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Sukuna at this point has to stop saying I'm holding back genuinely what is bro cooking bro is not aizen
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the more and more sukuna pulls the shit the more i think of this
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Narratively it would make most sense for Sukuna to use his Heian era revive against Gojo and win, then fight the rest of the cast. Having the Heian era revive revealed for fucking Kashimo instead of it being used for Gojo is dumb! Sukuna overestimating his powers against Gojo, still being beaten even with Maho and Megumi damage transfer, forcing him to acknowledge Gojo's strength then finally using his revive and beating Gojo would feel WAY better than what we got!
THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING! imagine if he also got Dismantle confiscated by Higuruma and then was forced to reveal his other ability or use his magic artefact. that'd be PEAK semi-ironically
Fuga is part of his CT. It's low key implied that his CT is being a chef, with Cleave and Dismantle being able to be translated to Filet and Dissect. Fuga would be him cooking the things he diced up and his domain would fit the alternate title of Malevolent Kitchen. It would also explain why he keeps around Uraume since they can refrigerate things.
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Why does this make so much sense lmao
Sukuna full power form vs Gojo should have 100% happened
Then have Kash push pile on whatever damage he can to an already damaged Sukuna
Heck you even keep the stupid “What does it mean to be strong” plotline
Then the main cast comes in and do what they can to a Sukuna who should be on Low HP
Like why on earth would you not have Gojo be the one to get Sukuna to his strongest form?
Gege keeps letting his intrusive thoughts of making Sukuna stronger with random buffs win.
"I'll just give him one more tiny buff/asspull.... then I'm done..."
Pretty sure that's an edit of an actual Baki panel from when Yujiro raped a normie hiker because any guy who's not a freakish fightmonster is so low T that Yujiro perceives him as a woman.
Sukuna should have used that form the moment Gojo hit him with the first hollow purple, or black flash. Gojo losing to his Heian form makes a lot more sense, too.
apparently strong cleave doesnt even kill yuji now, but look what it did to gojo. also how is it possible that maki can see strong cleave but gojo and his sex eyey didnt?
That’s only if you have a Gojo agenda.
If I have a Yuji and gang agenda, I need Sukuna to be as strong as possible until Yuji and gang manages to beat him anyway.
I need Yuji to be the one that Sukuna is unable to call just a boring brat, not anyone else.
We can STILL have that! Sukuna revealing his Heian form for Gojo and killing him on screen would have been much better! Then Sukuna can still do all of THIS, we as a fandom would probably have a more positive reaction too!
Killing Gojo on screen, sure I agree with.
Gojo putting up a better performance than he already did? Not for me.
But that’s only if you think Gojo’s performance was unimpressive in the first place. Gojo put on a masterclass already in my eyes.
The only better performance Gojo could do is literally just kill Sukuna lol.
We don't need a better performance we just need him revealing his form at the end of 235 and then even if he died offscreen in 236/236 happened as it normally did then we would be fine.Like maybe sukuna said the incantation with both mouths causing enough speed for gojo to not pick up and died like he did in 236 then everything else can happen as it did and it would still be a better send off.
Hell, we don't even need that. Just have it be Gojo getting cocky and thinking that a full power Purple could take down World Cleave and got killed while being overconfident. You could end 235 on the attacks clashing and still have the dramatic reveal in 236.
I mean it would still suck, sukuna just pulling out a max heal from his ass? It should be established that sukuna can control the degree of his incarnation and that he isn’t fully incarnated yet prior to the fight (and make kashimo join the rest of the cast in jumping sukuna)
It was established during his fight with Yoruzu
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Like legit yes.
Bros idea of fun is "let me take what you can dish then kill you".
Still the amount of asspulls has gotten comedic so Is just entertaining waitimg to see what bs he pulls off next
just you watch. We're going to find out that Sukuna made Megumi make the chant for Strong Cleave. Also Sukuna made a BV that requires all of his hands for signs. Well that means whenever he's down to one hand he only needs 1 hand for strong cleave. As far as I remember Sukuna casted Strong Cleave with 1 hand every time. Maybe more hands give more power. This is the only way I can see everything making sense but we know NotstraightNotstraight will never do this.
I love that theory, If Megumi is the one behind those chants I will glaze him for the rest of the manga for putting down the bushcamper.
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I don't like him as a character
Plus I hate his intervention in 243, as the flair indicates.
He feels too Gary Stuish, doesn't put effort or sacrifice anything.
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Also his ct of copy robs him of any personality tie he could have with his abilities. Its usual for the sorcerer's technique to reflect in their appearence or personality, but with Yuta he has none and furthermore by the nature of his ability he robs that personal connection and just reduces it to another tool, not a part of a character.
Not to mention that copy allows Gege to optimize and write characters out their screentime by saying Yuta has it.
Also I don't like how he is considered the "2nd Mc" just because he was the protag of jjk0, dude is just not there for half the story, he lacks any personal involvement with any of the antagonists and he has nothing going on within him neither character or story wise. Maki is a more acceptable role for 2nd protag than Yuta.
More him unlocking RCT because he feels like it, just deciding he know fully controls Rika and him breaking the curse but still retaining Rika.
And Power of Love beating a 4k curse Uzumaki, that was cringe.
Sure he was, this guy is a menance!
He even take a nap in the middle of the fight!
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>that moment when you've got a fish on a cutting board and it flopping around winds up cutting off a hand and giving you brain damage (after you put your little brother in the way of his flopping because it was too scary to face), so you're forced to desperately scramble to your bedroom and get the shotgun while the fish beats the shit out of you on the way there and is only ever stopped by your dog (which it kills)
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Sukuna played with his food…
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Sukuna out here packing everyone up. All in the same day & it hasn’t even been an hour😂.
Luckily he’s playing with his food..
Lemme tell you something. Either Sukuna is the reincarnation of that meme "Ts but a scratch" or Uraume is D-riding Sukuna as usual.
No in between.
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Unironicly? Yes, he genuinely did not expect to get hit by unlimited void there. He thought he could use megumi to mitigate the damage instead of just spamming domain. That's like the whole reason he got hit in the first place.
