From Past to Present: Understanding Reincarnated Sorcerers in Jujutsu Kaisen
While there are numerous mind-blowing events unfolding inside the Culling arena, to me, the most unimaginable thing is the fact that the reincarnated sorcerers exist. As a result, besides being immensely powerful, they are also very cruel creatures.
The number of innocent people and professional sorcerers alike that they have killed is in the several hundreds.
It is funny that there is no information about these reincarnated sorcerers in Jujutsu Kaisen while they are here. They were just suddenly there, right outside Culling area, unleashing destruction all through the Culling colony.
To sum it up, however, there are a few hints we can find in the series. Therefore, their origins and the roles they play in the story, this is everything you need to know about the Reincarnated Sorcerers.
What and who are Reincarnated Sorcerers?
Like Reincarnated Sorcerers, the meaning of which is reawakening former jujutsu sorcerers from the past in the present day, these are the past sorcerers who are revived in this modern world.
The Reincarnated Sorcerers agree to their reincarnation for various reasons. Others may have personal vendettas or be looking for power and influence, while others pursuit is probably more about redemption.
The brain behind this weird occurrence is unlikely, no other mortal than bloody-villain Kenjaku. He is the one who summons these powerful, bloodthirsty, and combat-crazed sorcerers to do his evil purposes.
What Drives Their Choice to Become Reincarnated Sorcerers?
In the incredibly interesting ritual to summon the dead sorcerer of the past into the modern age, amongst the things which strongly demand attention is the fact of consent. With that in mind, here are the main reasons why they gave their consent to somebody as sinister and deceitful as Kenjaku
Hungry for more battle: Sorcery was a crucial part of some people’s lives as they spent their entire life-time just to fight the sorcery wars. On the other hand, even the most powerful sorcerers were not able to avoid death. In order to fight the relentless battle after death they made an agreement with Kenjaku. Example: Hajime Kashimo and Ryu Ishigori.
To get a second life: In many cases, sorcerers were the ones who end up being enslaved, and what they had at the back of their minds is repentance and despairs. Thereby, before they died, they chose to be brought back into life by Kenjaku and be revived to have a second chance in the foreseeable future. Example: Angels, Takaba and Takako Uro are the others.
Kenjaku acts on his own twisted motivations, bringing these former characters back to life for his evil goals. This is how he utilises their abilities, knowledge, and resources into his own advantage.
The Forbidden Ritual: How Kenjaku’s Resurrect the Dead Sorcerers?
To bring to life people who’ve been dead for ages, so even for hundreds, some are even thousands, of years ago is not that hard, it’s like an easy task. Here are the stages that Kenjaku takes to accomplish the reincarnation ritual.
So, you cool with it?
The fact that one of the most critical elements of the reincarnation ritual is the consent has been presented before. Kenjaku can only bring back the jujutsu sorcerers who have explicitly given their consent to be reincarnated.
He did so by roaming around Japan for several thousand years in order to induce many strong sorcerers he encountered to his evil ritual, but only few of the sorcerers that he tried to persuade accepted his offer.
Otherwise Kenjaku would have likely resurrected tens or possibly hundreds or even thousands of past sorcerers to his Culling Game.
Turning Into Cursed Objects After Death
Subsequently, having received the confirmation from the sorcerer him self will be his upon duty to wait until the sorcerer dies. How they died, of natural causes or on the field, didn’t matter anymore; the next step was the same. Kenjaku will make the corpse of the sorcerer into a cursed object, just like how he made Sukuna’s soul into a special-grade cursed object in the form of twenty fingers. Sadly, the specific way how Kenjaku turns a sorcerer into a cursed object stays a secret.
The Ideal Vessel
Around two years ahead of the execution of the incarnation rite, Kenjaku starts to visit every part of the country in search of the perfect body for the previous sorcerer’s spirit. When he finds a suitable vessel, he will immediately put a curse on them that will put them in a state of coma.
Later, he will order them to ingest the cursed object, which is the spirit of the previous jujutsu users in an object. These are those people with no guilt and their brains will continue to be in that vegetative state until Kenjaku starts with the Reawakening ritual.
Rebirth
In the middle of his battle with Yuji Itadori, Yuki Tsukumo, and Choso, Kenjaku suddenly casts a spell that triggers the curse that he has put on numerous innocent people all around the country.
When the curse is activated the soul of the former sorcerer presently in control of the body instantly takes over and the soul of the original body is suppressed.
Through the vessel, they gain knowledge and information about modern times but they don’t lose their original qualities of the cursed energy and their own unique techniques. Now the reincarnation ritual is finished.
The Thrilling Contributions of Reincarnated Sorcerers to the Storyline
Now the old sorcerers started roaming and hunting, killing and raiding through the region. We shall slow down for a moment and focus on the role that the reawakened players of the story are playing.
The Competitors of the Culling Game
The first official role of the Reincarnated Sorcerers is to be the contestants of the Culling Game. By culling the players, Kenjaku gains the required amount of cursed energy that completes the process of Cursed Energy collection, which remains so fulfilling to him, with the highest level of cursed energy.
Unfortunately, there is not enough population of jujutsu sorcerers and spirits of curse in the present-day world. Therefore, to make it faster and more interesting, Kenjaku decided to awaken the people who have the ability to wield Cursed Energy such as Hiromi Higuruma and bring back the powerful sorcerers of the past.
Allies Uniting to Combat Sukuna
Towards the end of the Culling Game, the remaining reincarnated people swap places in their roles. Instead of fighting each other and eliminating others involved in the Culling Game, they now join forces with Yuji and his friends to try and defeat Sukuna.
Angel as well as Hajime Kashimo are two sorcerers who have been reincarnated wanting to kill Sukuna. For Hajime, he only wants to show that he is better than Sukuna. Since both parties happen to have the same objective, they decided not to continue being Kenjaku’s pawns but opted for finding ways that could make them overcome the King of Curses instead.
