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Maki Zenin’s Greatest Hits in Jujutsu Kaisen

Maki Zenin’s Greatest Hits: Eight Times She Totally Slayed in Jujutsu Kaisen

By Ashita Muzzi

June 21, 2024

By the many examples of sorcery in the story Jujutsu Kaisen we can see that it is not an easy job at all but rather it is full of different obstacles. It is twice as difficult for the sorcerers that are still young and the newbies should gather a lot of experience and practice, but they are already pushed into this harsh and unforgiving place. Despite of that, nothing can come close to the hardships people like Maki Zenin are confronted with.

Maki came into the world without being born with the cursed energy. It was also the fact that she was just merely a regular human and not a wizard as other sorcerers were. She was born into family of sorcerers so from birth she had pressure and it was impossible to satisfy their fantasies. Despite that, Maki made herself one of the best sorcerers among the youth and achieved many things that were beyond imagination, which gave her a chance to be referred to as a lucky one.

The Strong Spirit: How She Stayed Determined and Survived Through the Mess

Maki’s misfortunes began with her birth as her parents abandoned her at birth. Being not a family member of sorcerers and to being without any cursed energy was insufficient to her. Nevertheless, their clan was also the most primitive among all others.

This and the fact that she was a woman born in a clan that preferred men was the one thing that contributed to many abuses, both emotional and physical. In her eyes, she couldn’t meet the challenges her family imposed on her.

She received responses from her relatives, saying she was a no use failure case, especially her father who blamed everything on Maki, as she wasn’t fit to take over the clan. Through all these, Maki never lost sight of her goal and did not let the abuse overcome her. She kept from losing hope and never gave up.

Power of Skill Over Energy, Achieving Battle Techniques and Perfection

There is no need to mention that mentally standing straight and believing was just a bridge to the success. Maki started realizing that sorcerers were not all that bad after all and that she had to earn their respect by matching sorcerers on an equal footing with them. Beside the extensive training, Maki reached the degree of powerful fight. Not only did she acquired a powerful strategic mind that was sharper than a sword, but she could skillfully counter a wide range of curses and confront her enemies with ease.

She utilised things like cursed weapons and techniques bringing a new perspective to Otogizōshi with her own fluidity. A very essential facet of her being is the fact that she is heavenly restricted and as a result, she cannot see the curse.

Although Maki wears glasses conventionally, they are in reality a cursed device that provides her with a deficiency-compensating power and enables her to perceive curses, which is an essential skill for fighting.

Yuta’s Mentor: Turning a Sorcerer Wannabe into the Real Deal

Maki, who is not a natural mentor, still had to show a role model to the little ones. Besides her fellow sorcerers, Toge Inumaki and Panda, Maki had to teach. Maki didn’t like Yuta at first. She did not trust him and was hard in their arguments, showing her tough appearance. These behaviours, as time went on, gave Yuta a hard coming to her unusual nature.

But, this gradually changes when she and Yuta have to battle dangerous curses together. Maki begins to open up to Yuta Okkotsu about the reality of the Jujutsu world and then the situation where she sees him at work and later, she realizes his true force and his given strength, as she mentions later.

This bond later on, in the course of the friendship and their behavior, becomes a relationship of an extremely close level of friendship and trust.

The Clash with Dagon and the Enigmatic Resistance Against a Special Grade Curse

And just like all the other sorcerers, Maki’s power and hard work were investigated in Shibuya arc. Young as she was, Maki was engaged in the battle with the evil enemies that tried to kill her. Even though she was a close companion of many mighty sorcerers like Nanami Kento or Naobito Zenin, Maki still managed to showcase her potential despite getting injured by Jogo which was a real disaster.

The most evident occurrence is observed during the clash of Dagon, which can be counted as a special-grade destruction among Disaster Curses. Maki and her allies fell into the domain expansion of his grasp. However, she still could contest with Dagon and repel him, which made a small hole that Megumi used.