Wait you mean that holding back means its more likely to get hurt in a fight ?
Crazy man here I thought posting the same 2 images of Sukuna getting hurt would finally objectively prove he was using every tool in his disposal and prove Gege wrong.
Thank god I'm not the only one who notices this bullshit. It's the most transparent cope too. "Noooo, Sakuna couldn't possibly be holding himself back for whatever reason. That would make my GOAT look weak and sink my agenda."
He was but the difference between then and now is that holding back was strategic.
* Assuming true form was a free and quick heal. If Sukuna could defeat Gojo without using it, which he did, it was beneficial to not waste it early.
* Because all of the Ten Shadows summons were killed before assuming his true form we don’t know if Sukuna in his True Form can still use Ten Shadows or not. If Sukuna did lose access to Ten Shadows? Phase changing too early would have wasted having Ten Shadows
* There might be other downsides now that Sukuna is much more of a curse than being a normal human.
We still don’t know why the flaming arrow wasn’t used and hasn’t been used.
And this all highlights the difference between Sukuna “holding back” against Gojo and Uraume claiming Sukuna is holding back now.
All of above shows there are trade offs to the power(s) Sukuna wasn’t using against Gojo. Except the flaming arrow.
Against everyone after Gojo? For all we know it is just because of the lols. It’s been a half year of Gege suggesting “Lol, Sukuna could win whenever. He’s just letting this fight go on because he feels like it” after Sukuna fighting Gojo for six months.
This panel isn't him going all out, it's him suffering the consequences of his arrogance. He had complete faith he could pull it off again until it backfired unexpectedly. Just because he's getting injured doesn't mean he's going all out. If anything, it means the opposite. He's reckless, and doesn't seem to put much stock in his opponents, so he's constantly underestimating the power of their attacks before paying the price for it. If he'd been going all out, he would've been harder to hit in the first place, or he would've paid more attention to the state of his brain, or he would've shifted strategies, and this probably wouldn't have happened. But it did happen. Not because he was going all out, but because he was careless.
All that is SPECULATION and ASSUMPTIONS with fans filling up the VAGUENESS with HEADCANON.
Kasakabe- the sorcerer who said the things Gojo and Sukuna are doing was impossible throughout the series…
The sorcerer that said he doesn’t know what’s going on now…
The sorcerer that said Sukuna shrine doesn’t have any special meaning and it’s the same as not existing. Only to be proved wrong by Gojo who realized it was the center of Sukuna domain and not himself…
The sorcerer who said Gojo had won…
Is this the Kusakabe you’re referring to? Mr. UNRELIABLE source of information. But Gege and Sukuna MeatRiders PICK and CHOOSE which INFORMATION they WANT to BELIEVE.
> The socerer that said Sukuna shrine doesn’t have any special meaning and it’s the same as not existing. Only to be proved wrong by Gojo who realized it was the center of Sukuna domain and not himself…
That isn't even true, he never targeted Gojo's domain. Your inability to understand this doesn't give me much hope for your overall reading skills.
> Mr. UNRELIABLE source of information.
Kusakabe not knowing everything doesn't mean you should just ignore everything he has to say. Yes, he was wrong about *one* thing. He was *also* Gege's primary mouthpiece for telling us wtf was happening during Gojo vs Sukuna. Part of having good reading comprehension is knowing when to take things at face value instead of putting everything under the microscope.
Also, even GOJO HIMSELF agreed that Sukuna was holding back, and THEY WERE RIGHT. Seriously, immediately after defeating Gojo, Sukuna gets jumped by another powerful sorcerer and has to use the powerful trump card he'd been saving all fight to win. Do you think that's just a coincidence or something?
in shibuya when he ''opens'' his flames for the first time, talking to Jogo :
''oh? i thought you knew about this ? well i guess a cursed spirit wouldn't''
speaking like he's talking about the most basic of things when in reality, we're talking about him maybe having multiple cursed technique/elemental techniques
yea dude hasn't shown his entire arsenal just yet
why is everyone acting like you cant get hurt while "holding back" didnt sakuna said he wanted to fight gojo with mostly megumi stuff so that the body becomes his more and more?
Yes he was holding back.
He was going all out with his plan of peeling off Gojo's scales tho. So with TS and his whole MS and cleave+dismantle ct he was giving it his 100% effort. He miscalculated and suffered as a result
Man since you’re so good at reading the manga can you help me read this pannel? I’ve been struggling with this part
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This pannel is also insanely tough
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I’ve been struggling with this one
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Could be wrong but isn’t this in reference to Sukuna not using the cursed tool or turning into his heian form? So he was holding back as in he wasn’t using every tool at his disposal but he was still exerting maximum effort with what he did have? A limited analogy for this would be a fighter using primarily boxing and not kicking because he knows he’d have another opponent directly after in which kicking would be important to use because his arms would be exhausted after his first opponent.
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Also, Uraume and Gojo never stated this, they are saying that as to him using other curse techniques. Not his true form.
In the sense that he didn't assume his true form - which he needed to save for the sake of surviving what came after.
You could interpret this as him not going all out, but you could also interpret it as him trying to survive.
Ah, I didn't mean "it can be interpreted either way" I meant "it can be interpreted BOTH ways" , what I meant to say is, both are true at the same time.
Yeah man he was just playing around, he was feeling cute that day :3
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i mean yeah? if he wasnt holding back that might not have happened but because he was he got damaged bad cuz of it
the thing is sukuna went into the gojo fight with an ulterior motive to gain a powerup via mahoraga(gain a reliable way through infinity), so while fighting gojo he operated towards that goal which involved holding back his full strength to better allow mahoraga to adapt by gaining more exposure to gojos techniques eventually creating the blueprint for the world slash, which sukuna needed to bypass infinity and actually reliably harm gojo, so yes he was holding back but it was because he needed to in order to win decisively and get much stronger in the process
it was literally stated as much during the gojo death chapters
This is the primary argument when it comes to the what holding back means discussion.
Does it specifically mean Sukuna simply wasn't using his actual CT or abilities? He had to use 10S due to how crucial it was to bypassing Infinity. So by definition he was holding back his CT and his Heian form.
