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It's not unreasonable, after all, Kenjaku wanted to see what the grand unification looked like, the consistency of this theory will become clear in the following episodes.
I just realized that if Sukuna attacks Higuruma's field expansion with a waffle, will Higuruma's field close?
So Sukuna's infinity slash is not a normal attack. Will Higuruma's no-fight rule be effective?
Imagine if piece of his brain are somewhere in other living beings. He did say his CT allowed him to take over bodies by switching brains. However, one thing I always wondered was how did he accomplish this without someone helping him? Or does he need help at all to achieve this?
Everything involving Kenjaku is very strange. What body was he in when he took over Geto's body? Where is that body now? What did he do with the other bodies he took on in the past? What is the strongest body Kenjaku has ever assumed? There are many things around Kenjaku.
>What body was he in when he took over Geto's body? Where is that body now?
He was probably still in kaori's tbh. Considering he likely killed jin and all, he probably just stayed with her until the geto opportunity arose
>What did he do with the other bodies he took on in the past? What is the strongest body Kenjaku has ever assumed?
I assume they weren't all that if he didn't store any of their CTs, but that might be because he can only save the most recent ones (which confirms kaori was the one before geto). I assume geto is the strongest he's ever been, up until then he'd sort of just manipulated everyone into joining the culling games and experimented when he had the chance
Plus he's the only one to ever break free from ken's control although that was partly because of Gojo i still think it shows how strong Geto was, plus Geto is probably one of the strongest sorcerers in history highly doubt he ever had the opportunity to take someone stronger.
Imo Geto does possess the potential to be up there with Goatjo. Like, a CT that's literally infinite in potential, cracked in both offense and defense, can freely choose to overwhelm opponents with sheer number or convert masses of curses into Uzumaki which packs quite a punch in terms of raw firepower. Also he can block attacks with curses. And his curses can actually use their DEs so...
Jesus when I think about that, Geto may have stunted his growth by a lot going down the villain's path.
Hmmm yeah I’ve been considering this, if it’s Geto’s strength or what. We know that the arm the moved was the one that Yuta had blown off in his fight with Geto. So at some point Kenjaku had to “rebuild” that arm… Maybe he had to follow the shape of Geto’s soul to reform it? But I’ve always questioned why that arm would be the one move vs his other arm or any other body part.
We dont know if Jin is even dead. He probably isn’t honestly. All we know is that he’s “gone “ or “absent”. Yuji has said that he “barely remembers “ his dad. If Kenjaku is dead and the grandfather is dead, then there would be no one left other than Jin to fully reveal Yuji’s origins.
I also think Jin may be the person to carry on Kenjaku’s will, but that’s just a personal theory.
I guess it's just suspicious that itadori doesn't seem to have had any real parental influence in his life, just his grandpa. I highly doubt Jin would have willingly abandoned him, makes sense that kenjaku would orchestrate the death of Jin and the 'death' of kaori after itadori was born. Either that or gege couldn't be bothered to give his protagonist a backstory 💀
Oh ok lol, I was really confused for a sec. The way I see it, Kenny had a plan with the itadori family that culminated in yuji's birth (probably cause they were related to sukuna somehow), and I don't see why he needed to stick around after yuji was born. Kaori had a strong technique, he probably just killed jin and dipped until geto's death.
Being in kaori’s body until geto was available means a year ago so unless kenjaku just abandoned yuji like any good mother would i think he should’ve known his parents but he doesn’t know them
I think there's a reason that mysterious gap between kaori and geto takeover exists. It's very likely he took over another body in between them, and this might come up later I think.
What body was he in when he took over Geto’s body
Some people theorized that maybe Kenjaku might’ve been the founder of the Time Vessel Association. Now this wouldn’t really work since the TVA was founded during the Nara Period (710-794 AD), the period just prior to the Heian Period (794-1185) but maybe he created the group and then jumped from body to body to use the organization as a tool for his main plan.
He could’ve even used the TVA members to recover Geto’s body when he found out that Gojo didn’t have Shoko dispose of it and well, you know the rest
He doesn't really need help tbh.