Reconciliation with Mai and the Art of Letting Go on Personal and Professional Development

The main problem in Maki’s life was that she had constant struggle with her twin sister, Mai zenin. Both had been born deficient in cursed energy, and this disrespected their ability to join the Zenin family.

Maki and Mai were sisters, but for totally different characteristics. Maki was more courageous, whereas Mai was more terrified. She was dependent on Maki to repel cursed spirits. On the other hand, when Mai’s sister Maki decides to abandon the clan, Mai experiences this betrayal as it is something that she finds difficult to deal with.

During all the time-lines of Jujutsu Kaisen, Maki and Mai stayed apart and were opposing each other with their grudges. Despite all the difficulties, Maki and Mai protected each other and showed their resilience when their father tried to kill both of them.

In the end, it was Mai that died in Maki’s embrace, but the two sisters were able to see eye to eye, as they both were committed to their goal to destroy the Zenin family.

Haunting Spirit of Naoya and the Terrifying Showdown with a Demon

One of the main tormentors of Maki was, of course, Naoya Zenin. A cold-hearted male sorcerer who was born into a curse but refused the help of female characters, mistreated her just because she was not born into the curse. Maki was the one who defeated him during her slaughter of the Zenin clan, but his mother was the one who gave the final strike.

After his death, as there was no cursed energy involving him, Naoya resurrected as a spirit avenging his own death in the Culling Games. As Maki and Noritoshi struggle, they come face to face with a horribly deformed Naoya who attempts to kill them. Yet, it was again only Maki, with her incomparable strength and cool sorcerer’s attitude, who was ready to fight the demon for her past, and destroy Naoya once and for all.

The Fall of a Clan and the Rise as the Ghost of Zenin

All the difficulties she had to endure and the abuse she received were from her own extended family members. At the beginning she tried to shield herself from the abuse and be an independent person not listening and reacting to their thoughtless words and behavior. However, after the appointment in Shibuya she went back to the clan as she was inspired by Toji’s actions, and switches into witnessing her sister’s soul being taken away.

The blood for the blood. Shaking, she turned the whole clan upside-down. And it brought her personal path to the end, as she killed the most of them including her parents and Naoya Zenin.

Maki did prove she can stand her ground and defeat so many fighters which only showed her power and determination.

Battle with Sukuna and Defying Death in the Face of the King of Curses

Not all Sorcerers of the Jujutsu World have powers as great as Ryomen Sukuna, the King of the Curses. The power of Sukuna has been slowly growing along the episodes and unresolved in the battle with Gojo, the seemingly most powerful sorcerer in the whole world.

And, although Maki could not manage to kill the King of Curses with her, she still could prove herself by delivering a clever attacking method, provided that she understood some of his techniques.

Along with Yuta and Yuji, Maki slows Sukuna down, this perfectly embodies her path, as she shows bravery, going against the most powerful enemy.

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Gojo’s Limitless, Infinity, and Hollow Purple Abilities

Breaking Down Gojo Satoru’s Limitless, Infinity, and Hollow Purple Abilities

By Ashita Muzzi

June 21, 2024

Gege Akutami, the talented one-eyed cyclops cat, chose some of the complex concepts about maths to be a foundation of Gojo powers. Is it breaking down too much for you!! No problem, we will try our level best to make it simpler!! And so, the question that you might be wondering is, what do Limitlessness and Infinity mean?

If you succeed to see what is beyond those ridiculous good looks of his; you will figure out that Gojo Satoru’s amazingly strong special ability “Limitless” is a little tricky to get around.

Gege Akutami, the genius cyclops one-eyed cat has devised some mathematically sophisticated ideas as the basis of Gojo’s powers. We will try to somehow simplify it or break it down for you!! So, what do you mean by “Limitless” and “Infinity”?

Jogo used to give his best trying but Gojo was always almost untouchable and had an invisible barrier that Jogo could not overcome. The indestructible shield that surrounds him, meaning that he cannot be physically nor spiritually hurt is called the Infinity by him and his opponents.