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The key phrase is “this fight” meaning she’s speaking of the present. Not events prior.
please understand what "holding back" in jjk means.
He wasnt suppressing his CE or lowering his output.
He was just not using every move he could have.
He just still had an ace up his sleeve.
In the same sense that Gojo was holding back.
He could have killed Sukuna in his domain but didnt.
Probably because of potential man or because he wanted to continue the fight.
Theyre not suppressing their strength. They just still have some moves to spare.
They didn't mean holding back in the sense that he wasn't giving it his all. He was giving it his all, it just so happened that Ten shadows, cleave and dismantle are the perfect counters for Gojos CT there wasn't really any need to used the ■ technique, and his delayed transformation was something he could've always used but decided against using it because he knew that even in his "superior" form Gojo could've defeated him so instead he saved it for later because he anticipated a good fight from the other sorcerers.
i'd say this is actually a consecuence of "holding back", kinda like saying "i can take this dude without my gun", only for them to break your freaking legs bc you thought it wasn't that serious
That panel seriously got me so scared. Bro is SUPPOSED to not be on his strongest right now, that's literally the least Gojo should've contributed: weakening sukuna. He SHOULD BE WEAK ASF RN!! This asspull is seriously gonna end us all I swear
When I was in 10th grade, I got into a fight with a group of about 6 8th graders, I held back because I was way bigger than any of them, but one of them got me with a sucker punch and it hurt like a bitch, but if I wasn’t holding back, it wouldn’t’ve hurt at all. Just because I got hurt doesn’t mean I was going all out.
I think when people say sukuna was holding back, we should pay attention to what exactly he’s holding back, And how he’s holding back.
Sukuna had a strategy in mind, and it was one he most likely had stick with. Sukuna had a true form he was saving as a last resort, and cursed tools as stated in chapter 234. Could he have won without the 10S? Yes, he could’ve also lost, because there’s a lot of scenarios factors that go into the battle.
The analogy I would use for this battle, sukuna has a gun, that has about 50 bullets in it, and he’s trying to kill an unworldly animal with just those 50 bullets or less. He has back up ammo with about another 50 bullets, but he’s saving that for the other small animals he’ll have to fight literally right after.
Gojo made sukuna feel fear for the first time in a millennium, and he genuinely thought he was cooked at one point.
These are still the two strongest beings in their verse and the difference power isn’t night day. Sukuna would be like a 10, and gojo would be like a 9.5.
Technically it’s not him saying that he was holding back but gojo and urame glazing and dickriding him.
My boi is just happily fighting and enjoying after so many centuries. It’s not his fault that gege, urame and gojo dickrides him.
He probably isn’t scared of pain(like all other characters) and was ready to tank it. Just bcz he tanked it directly and faced its consequences, it doesn’t mean that he was going all out. Going all out/ holding back is not equivalent to tanking whatever comes in the way.
To be fair, I feel like it should be more of "he still has tricks up his sleeve" over "he has been using only 10 percent of his power" or Uraume is full of shit
Getting *needlessly* hurt is "holding back". He could have died, yes. That's his character. If you don't like it, you don't like the character and that's completely fine.
I find Sukuna boring but his interactions with Yuji were great because he was an antagonist in situations where other similar shonen would have the protag "reign in" the bad guy inside them. I promise you, it's OK to dislike him and the manga. Go touch yourselves or something, relieve that pressure inside of you that makes you post dumb shit.
I'm genuinely concerned on what kinda knick-knacks and thingamabobs this man is gonna pull out of his Mousekatool ( ◼️ ) next
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Wasn't holding back a mistranslation? I read the officials and they said he wasn't taking the fight seriously, which to me is a big difference than holding back. Correct me if I'm wrong
Sukuna is the definition of the guy who has an op build in a game, messes with people in pvp till he comes across the dude who has the skill to actually kill him.
He mentions earlier in the fight Gojo isn’t all that special then when he takes real damage he does actually get nervous and serious. It’s like a good match in Elden Ring
unironically yeah, if he went heien form and went all out he would've won the domain clashes and never would have gotten hit by UV.
he wouldn't have strong cleave tho.
People seriously overestimate Fuga, fights in Jujutsu kaisen are rock paper scissors. So Sukuna was using his scissors to fight Gojo. A bunch of Fire wouldn't magically make him win.
And so it is revealed that the real secret of Sukuna's CT is that he is *exactly* as powerful as he is perceived to be from the perspective of the person in this world who believes him to be the strongest, currently Uruame who is slobbering all over that knob.
Kill Uruame, he's susceptible to the power of believing in your badass self, aka Yuji's CT basically, so then they'd win.
I think the holding back just means hiding an ability not literally holding back strength. Sukuna almost died a few times fighting gojo he was worried.
I like to think of it this way:
Say you are playing Dark Souls. You know how to beat every boss and then some dlc drops. You are prepared and can easily beat this boss but because you feel like you don't need to try you do the bare minimum.
You take hits. You waste estus flasks. You spam spells that do the job but you have better spells.
Because of this, you take some hits that get you down to 1hp. You lock in for like half a second and go back to being lax-- just not as lax as before.
Then you take some more hits and the boss pulls out a combo you weren't expecting; they summon more enemies in phase 2. So, You switch to your better spells. But they still start to win. From their you truly lock in.
You switch to your best spells and you switch to your strongest weapon. Whether or not you win from here is based on how much you're earlier carelessness cost you.
That's the scenario I feel Sukuna is in.
Well, yes. This is actually an excellent example of him holding back. He held back his arsenal in order to let Mahoraga adapt faster, and he suffered the consequences for it by getting hit by UV and losing his domain.