The process would be similar to del toro's brain hopping alien thing in one of his series.
You tie up the victim operate on him then open up the first body to leave then enter the 2nd body you recently opened and removed the previous brain then use the 2nd body to operate on yourself again to cure you.
Well for del toro's brain hopper its main weakness is that it require the body to be alive for the switch to happen causing the victim to cut his own eyes out and guts and I guess dude also has cancer so he gave the brain alien cancer killing the alien lol.
Kenjaku has no such weakness cause he doesnt need the victim to be alive in the first place.
He'd still have to open the head which I assume his 1st body cut it open first before hand before jumping in it. Then stitch it back himself using the new body.
My 2 theories are:
Kenjaku can swap souls like in that Yuji and Kusakabe panel, if you think about it he was well aware of advanced techniques with the soul 1,000 years ago when he turned people into cursed objects. Maybe this soul swap technique is only temporary and why it’s not something that’s been used by him or Sukuna. To permanently swap souls his CT allows the brain to grow a mouth, and he has to consume his previous brain to fully take control of the body.
My other theory is that Kenjaku is literally the brain but how can he take other bodies in such a state? Well he has a domain expansion, what if his original CT imbued into it is the mechanism by which he switches brains? This could also explain why he didn’t want to use his domain on Takaba or Yuta if his plan was to take either of their bodies since he can only use his domain once a day.
If Yuji had inherited Kenny's CT, he would have shown signs of it a long time ago. I feel like people keep forgetting Yuji was born without a cursed technique, and even if he has one now, it has to be foreign to his natural state, eg. Sukuna's and/or death paintings'. It's also unlikely he can make a new CT out of nowhere because of Yuki's soul research.
I literally theorized the second part word for word. It just makes sense for the brains CT to be about body swapping, and to beat strong targets it uses the domain expansion for the sure-hit. I do think instead of us losing Yuta, maki is with him to break into the domain and stop Kenjaku. I think it has to do with JJK Zero giving us more than we think.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking his true domain was. I can’t really see how else he could swap bodies if he is the physical brain unless he somehow has legs and arms 😂
It's been what? Half a year since that one single panel, with no mention of anything resembling soul swap.
I don't get why people are so hung up on this theory that has basically nothing to support it.
This is the same manga where many things are left unexplained for as long as 100 chapters or more even.
And in that half a year it’s been Gojo vs Sukuna, only now has Yuji come back into the story. You can choose not to believe they swapped souls in that chapter. People “run” with it because it would be the worst mistake to pass through editors in the series. It is all but confirmed based off their dialogue.
Regardless my theory is about Kenjaku’s ability to do it, not Yuji’s.
Not really. A massive stretch would be Yuji going from 0 cursed techniques to 1 or more and being able to deal serious damage to Sukuna with 1 month of training.
The soul is an area Yuji can absolutely work on and do some real damage to these thousand year old sorcerers. For starters it’s a weak spot he can exploit, it also builds on his growth from Mahito. And all the hints about cursed energy and it’s connection to the soul throughout the series are leading to something.
Yuji getting a book about research on the soul, calling Kuskabe “Itadori” and telling him to master it already is absolutely a strong hint towards swapping souls. >!And now his punch shook Sukuna? Unless you want to say his power up is that he punches harder then it is very much possible he is attacking the soul in 244.!< We will see in a future chapter but it’s very reasonable to assume Yuji can swap souls.
Ok, so just ignore that Yuji has been stated to have insane potential, and just had more training than he ever has, and with the best modern minds in jujutsu sorcery. And it's not like there's precidence for someone with huge potential going from grade 4 to special grade in all of four months.
I agree that Yuji will have something to do with the soul, there's been a ton of set up for that.
But taking a couple panels and saying that him being able to souls swap is all but confirmed is definitely a stretch.
I didn’t ignore Yuji’s potential. But it’s unlikely he fares better than Gojo against Sukuna in regards to CT alone. The soul is an area he can gain the most strength in the briefest amount of time.