However, before we go into detail on infinity, we will need to mention the Limitless Cursed technique. In another words this makes Gojo to use Infinity.

The Idea of Limitless

Infinite (東方万年絆, Tōhō Manyoën Ibito, Limitless) is a unique cursed technique that originated from the Gojo family. By using this ability, he can bend space and time repeatedly. Similar to what Satoru tells Jogo, infinity is indeed real. He is currently just constructing it with his cursed technique.

By manipulating space on an atomic scale, Gojo is generating an endless amount of finite gap between him and his opponent. On the contrary, Satoru’s infinity is no more than a fantasy instead of an arithmetic sequence or series. The real number is absent from this equation, only the unknown that we get as an answer when we divide by zero is present. This is why its wording became synonymous with Limitless.

Infinity Can Be Mind-Boggling

Infinity is the balance of Limitless. It is not in itself a cursed technique. In contrast with the popular belief that Infinity is not the best defense, it defuses every possible attack. Notwithstanding the fact that Satoru was not facing Jogo, he was still suffering from the resistance that was happening in the back of his mind. Rather, Jogo was going slow the more it approached Satoru.

Gojou made the point on convergence and divergence to show the spirit on the change that was going on. In mathematics the division of a number will never get you zero no matter how much you do. However, this number grows smaller and smaller. The smaller it gets becomes even less each time.

Agata Terajaki also depicts a more practical example of achilles and the tortoise in her manga. Achilles and the tortoise is a timeless paradox by ancient Greek philosopher Zenon. For those of you who don’t know, this is what the logic is in Britannica but I’m going to read it for you.

Saga of the Achilles Paradox

Achilles paradox, named after the 5th-century-BCE Greek philosopher Zeno, and one of the four paradoxes described by Aristotle in book of Physics. The paradox covers a race between a fast-footed Achilles and the plodding tortoise. The two start moving at the same time, but if the tortoise is originally given a head start and continues to move ahead, it will never be caught up by Achilles who can run as fast as he wants.

According to Zeno’s argument, it is necessary for Achilles to reach the point when the tortoise started from, which by then, the tortoise would have moved to the next point even if just for a small distance, thus the cycle continues.

Ok, I’ll admit, I felt like I was rambling for a bit there. Therefore, similar to the case of Achilles and the turtle never eliminating the gap, the gap between Satoru and his rival will keep shrinking until it becomes zero, but never be zero.

How Gojo Satoru Did It?

Thus, Gojo power goes beyond the finite in between him and enemy and multiplies them into the infinite small pieces. We will go back to the case of convergence where it does not matter, no matter how near Gojo is to his enemy, he will never reach zero distance away. Through the use of his Limitless, the gojo is able to separate the space.

In short, getting closer to Satoru means being more and more slumbering. Imagine yourself at the border between two worlds, celestial and terrestrial, with nothingness before you in every direction forever. The closer they get to Satoru, the more minute space they have to travel through, which increases the time to reach their destination.

The combination of the neutral state of Limitless with his six eyes technique allows Satoru to choose to be hit by only the selected objects. He can disassemble the object into its mass, composition, and speed determining how harmful it is to him.

Secrets of the Cursed Technique Lapse Blue

Gojo Satoru is good at Limitless and at the same time is able to manipulate space effectively because he has the control over cursed energy as well as Six Eye Technique. As we described before, the Infinity is just the state of Limitless in equilibrium.

With Gojo drawing power from the cursed energy, negative spaces are generated wherever he is, which result in the attraction or magnetism. This is known as the Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue. Gojo does that by getting objects close to each other and making them drag towards one another.

The power of this attraction or the magnetism depends on the quantity of the cursed energy that Gojo supplies to his technique. However, this method is not the easiest for Gojo and he says that precise control of cursed energy is a pain.

Additionally, he cannot create a large Domain close to himself because then he may end up being affected by the backlash and not being able to control cursed energy.