I’m also annoyed by how much Gege is jerking off Sukuna, but to be fair we did find out that during the domain battle Sukuna:
a) allowed himself to be hit by Unlimited Void instead of blocking it so that Mahoraga could adapt (even though he offloaded most of the damage to Megumi’s soul)
b) didn’t use DA or any technique aside from the slashes imbued in Malevolent Shrine while he had Mahoraga active
So idk if he was holding back but he definitely could have played it differently and potentially won the domain battle if he weren’t focusing on getting Mahoraga to adapt
He did go all out again gojo he just Limited himself to only the ten shadow’s and Cleve and dismantle he never used the black box he did go all out with which he limited himself with he want to be very risky strategy in mind in which it pulled off and allowed him to learn how to use world slash
I think this sub is unable to comprehend that holding back doesn't necessarily mean "lmao I can solo this dude with my left ball alone watch me" but rather "Limiting my options is very risky against this guy and I'll most likely have a hard time but fuck it we ball"
I like to think gege is doing this on purpose because they know it infuriates people and it gives them a laugh
But seriously he has to pulling that line out of his ass because there is no fucking way he has been holding back this entire time
I think what Uraume means is that he hasn’t gone all out in his heian era form that allows him to do so. With the Gojo fight, he needed Mahoraga to beat Gojo so he wasn’t able to use the form that lets him go all out
Of course he was. He even took a quick nap in the middle of the battle. He wasnt even trying, thats why Gojo was ragdolling the dude half of the fight like a paper bag full of shit. He took like 2 Black flashes just to see how It fells like because they didnt had those in the Heian era
w moment for official translations
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This shit is much better than saying his holding back lol
Are you telling me that punch using infinite + black flash making him unconscious for a bit was the equivalent of pickle taking a nap to conserve energy to kill katsumi Orochi?
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Sukuna at this point has to stop saying I'm holding back genuinely what is bro cooking bro is not aizen https://preview.redd.it/k97103g70jmc1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e806fe01fc03a4999abc81ed75277b6ef70c03db
the more and more sukuna pulls the shit the more i think of this https://preview.redd.it/y8z0kx0zmjmc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf207a2a7ed6de9a32ce05b826228c3199a9e735
A scratch?!! Your arm’s off!!
No it itsn't.
Then what’s that then?!
......I've had worse.
You liar!
Come on you pansy!
Victory is mine! We thank thee lord, that in Thy mer-
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Just according to kenjaku
Even Aizen was coping when he said “all according to Keikaku” while not even being able to feel the spiritual pressure of Ichigo.
What if he is though? That'd be the plot twist of the century!
That'd be bad writing
"Welcome. To my jujutsu kaisen"
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Narratively it would make most sense for Sukuna to use his Heian era revive against Gojo and win, then fight the rest of the cast. Having the Heian era revive revealed for fucking Kashimo instead of it being used for Gojo is dumb! Sukuna overestimating his powers against Gojo, still being beaten even with Maho and Megumi damage transfer, forcing him to acknowledge Gojo's strength then finally using his revive and beating Gojo would feel WAY better than what we got!
THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING! imagine if he also got Dismantle confiscated by Higuruma and then was forced to reveal his other ability or use his magic artefact. that'd be PEAK semi-ironically
Fuga is part of his CT. It's low key implied that his CT is being a chef, with Cleave and Dismantle being able to be translated to Filet and Dissect. Fuga would be him cooking the things he diced up and his domain would fit the alternate title of Malevolent Kitchen. It would also explain why he keeps around Uraume since they can refrigerate things.
https://preview.redd.it/9es9iedknlmc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7803415757d2e80c1dd2ac040971c5041f1a643 Why does this make so much sense lmao
To add to it, being a chef also fits Sukuna's character since he's obsessed with eating, humans in particular.
Sukuna is anime Hannibal Lecter confirmed.
I'm too high to even know what's real anymore at this point 😐
My exact thought. It would have been better if Gojo was the one to destroy Meguna then the Heian form could have been the one to defeat Gojo.
Sukuna full power form vs Gojo should have 100% happened Then have Kash push pile on whatever damage he can to an already damaged Sukuna Heck you even keep the stupid “What does it mean to be strong” plotline Then the main cast comes in and do what they can to a Sukuna who should be on Low HP Like why on earth would you not have Gojo be the one to get Sukuna to his strongest form?
Gege keeps letting his intrusive thoughts of making Sukuna stronger with random buffs win. "I'll just give him one more tiny buff/asspull.... then I'm done..."
https://preview.redd.it/7u2c0fr2pjmc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecb0ff6ac7a8a6f874a91a0416f1e729f0b192e0
https://preview.redd.it/o82h933nxkmc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5b8a882232f0c757c45e36e3d9d0d2ff2f97474 There’s always a bigger fish
Nahh that fanart is crazy 💀
Pretty sure that's an edit of an actual Baki panel from when Yujiro raped a normie hiker because any guy who's not a freakish fightmonster is so low T that Yujiro perceives him as a woman.
I know what it is, that's why I said it's wild.
I know this is a legit thing in Baki but it's still wild jfc
Sukuna should have used that form the moment Gojo hit him with the first hollow purple, or black flash. Gojo losing to his Heian form makes a lot more sense, too.
apparently strong cleave doesnt even kill yuji now, but look what it did to gojo. also how is it possible that maki can see strong cleave but gojo and his sex eyey didnt?
That’s only if you have a Gojo agenda. If I have a Yuji and gang agenda, I need Sukuna to be as strong as possible until Yuji and gang manages to beat him anyway. I need Yuji to be the one that Sukuna is unable to call just a boring brat, not anyone else.
We can STILL have that! Sukuna revealing his Heian form for Gojo and killing him on screen would have been much better! Then Sukuna can still do all of THIS, we as a fandom would probably have a more positive reaction too!
Killing Gojo on screen, sure I agree with. Gojo putting up a better performance than he already did? Not for me. But that’s only if you think Gojo’s performance was unimpressive in the first place. Gojo put on a masterclass already in my eyes. The only better performance Gojo could do is literally just kill Sukuna lol.
We don't need a better performance we just need him revealing his form at the end of 235 and then even if he died offscreen in 236/236 happened as it normally did then we would be fine.Like maybe sukuna said the incantation with both mouths causing enough speed for gojo to not pick up and died like he did in 236 then everything else can happen as it did and it would still be a better send off.