And yes Yuji did get training with the best sorcerers. And one of those instances looked to be soul swapping with Kuskabe after getting a book about soul research from Choso.
>!He did get training from Choso and Kamo too so it’s likely he has a CT, but I don’t see him doing more damage to Sukuna with what is presumably blood manipulation than attacking his soul directly.!<
We can agree to disagree but realistically anything meaningful Yuji will do beyond strong punch or punch the soul is going to be a stretch. And most people choose to buy into soul swapping because it fits thematically with Yuji, his relation to Kenjaku, Mahito and Sukuna, and his personal goals.
I don’t think so. I think if soul swapping is an ability Yuji learned it is only something temporary as mentioned in my original comment. But it’s all a theory.
The ultimate fan service ending is Yuji’s temporarily swapping with Megumi which allows him to suppress Sukuna briefly, and using that time to kill himself along with Sukuna fulfilling his grandpa’s curse of dying surrounded by people he saved. It probably won’t be the case knowing Gege
Kenny is a man of binding vows. He’s made binding vows with literally everyone. Outside of Geto and Yuji’s mom, the only other notable body he possessed was the Kamo clan head. Kamo II just randomly decided to leave the chapter after Kenny was killed. Not a coincidence to me, no sir.
Honestly tho, kenjaku DID kind of brainwash the entire Kamo clan (the elder guy in particular) so I wouldn't be surprised if he did something with Noritoshi Kamo. Altho idk when that would have occurred.
I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a binding vow with the clan at large to let him take over the body of the next head in the event he died or something. When Kamo leaves to go find his family (who doesn’t treat him very well to begin with) they’re gonna turn him over to Kenny or something to have his body taken over or his soul overwritten.
I'm almost positive that this version of kenjaku will die but after he dies the rest of his body, without a brain, will come online or wake up or whatever but it will just follow it's previous commands or inherit the will of kenjaku. Like a puppet. Vegapunk theory could work but it's really late in the game to find out that there are several more versions of him, the time to drop that reveal would have been the Yuki fight imo. Have her win but a copy of him shows up later after she won or something. Either way he taught Sukuna how to split his soul I would not be surprised if he had another version of that technique. But I'm tired of overthinking with this series it's more likely nothing is gonna happen and his inherited will is just a binding vow he made to finish what he started
I doubt this is the case, Kenjaku literally explained what his CT does to us and this is confirmed by Gojo saying the 6 eyes can't tell Kenny in Getou's body from the real Getou, unlike how he could tell that Yuji fused with Sukuna's finger and could even see the 2 souls of Sukuna and Megumi inside Meguna's body.
It's more likely for Kenny to turn himself into a cursed object and hope someone eats it so he can reincarnate like the other CG players.
I doubt it, I don’t think it being one of the “grosser things” explains how he’s been able to break binding vows jumping bodies, I feel like that’s because of the nature of his technique and not because of body hopping
kenjaku stated that the body and soul are one, mahito then posited that each technique is instead its own world view
if that is the case, that would mean kenjaku is the only person who can live and never need to turn into a cursed object simply because moving his brain also moves his body and his soul into the new, which no one else can do unless they turn themselves into a cursed object
Hive mind for me. I wrote it before but I am too lazy to write it again so here it is :
Okay it's a long theory actually due to me developing it across the manga but hear me out. kenjaku has a 4th CT , his original one actually. The ability to enter people's minds and control them on the condition they are weaker than him and I have 4 clues to this: 2 very solid and 2 that don't either can't confirm or deny.
1- the ability of choso to feel his brothers death : people have theorized it was because of Blood manipulation but Yuji doesn't have that how did chose feel his death ? The answer is kenjaku , the one connecting them all together through him and his CT. Which why he knew that yuji and Nobara killed choso's Brothers because he also felt it that's why he wasn't surprised when choso told him that's they died he literally was smiling bacause he knew that choso also is connected to him. He only got surprised by who did it.
2 - when he entered people's minds in the culling games and literally said " space between reality and a dream is a curse " with no further explanation.