However, in his fight against Toji, after experiencing a near death situation and understanding the very essence of Cursed Energy, Gojo is able to use the Cursed Technique Lapse Maximum Cursed Energy Output: Azure Glow. This way he can transfer the limited amount of space at the event and create a point of attraction at one place.

By using Limitless along with the positive reversed cursed energy, Satoru is able to create a repelling force which is the Cursed Technique Reversal: Red. He smashed it across Jogo in the war.

Bereaving Satoru of the one and the only bond, Satoru unconsciously counts the moment of departure from infinity the last drop of infinite sorrow. Satoru calls it the divergence of infinity. By powering Limitless with reversed cursed energy instead of negative cursed energy, the effects of Cursed Technique Lapse: This is again blue but reversed resulting in repelling. Basically he is making infinity, which is usually something invisible, to be as explosive as an actual force.

Realities of Hollow Purple

However, putting together the actuality of both Blue and Red forms of Limitless, Gojo produces a fictional approach called the Hollow Purple. Employment approach represents the elimination of nothingness. When we talk about the scientific side of the story, any attack that involves particles with no mass will travel at a speed faster than light. This kind of attack is really hard to get away from.

The empty and hideout purple being Satoru secret weapon. Against some opponents who have already know about Blue and Red extensions of the limitless.

According to Gege Akutami, nobody besides Satoru Gojo is able to really utilize the limitless in the whole universe of Jujutsu Kaisen. Sensei definitely is the greatest of all time! We have covered Satoru’s Domain Expansion: Infinity in the Void to be mentioned in a separate article.

How do you guys think of Gojou Satoru’s powers? Have you left with few confusions about it? Shoot the questions in the comment section!!

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Yuta’s Cursed Technique and True Mutual Love Domain Expansion
Yuta Okkotsu’s Cursed Technique and True Mutual Love Domain Expansion

By Ashita Muzzi

June 21, 2024

Jujutsu Kaisen’s complex and multilayered world, where the cursed energy prevails and clashes are taking place between the sorcerers and the cursed spirits, only a few characters are as prominent as Yuta Okkotsu. By means of his intriguing abilities and captivating past history, Yuta has made a place in the fans’ hearts in every corner of the world. In this post, we focus on the core of Yuta’s skills, especially on his powerful Cursed Technique and spectacular Domain Expansion.

And, when Yuta joined his comrades in the fight against the King of Curses, the events of the story were bound to reach higher amounts of intensity which turned out to be exactly what happened as a result of what followed. Expectations were high, and fans were all expecting him to display what kind of power he really had in JJK‚ chapter 249. Eventually, he used his Domain Expansion, named All-encompassing Unequivocal Love, also known as True and Mutual Love.

The Malevolent Entity: Rika, the Cursed Spirit

First of all, it is necessary to make clear Rika is not Yuta’s cursed technique. Riku is a soul of the cursed being which is attached to him. (He decided to stay which is connected with her while her soul becomes open.) Yuta is a distant relative of the Gojo Clan and therefore he can curse others. While he was still a little boy, his childhood friend Rika passed away at his very feet.

Being too confused to handle this shock, he cursed her without knowing that, as a result, she became a cursed spirit. After the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 manga, Yuta was finally able to let her free from the curse he had put on her.

Nevertheless, after Rika freed her soul imprisonment, the cursed spirit Rika the Queen of Curses remained thereby transferring the last trace of her will.

Ultimately, Rika’s character is nothing more than Yuta’s love personified, which he sacrificed to save her.

Yuta has more command over this version of Rika and does not need to be really emotional to do that. Nonetheless, the underlying childlike and scaring side of her past personality is still there.

She somehow frequently shows up partially and attacks to protect Yuta from anybody at least.

Rika can also act independently at a fair distance from Yuta to do different tasks. Moreover, she maintained the power she used to have.

Complete Manifestation:

Rika manifests and delivers external storage for Yuta where the latter stores the cursed energy, artifacts, or copies of techniques. Yuta can get this when he wears the ring.