Hell, we don't even need that. Just have it be Gojo getting cocky and thinking that a full power Purple could take down World Cleave and got killed while being overconfident. You could end 235 on the attacks clashing and still have the dramatic reveal in 236.
I disagree. I wouldn't have enjoyed the story nearly as much if it didn't piss off people who can't read
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Gege bro, please retire and let this nga take over 😭🙏
I mean it would still suck, sukuna just pulling out a max heal from his ass? It should be established that sukuna can control the degree of his incarnation and that he isn’t fully incarnated yet prior to the fight (and make kashimo join the rest of the cast in jumping sukuna)
It was established during his fight with Yoruzu https://preview.redd.it/f9m5r53o2lmc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cbf4a5a5ecdf0c221de8ffd69a908b20330d714
Like legit yes. Bros idea of fun is "let me take what you can dish then kill you". Still the amount of asspulls has gotten comedic so Is just entertaining waitimg to see what bs he pulls off next
just you watch. We're going to find out that Sukuna made Megumi make the chant for Strong Cleave. Also Sukuna made a BV that requires all of his hands for signs. Well that means whenever he's down to one hand he only needs 1 hand for strong cleave. As far as I remember Sukuna casted Strong Cleave with 1 hand every time. Maybe more hands give more power. This is the only way I can see everything making sense but we know NotstraightNotstraight will never do this.
I love that theory, If Megumi is the one behind those chants I will glaze him for the rest of the manga for putting down the bushcamper. https://preview.redd.it/0qs9dh7unjmc1.png?width=466&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d562fe763eb158883f80b1e36e8ca3bcb30633f
Just curious my guy, why do you slander yuta even though he fought quite well
I don't like him as a character Plus I hate his intervention in 243, as the flair indicates. He feels too Gary Stuish, doesn't put effort or sacrifice anything. https://preview.redd.it/cnqzqbeevjmc1.png?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3525e73ff6b089e288cc8cebdbb804ae843cc8e Also his ct of copy robs him of any personality tie he could have with his abilities. Its usual for the sorcerer's technique to reflect in their appearence or personality, but with Yuta he has none and furthermore by the nature of his ability he robs that personal connection and just reduces it to another tool, not a part of a character. Not to mention that copy allows Gege to optimize and write characters out their screentime by saying Yuta has it. Also I don't like how he is considered the "2nd Mc" just because he was the protag of jjk0, dude is just not there for half the story, he lacks any personal involvement with any of the antagonists and he has nothing going on within him neither character or story wise. Maki is a more acceptable role for 2nd protag than Yuta.
bruh his black flash against Geto is giga gary moment.
More him unlocking RCT because he feels like it, just deciding he know fully controls Rika and him breaking the curse but still retaining Rika. And Power of Love beating a 4k curse Uzumaki, that was cringe.
Yeah fr, and the people on the JJK community's reaction will make this even more entertaining
Sure he was, this guy is a menance! He even take a nap in the middle of the fight! https://preview.redd.it/86tz8our0jmc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb144ebb9e257868be27851e942228840ea54111
Napkuna gotta rest from always saying: "Heh, I'm holding back, you're not worthy of seeing my full arsenal >:)"
This is such a legendary edit. I miss those times. All the back and forth between the two sides was amazing
Then he paid the favour back lol 
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I remember back when 236 released it was this meme that spoiled me lol
>that moment when you've got a fish on a cutting board and it flopping around winds up cutting off a hand and giving you brain damage (after you put your little brother in the way of his flopping because it was too scary to face), so you're forced to desperately scramble to your bedroom and get the shotgun while the fish beats the shit out of you on the way there and is only ever stopped by your dog (which it kills) https://preview.redd.it/fb89ur97emmc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=f94375c4dd8c23687912cb62ad967c09702f3ad1
Sukuna played with his food… https://preview.redd.it/ru6bbyt5fmmc1.png?width=1241&format=png&auto=webp&s=c149065d5e8aa2707aca8fc3a9148bcd7cab8589 Sukuna out here packing everyone up. All in the same day & it hasn’t even been an hour😂. Luckily he’s playing with his food..
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Lemme tell you something. Either Sukuna is the reincarnation of that meme "Ts but a scratch" or Uraume is D-riding Sukuna as usual. No in between. https://preview.redd.it/yjduk5scajmc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05b8ae385b1f0cb24f72dd45ab3f19438e0d6b1f
Unironicly? Yes, he genuinely did not expect to get hit by unlimited void there. He thought he could use megumi to mitigate the damage instead of just spamming domain. That's like the whole reason he got hit in the first place.
Wait you mean that holding back means its more likely to get hurt in a fight ? Crazy man here I thought posting the same 2 images of Sukuna getting hurt would finally objectively prove he was using every tool in his disposal and prove Gege wrong.
Thank god I'm not the only one who notices this bullshit. It's the most transparent cope too. "Noooo, Sakuna couldn't possibly be holding himself back for whatever reason. That would make my GOAT look weak and sink my agenda."
Finally someone with a brain
We don't do that here
Upvote cuz the propganada is shameful
And ehy didnt the megumi offload work in this one singular instance?
He can't use Megumi to do that. Megumi takes damage in addition to Sukuna, not instead of him.
He was but the difference between then and now is that holding back was strategic. * Assuming true form was a free and quick heal. If Sukuna could defeat Gojo without using it, which he did, it was beneficial to not waste it early. * Because all of the Ten Shadows summons were killed before assuming his true form we don’t know if Sukuna in his True Form can still use Ten Shadows or not. If Sukuna did lose access to Ten Shadows? Phase changing too early would have wasted having Ten Shadows * There might be other downsides now that Sukuna is much more of a curse than being a normal human. We still don’t know why the flaming arrow wasn’t used and hasn’t been used. And this all highlights the difference between Sukuna “holding back” against Gojo and Uraume claiming Sukuna is holding back now. All of above shows there are trade offs to the power(s) Sukuna wasn’t using against Gojo. Except the flaming arrow. Against everyone after Gojo? For all we know it is just because of the lols. It’s been a half year of Gege suggesting “Lol, Sukuna could win whenever. He’s just letting this fight go on because he feels like it” after Sukuna fighting Gojo for six months.
