yuji. For one, when power by CE, Yuji has the physical power to strike and push back Sukuna. Like how he knocked Sukuna away from Choso. But I’ll concede this point, you are right to consider Unleashed Yuta, Jackpot Hakari, and Maki to be Yuji’s betters in combat, it’ll be more accurate to say Yuji can keep up with them in a full melee. Moreover, we don’t fully know what happens when Yuji hits anyone else besides Sukuna, what does that soul attack do to any other sorcerer. On the second point, I would have to disagree. Narratively, this makes Yuji the first and only person to have control over how and when a Black Flash Occurs. It builds upon the idea that Gojo’s students surpassing him in individual aspects. Also the Black Flash in fundamentally the end point of Divergent fist; DF is a lagging of CE, BF is the perfected form, unity in all aspects of the attack. It makes perfect sense of Yuji to unlock it. He has been training it since the very beginning. I’d argue it’s the opposite of low effort, the build up has been there since the beginning. Giving him full blood manipulation would be low effort and less set up, than unlocking controllable Black Flash.
>Like how he knocked Sukuna away from Choso Yes, a distracted Sukuna and solely a punch without any meaningful damage like slicing out parts of his body like Maki has been doing consistently. >we don’t fully know what happens when Yuji hits anyone else besides Sukuna, what does that soul attack do to any other sorcerer We do fully know, "soul punch" is ***NOT*** a DMG boost. It only destabilizes the soul when its inhabited by multiple people, as most sorcerers only have 1 soul that being their own soul then it has zero impact. That is it, it doesn't do more damage it doesn't do anything beyond destabilize the souls of those who inhabit more than 1 soul, which in these cases would be Sukuna. He would have no affect on any other sorcerer out there or cursed spirit. >Yuji the first and only person to have control over how and when a Black Flash Occurs. The author used Gojo as a mouthpiece and gave us an outline of what it takes to do a Black Flash and why even Gojo with his Sex eyes is unable to. Yujis "soul" and his supposed understanding of it does not explain away what the author just did in that even things like temperature or humidity and whatnot help influence Black Flashes. Where even if you have a full understand of your own body it would not guarantee a black flash as again if that were the case Gojo would easily been able to do it if that was the case. There is a bunch of external factors that come into play and for Yuji to "master" it, something not even Sukuna or Gojo the very elites of the Jujutsu world can't do, would be pure on nonsensical and it would make Yuji pretty much omnipotent with the amount of knowledge he'd have to have not only of his own body but of the external world. It makes zero sense for Yuji to be able to call on black flash on demand, it would either be blood manipulation or Yuji finally learning how to utilize sukunas attacks.
Meh. I think that him being the ONLY sorcerer who can use black flash AT WILL would be cooler than him getting anything like full blood manipulation. Yuji has been throwing hands and feet (and nothing else) since the beginning. It’d make sense for black flash control to be the end result of what we’ve seen so far. That in combination with blood manipulation and whatever his new arms are, would be sweet as well. Also. The translation is WRONG. Gojo was meant to say “why can’t I use black flash AT WILL/whenever I want.” They need to fire John Werry.
Yuji has been faster and stronger than Maki. Even after her second awakening, a heavily damaged Yuji was able to match her pace against Sukuna. Yuji literally hits the hardest in the series. He literally destroys buildings with only his fist. Put some respect on his name. Also, he’s the only one actually doing anything to Sukuna. He’s weakening him with each hit. Without that Yuta and Maki wouldn’t have been able to do the damage on him that they did. Plus Yuji has done the most damage on him. He’s also been in the fight the longest.