Jujutsu Kaisen: The Definitive Guide to Understand Curses for Everyone Still Confused After Season 2 (2024)

Jujutsu Kaisen fans still need a better grasp over the basic concepts of the Jujutsu sorcery.

Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 was a stepping stone into the world of Jujutsu, but the season was a preview of how cruel and gruesome can Jujutsu be. The upcoming season won’t be a preview anymore and enter the bloody nature of Jujutsu, where the Cursed Spirits and the Jujutsu sorcerers will hunt each other to save themselves in the Culling Games.

While Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 has already been announced, there seems to be a certain faction of people who are still yet to get a proper grasp on a few basic things. The most basic to learn about in Gege Akutami’s magnum opus is the meaning of Cursed Energy and how it leads to several other powerful abilities. So, let us see a few abilities from Jujutsu Kaisen to get accustomed to the anime.

6. Cursed Energy

Cursed Energy in Jujutsu Kaisen is similar to Dragon Ball’s Chi and Naruto Shippuden’s Chakra. While the latter two from formed by manifesting the user’s life force, Cursed Energy follows a slightly different method. People suffer from all kinds of positive and negative emotions. When negative emotions like sadness, grief, and anger pile up, they become the foundation of Cursed Energy.

Producing excessive Cursed Energy can lead a person to see Cursed Spirits around them, which are like a pure form of negative emotions. People who can channel their Cursed Energy Jujutsu are known as Jujutsu sorcerers.

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5. Domain Expansion

Domain Expansion is similar to that of Genjutsu in Naruto Shippuden. It is the advanced form of one’s Jujutsu sorcery. The Jujutsu sorcerer uses his innate domain, a manifestation of the sorcerer’s mental landscape, with which they are born, to form a barrier. The barrier is fused with their innate ability. The Domain Expansion is an improved form of the innate technique that guarantees the user’s blows to land on the opponent. The only way to defeat the Domain Expansion is to break it from the outside or overpower the domain from the inside.

4. Sukuna’s Fingers

Ryomen Sukuna is the antagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen and is known as the King of Curses. He lived during the Golden Age of Jujutsu, which prevailed 1000 years ago. He was known as the most evil being, and the other sorcerers tried to finish him off. But they all fell one after another in front of his power. Even after his death, he did not fully die.

His power was split into twenty indestructible fingers like the Horcrux in Harry Potter. Sukuna was alive through all ages until Yuji Itadori ate them and fused them with his body. The fingers became Cursed Objects and one of the most evil things in Jujutsu history. Eating all twenty of them will fully resurrect Ryomen Sukuna.

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3. Reversed Cursed Technique

The Reversed Cursed Technique is one of the most useful yet one of the most difficult techniques to master in Jujutsu Kaisen. Only a handful of sorcerers and Cursed Spirits have been able to use that technique. While Cursed Energy uses negative energy, the Reversed Cursed Technique uses positive energy.

It is achieved by taking two sources of Cursed Energy and turning it into a positive energy. In simple words, a minus and a minus make a plus. The reversed Cursed Technique is mainly used to heal bodies. While the Cursed Technique is manifested in the stomach, the Reversed Cursed Technique is manifested in the brain.

2. Idle Transfiguration

Idle Transfiguration is one of the most hated techniques in Jujutsu Kaisen since it belongs to Mahito. The fandom hates Mahito to their core for killing fan-favorite characters like Nanami Kento and Nobara Kugisaki. His innate technique, Idle Transfiguration, allows him to alter the shape of the souls and thus transfigure the bodies. To activate his technique, he needs to touch the person. It can also be used to help people with deformed bodies, like that of Mechamaru.

1. Cursed Tools/Weapons

Cursed Tools/Weapons are similar to the Chakra Blade in Naruto Shippuden. A ninja can infuse their Chakra within the blades and make it an extension of their Chakra. The blades will have the same properties as the ninja’s Charka. While Chakra Blades fuse with the Chakra upon the user’s Will, Cursed Tools/Weapons have Cursed Energy infused within them. They are like an extension of the Jujutsu sorcerer.

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If the user wants to infuse more Cursed Energy into it, they can do it. But Cursed Tools will infuse Cursed Energy. These weapons are mainly used to exorcise the Cursed Spirits. Different weapons have different abilities. Toji Fushiguro’s Inverted Spear of Heaven can nullify cursed techniques upon contact.