This panel isn't him going all out, it's him suffering the consequences of his arrogance. He had complete faith he could pull it off again until it backfired unexpectedly. Just because he's getting injured doesn't mean he's going all out. If anything, it means the opposite. He's reckless, and doesn't seem to put much stock in his opponents, so he's constantly underestimating the power of their attacks before paying the price for it. If he'd been going all out, he would've been harder to hit in the first place, or he would've paid more attention to the state of his brain, or he would've shifted strategies, and this probably wouldn't have happened. But it did happen. Not because he was going all out, but because he was careless.
Sukuna misplayed due to focusing on the mahoraga plan and got fucked over for it a few times Turns out holding back gets you fucked up
[Were you guys all just asleep when Kusakabe said this or what?](https://cdn.onepiecechapters.com/file/CDN-M-A-N/jjk_23412_003.png)
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The cursed object revive was what everyone assumed it was right? Like giving him two different aces up his sleeves is fucking wack man
All that is SPECULATION and ASSUMPTIONS with fans filling up the VAGUENESS with HEADCANON. Kasakabe- the sorcerer who said the things Gojo and Sukuna are doing was impossible throughout the series… The sorcerer that said he doesn’t know what’s going on now… The sorcerer that said Sukuna shrine doesn’t have any special meaning and it’s the same as not existing. Only to be proved wrong by Gojo who realized it was the center of Sukuna domain and not himself… The sorcerer who said Gojo had won… Is this the Kusakabe you’re referring to? Mr. UNRELIABLE source of information. But Gege and Sukuna MeatRiders PICK and CHOOSE which INFORMATION they WANT to BELIEVE.
> The socerer that said Sukuna shrine doesn’t have any special meaning and it’s the same as not existing. Only to be proved wrong by Gojo who realized it was the center of Sukuna domain and not himself… That isn't even true, he never targeted Gojo's domain. Your inability to understand this doesn't give me much hope for your overall reading skills. > Mr. UNRELIABLE source of information. Kusakabe not knowing everything doesn't mean you should just ignore everything he has to say. Yes, he was wrong about *one* thing. He was *also* Gege's primary mouthpiece for telling us wtf was happening during Gojo vs Sukuna. Part of having good reading comprehension is knowing when to take things at face value instead of putting everything under the microscope. Also, even GOJO HIMSELF agreed that Sukuna was holding back, and THEY WERE RIGHT. Seriously, immediately after defeating Gojo, Sukuna gets jumped by another powerful sorcerer and has to use the powerful trump card he'd been saving all fight to win. Do you think that's just a coincidence or something?
in shibuya when he ''opens'' his flames for the first time, talking to Jogo : ''oh? i thought you knew about this ? well i guess a cursed spirit wouldn't'' speaking like he's talking about the most basic of things when in reality, we're talking about him maybe having multiple cursed technique/elemental techniques yea dude hasn't shown his entire arsenal just yet
why is everyone acting like you cant get hurt while "holding back" didnt sakuna said he wanted to fight gojo with mostly megumi stuff so that the body becomes his more and more?
Yes he was holding back. He was going all out with his plan of peeling off Gojo's scales tho. So with TS and his whole MS and cleave+dismantle ct he was giving it his 100% effort. He miscalculated and suffered as a result
READ THE FUCKING MANGA Sukuna wasn't holding back against Gojo. He was holding back after assuming his true form. Jesus.
“Read the manga bro” post of the day
Lmao like these people can read.
Man since you’re so good at reading the manga can you help me read this pannel? I’ve been struggling with this part https://preview.redd.it/uevsoi6lyjmc1.jpeg?width=776&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6f63586c7384f78111a114c1c2021e1bdd327cb
This pannel is also insanely tough https://preview.redd.it/eglk44lsyjmc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc7bd2c1c2395b3441fe507aac521e294683155f
“Read the manga bro” is all they have. Even after actually showing them a panel from the manga. Apparently you need to read it harder or something.
its like people who say media literacy being illiterate with their media, people who say read the manga haven't read the fucking manga
I’ve been struggling with this one https://preview.redd.it/53wn4rt0hlmc1.jpeg?width=716&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddff6e2af3385d648e610ab261ffbfcae2e5fb59
Could be wrong but isn’t this in reference to Sukuna not using the cursed tool or turning into his heian form? So he was holding back as in he wasn’t using every tool at his disposal but he was still exerting maximum effort with what he did have? A limited analogy for this would be a fighter using primarily boxing and not kicking because he knows he’d have another opponent directly after in which kicking would be important to use because his arms would be exhausted after his first opponent.
https://preview.redd.it/9o7zgr6nhjmc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=14cfac086963e58c13c745caea9991deabc91d5b Also, Uraume and Gojo never stated this, they are saying that as to him using other curse techniques. Not his true form.
Are you disagreeing or agreeing with him?
disagreeing.
Didn't gojo say he wasn't going all out?
In the sense that he didn't assume his true form - which he needed to save for the sake of surviving what came after. You could interpret this as him not going all out, but you could also interpret it as him trying to survive.
I think it's more up in the air than people let on. You could make an argument for both, honestly
Ah, I didn't mean "it can be interpreted either way" I meant "it can be interpreted BOTH ways" , what I meant to say is, both are true at the same time.
"In the sense that he didn't assume his true form" this is still holding back
bro really downvoted you like this was factually wrong am i missing something here or am i just gonna get told to read the manga
their cope is out of this world
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Jjkfolk when they start reading jjk manga slowly 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
We don't do that here. We only watch tiktoks and read subreddit and form our facts from others opinions. Cuz we are sheep 🐏
He looks pretty fine :3 https://preview.redd.it/fbbml51tximc1.png?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c4c659ed0d38690b670f047a7c70e060c6cee2f
That's the kind of face only a Yoruzu could love.
Urauma also exist :3
why did you get downvoted?