A ring on his finger allows Yuta to manifest Rika fully and get hold of cursed power to substitute for his personal energy loss instead. Yuta will be able to form this connection with Rika for a five-minute interval.

Yuta Okkotsu’s Domain Expansion: All-encompassing Unequivocal Love

Yuta Okkotsu was always considered to have a Domain Expansion. Now, fans know him to be a really special grade sorcerer and for any special-grade sorcerer to not have a Domain Expansion would sound illogical. Fans knew from the very beginning that Yuta would employ the most powerful domain expansion, while another problem was that they had no chance to see him in action using this ability. In the Culling Game arc, Yuta was the one with the most focus and he fought in many great battles. Some of these battles drove him to his limits, such as fighting with both Uro and Ishigori.

To be honest, the first notable battle was the one in which Yuta had to use his domain expansion because the other two characters also possessed this ability. However, the viewers did not actually get to see the Domain Expansion that he used and how he applied it as well.

Initially, fans didn’t know what they could expect from Yuta’s Domain Expansion, but new details have been uncovered during the current fight between Him and Sukuna. To fight the King of Curses with anything less than 100% from Yuta will only lead to folly and the boy, as smart as he is, knows that he needs to give his best.

He, in particular, is all the more convinced that Sukuna has been the one to cause all the major deaths that have occurred within the past few hours and for that reason he resolves to bring everything to an end inside his own domain.

In Yuta’s domain expansion, there are many katanas at the same time, and knots that are the icon of weddings. Every time Yuta tries to untie them, the knots become even tighter, evidence of the power of love between him and Rika. This is a nice way of the author to show this and is absolutely beautiful for the fans to see.

Okkotsu’s Innate Cursed Technique: Copy

Yuta’s innate technique is copy which provides him with the power to write identified cursed techniques. That enables him to copy the cursed techniques of the other sorcerers. He can even combine several techniques into one and perform them in rapid succession, which makes it possible for him to create deadly combos.

He basically executes Cursed Techniques which are later copied into Rika memory, which later he can execute when he is connected to Rika with his ring.

Gege Akutami, the author of the series, has not disclosed any specific instructions on the conditions necessary to copy someone’s technique.

On the other hand, in chapter 180, we saw some signals where Ishigoori began to postulate that Yuta copied Uro’s technique only after Rika ate her arm.

Such a thing was strengthened when chapter 251 said that Yuta got copied by Sukuna that he ate the last and only finger that he had.

Thus our current hypothesis is that only Yuta or Rika would be able to be copied if either of them or the latter (Rika) would eat a piece of a sorcerer.

We are also of the opinion that even blood is enough for this situation, therefore Yuta is a good copier of this trait from his friends.

Yuta is not the type of sorcerer who would hurt his friends just for power, and blood seems like a pretty innocent way to gain new techniques.

Cursed techniques that Yuta currently has, as of chapter 251, are:

Inumaki Toge’s Cursed Speech

Druv Lakdawalla’s Shikigami

Uro Takako Sky Manipulation

Angel’s Jacob’s Ladder

Charles’ G Warstaff

Sukuna’s Shrine

The Inner Workings of Yuta’s Domain Expansion

The domain produces a special environment after the release. it appears to be an inconsistent or a huge number of crosses and katanas randomly lying on the ground.

The crosses are connected with ropes in knots which stand for love.

All the swords around are not for decoration, each sword carries one of the cursed techniques that Yuta has copied. Those two techniques and the secret fascination that lies inside them can only be snatched by Yuta once.

On the flip side, he doesn’t know which technique is inside a katana and it only replies when he picks it up, giving him a chance to learn its technique. In addition, Yuta can use the technique any number of times because of the infinite swords.

This domain allows the character, Yuta, to select for his sure-hit effect any of the copied techniques available at the time of the expansion of the said domain and in exchange, the technique is excluded from the pool of Katanas that the character can use.
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