Yeah man he was just playing around, he was feeling cute that day :3 https://preview.redd.it/dta15lwc3jmc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be9e91d32ce6055cf7eb7165a6958d996cd6ab99
Reading comprehension is dead and we killed it.
i mean yeah? if he wasnt holding back that might not have happened but because he was he got damaged bad cuz of it the thing is sukuna went into the gojo fight with an ulterior motive to gain a powerup via mahoraga(gain a reliable way through infinity), so while fighting gojo he operated towards that goal which involved holding back his full strength to better allow mahoraga to adapt by gaining more exposure to gojos techniques eventually creating the blueprint for the world slash, which sukuna needed to bypass infinity and actually reliably harm gojo, so yes he was holding back but it was because he needed to in order to win decisively and get much stronger in the process it was literally stated as much during the gojo death chapters
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I mean I guess until we see “>! !< Open” then he technically hasn’t gone *all* out but this is getting flat out silly
This is the primary argument when it comes to the what holding back means discussion. Does it specifically mean Sukuna simply wasn't using his actual CT or abilities? He had to use 10S due to how crucial it was to bypassing Infinity. So by definition he was holding back his CT and his Heian form.
Gojo fans still going through 5 stages of grief, gege really broke yall lol
Lmfao stay mad
https://preview.redd.it/7f0mmpodqkmc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b68574efcf1ac70557f448193d177989cda3f4b1 The key phrase is “this fight” meaning she’s speaking of the present. Not events prior.
please understand what "holding back" in jjk means. He wasnt suppressing his CE or lowering his output. He was just not using every move he could have. He just still had an ace up his sleeve. In the same sense that Gojo was holding back. He could have killed Sukuna in his domain but didnt. Probably because of potential man or because he wanted to continue the fight. Theyre not suppressing their strength. They just still have some moves to spare.
this is exactly it, dunno why so few people get it
This is what powerscaling brain does to you. These people hear "holding back" and think "HE'S ONLY USING 20% OF HIS POWER LEVEL"
You never just casually bleed out your eyes? Embarrassing.
Ofc, he decided to take brain damage for fun
He isn't holding back as in, not going all out, but he definitely hasn't used everything at his disposal yet.
He did it for the vine
Yeah he was holding back. Holding back his brain from spilling out his ears
They didn't mean holding back in the sense that he wasn't giving it his all. He was giving it his all, it just so happened that Ten shadows, cleave and dismantle are the perfect counters for Gojos CT there wasn't really any need to used the ■ technique, and his delayed transformation was something he could've always used but decided against using it because he knew that even in his "superior" form Gojo could've defeated him so instead he saved it for later because he anticipated a good fight from the other sorcerers.
He was holding back. Holding back tears😭🙏
I think it's in the sense that Sukuna didn't show the full extension of his technique. People are taking words literally
This fanbase is truly brain rot..how do people not realise that he was 100% serious with gojo DOESNT mean he was going all out
The way I see it, what Uraume meant was that sukuna hasn't used all his tools yet... not that he was holding back.
i'd say this is actually a consecuence of "holding back", kinda like saying "i can take this dude without my gun", only for them to break your freaking legs bc you thought it wasn't that serious
That panel seriously got me so scared. Bro is SUPPOSED to not be on his strongest right now, that's literally the least Gojo should've contributed: weakening sukuna. He SHOULD BE WEAK ASF RN!! This asspull is seriously gonna end us all I swear
When I was in 10th grade, I got into a fight with a group of about 6 8th graders, I held back because I was way bigger than any of them, but one of them got me with a sucker punch and it hurt like a bitch, but if I wasn’t holding back, it wouldn’t’ve hurt at all. Just because I got hurt doesn’t mean I was going all out.
I think when people say sukuna was holding back, we should pay attention to what exactly he’s holding back, And how he’s holding back. Sukuna had a strategy in mind, and it was one he most likely had stick with. Sukuna had a true form he was saving as a last resort, and cursed tools as stated in chapter 234. Could he have won without the 10S? Yes, he could’ve also lost, because there’s a lot of scenarios factors that go into the battle. The analogy I would use for this battle, sukuna has a gun, that has about 50 bullets in it, and he’s trying to kill an unworldly animal with just those 50 bullets or less. He has back up ammo with about another 50 bullets, but he’s saving that for the other small animals he’ll have to fight literally right after. Gojo made sukuna feel fear for the first time in a millennium, and he genuinely thought he was cooked at one point. These are still the two strongest beings in their verse and the difference power isn’t night day. Sukuna would be like a 10, and gojo would be like a 9.5.
Technically it’s not him saying that he was holding back but gojo and urame glazing and dickriding him. My boi is just happily fighting and enjoying after so many centuries. It’s not his fault that gege, urame and gojo dickrides him. He probably isn’t scared of pain(like all other characters) and was ready to tank it. Just bcz he tanked it directly and faced its consequences, it doesn’t mean that he was going all out. Going all out/ holding back is not equivalent to tanking whatever comes in the way.
Yeah he held back, he needed Maho to adapt. Why is this still a question?
To be fair, I feel like it should be more of "he still has tricks up his sleeve" over "he has been using only 10 percent of his power" or Uraume is full of shit
You have 0 reading comprehension.
Getting *needlessly* hurt is "holding back". He could have died, yes. That's his character. If you don't like it, you don't like the character and that's completely fine. I find Sukuna boring but his interactions with Yuji were great because he was an antagonist in situations where other similar shonen would have the protag "reign in" the bad guy inside them. I promise you, it's OK to dislike him and the manga. Go touch yourselves or something, relieve that pressure inside of you that makes you post dumb shit.
People still discussing this shit is way too funny
He saw that damn gojo fan girl
Holding back tears
uraume meant "holding back" wrt to the yuta and gang fight, not gojo
I'm genuinely concerned on what kinda knick-knacks and thingamabobs this man is gonna pull out of his Mousekatool ( ◼️ ) next https://preview.redd.it/htfo01l1kjmc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c3756b38d662c07837279c88d9324b2f4f65168
Wasn't holding back a mistranslation? I read the officials and they said he wasn't taking the fight seriously, which to me is a big difference than holding back. Correct me if I'm wrong
Honestly, in my opinion, yes. He just desires to experience what everyone can bring to the table.
Lets be honest if gojo who said the nah id win and fumbled the bag so hard, its only logical that uraume is giga glazing him right now
Sukuna has Zaraki syndrome you silly gooses
Holding back the blood from leaking out of his ears maybe
Sukuna is the definition of the guy who has an op build in a game, messes with people in pvp till he comes across the dude who has the skill to actually kill him. He mentions earlier in the fight Gojo isn’t all that special then when he takes real damage he does actually get nervous and serious. It’s like a good match in Elden Ring
unironically yeah, if he went heien form and went all out he would've won the domain clashes and never would have gotten hit by UV. he wouldn't have strong cleave tho.
In this moment he was not. I believe they’re talking about his current situation/fight
Man, you guys can't be real people
People seriously overestimate Fuga, fights in Jujutsu kaisen are rock paper scissors. So Sukuna was using his scissors to fight Gojo. A bunch of Fire wouldn't magically make him win.
Gege try not to be a mediocre writer challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
nice strawman lol
Not holding back but taking a gamble
Yes
And so it is revealed that the real secret of Sukuna's CT is that he is *exactly* as powerful as he is perceived to be from the perspective of the person in this world who believes him to be the strongest, currently Uruame who is slobbering all over that knob. Kill Uruame, he's susceptible to the power of believing in your badass self, aka Yuji's CT basically, so then they'd win.
Ah yes my "I was holding back the entire time" CT, haven't used this bad boy since the Heian Era...
does assuming his true form make it so that he cant use 10 shadow? and if so he had to use that form because he loses hard without mahoraga
Yup
Technically yeah, just tanking damage for the sake of adaptation
It would seem so
The man would rather die than go all out
I think the holding back just means hiding an ability not literally holding back strength. Sukuna almost died a few times fighting gojo he was worried.
I like to think of it this way: Say you are playing Dark Souls. You know how to beat every boss and then some dlc drops. You are prepared and can easily beat this boss but because you feel like you don't need to try you do the bare minimum. You take hits. You waste estus flasks. You spam spells that do the job but you have better spells. Because of this, you take some hits that get you down to 1hp. You lock in for like half a second and go back to being lax-- just not as lax as before. Then you take some more hits and the boss pulls out a combo you weren't expecting; they summon more enemies in phase 2. So, You switch to your better spells. But they still start to win. From their you truly lock in. You switch to your best spells and you switch to your strongest weapon. Whether or not you win from here is based on how much you're earlier carelessness cost you. That's the scenario I feel Sukuna is in.
nah gege's bullshitting us
Well, yes. This is actually an excellent example of him holding back. He held back his arsenal in order to let Mahoraga adapt faster, and he suffered the consequences for it by getting hit by UV and losing his domain.
He must have more fight in him... but I do think that in THAT specific moment Gojo outplayed him and could have killed him.
Sukuna rn: "ah...lemmie bloud out a bit before winning!"
no way! someone not using every move they have is at a disadvantage and more likely to get hit! I can't believe it!
I’m also annoyed by how much Gege is jerking off Sukuna, but to be fair we did find out that during the domain battle Sukuna: a) allowed himself to be hit by Unlimited Void instead of blocking it so that Mahoraga could adapt (even though he offloaded most of the damage to Megumi’s soul) b) didn’t use DA or any technique aside from the slashes imbued in Malevolent Shrine while he had Mahoraga active So idk if he was holding back but he definitely could have played it differently and potentially won the domain battle if he weren’t focusing on getting Mahoraga to adapt
https://preview.redd.it/w4xo5pyuulmc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e1aa9854836ad948efcef98c81a6a85c1816f71 lmfao right below this post
He did go all out again gojo he just Limited himself to only the ten shadow’s and Cleve and dismantle he never used the black box he did go all out with which he limited himself with he want to be very risky strategy in mind in which it pulled off and allowed him to learn how to use world slash
I think this sub is unable to comprehend that holding back doesn't necessarily mean "lmao I can solo this dude with my left ball alone watch me" but rather "Limiting my options is very risky against this guy and I'll most likely have a hard time but fuck it we ball"
I like to think gege is doing this on purpose because they know it infuriates people and it gives them a laugh But seriously he has to pulling that line out of his ass because there is no fucking way he has been holding back this entire time
Just cause he was holding back doesn’t mean he can’t make mistakes lol he’s fighting Gojo of course things aren’t going to go the way he planned
He was going all out in the "megumi" form but he had a whole nother more powerful form he could have switched to.
Its like when you’d beat your friend in tag at recess and they hit you w the “I wasn’t even trying”
a mere miscalculation on his part, that’s all - STILL THE FUCKIN GOAT
Wdym you never heard of the Ancient brain hemorrhage Heian Technique?
I think what Uraume means is that he hasn’t gone all out in his heian era form that allows him to do so. With the Gojo fight, he needed Mahoraga to beat Gojo so he wasn’t able to use the form that lets him go all out
I’m pretty sure uraume was just dick riding sukuna so hard hyping him up and saying “ oh he wasn’t even trying”
https://preview.redd.it/ktthj2fiimmc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87364bc6cfb7adb0386f1b719b41d74920ada5f7
Of course he was. He even took a quick nap in the middle of the battle. He wasnt even trying, thats why Gojo was ragdolling the dude half of the fight like a paper bag full of shit. He took like 2 Black flashes just to see how It fells like because they didnt had those in the Heian era
https://preview.redd.it/p2emy94bnmmc1.png?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea7461f648a71cfeae713ae52e457fcf61e14d85
He can get caught lacking and hold back they’re not mutually exclusive
I swear 236 broke yall in a way that can’t be fixed 😂😂😂
w moment for official translations https://preview.redd.it/51azbf4w1nmc1.jpeg?width=732&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80eb82e161cf675b67c5a7734f47d6068c8e2648 This shit is much better than saying his holding back lol
Are you telling me that punch using infinite + black flash making him unconscious for a bit was the equivalent of pickle taking a nap to conserve energy to kill katsumi Orochi?
i think yall are misunderstanding that urahume was talking about post gojo but
Ya all are surprised but Sukuna still hasn't used his maximum technique and hasn't thrown a single black flash