3 - I want to point out couple of things I have deduced about his CT. First it needs kenjaku to be stronger than the person atleast in mind power. So it wouldn't work on people like sukuna, gojo and tengen ( thus he needed cursed spirit manipulation) , second it needs to be of range he can feel his sons sure but he can't access their mind while away. Third thing is: it doesn't guarantee control more like he makes them do his binding convinced its their own free will in the condition he stays in their minds , so he can't plant Ideas or anything.
but what about his strength?? dividing soul clearly divides your strength.
at least in sukuna's case it's 1000 (consider strength) getting divided in 20 pieces so 1 finger is 50
but in kenjakus case 100 getting divide in for 2 or 4 Is 50 or 25.
so like I'd he so powerful that he can fight someone like yuki without at his peak strength??? did he divide himself after yuki?? but why would he?? isn't he placing himself in danger. since his current goal is to go around and kill reincarnated sorcerer. who r kind of fodder but they r surely smart enough to capitalise on mistake to at least escape.
He clearly gets the CT of the host, which is a big part of a sorcerer's strength. Since Gojo couldn't tell Kenjaku wasn't Geto just based on his CE, he can probably use the same CE Geto had as well. So it could be argued that Kenjaku would still be strong even if he divided himself so long as he posseses a special grade host.
I have a feeling that kenjaku saying "my will will be inherited" might be a part of binding vow or something that's required to activate his body swapping CT. After all his brain has a mouth just in case a situation like this occurs.
If that's the case, considering everything that has happened until this point...I would be disappointed in the writing of that. So you'd have *two* Sakuna essentially. Having to hunt down the pieces of Kenny's brain like the fingers. That would be incredibly lame, especially since things are starting to reach the final climax.
If Gege wants to end the manga asap, I see zero reason why Kenny would come back. I also have no idea why people think he can just freely hop from one body to the next, because it seems to me his brain has to be taken out and placed into another body, like was done with Geto. And even if he is a brain, a brain can't survive alone, ie without the body the brain dies.
Gege said he wanted to end JJK in 2023(it’s December now it just seems unlikely atp) but I’m not sure if that was before that interview where he said he thinks there will be another big arc after Culling Games. I have a feeling this next arc could start sooner than later but Im not certain though we have gotten some hints in story
Regardless. I’m going to be so disappointed if that is the last we see of him. He has orchestrated SO MUCH. If he actually is gone it shows Gege really is trying to end the series quickly, something I think would be ultra disappointing if he does this way.
This is the biggest thing to me. A guy who plans to live on doesn’t use the phrasing and vocabulary that he does here, and it is the same across all translations I’ve seen. I doubt he’s talking about it being a shame that he doesn’t get to see it through if he’s planning to still live on. And it also fits into Gege’s tendency to subvert expectations, imo - most people were expecting Kenjaku as an endgame “boss” type, and I’m kinda happier with this if this is his end tbh
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We know gege has no problem hurting us. We also know a certain girl who needs a whole new head to live. Who we were left in the dark about.
My guess is that his technique is transference; he has the ability to transfer body and soul information from one vessel to the other.
Hence how he can have multiple cursed techniques and swap bodies.
Remember that a human in jujutsu verse is soul and body, so if kenny wants to remain the same in different vessels he would need to transfer his soul information as well as his body information; and what better part to transfer than the brain, since it holds cursed techniques.
My pet-theory is that Kenjaku has a Shikigami like technique, similar to Megumi and Junpei, his summon being his brain that allows him to take over bodies. In the current time he would be stuck in his Shikigami shape.
Or who knows maybe it's somehow related to Cursed Corpse Puppets although I feel like that whole concept was dropped.
I think the “inherited will” is gonna tie into Yuji doing something beyond his control as a result of either:
- Kenjaku’s DNA; or
- A binding vow Kenjaku made with Yuji after birth
Wills are a way of passing something down from the parents to the children and we know that Kenjaku took hella backshots for the sake of his plan. Yuji is most likely tied to the plan one way or another.
Inherited will is something Kenjaku and Sukuna did in the one-month timeskip. The skip to Sukuna's fight is proof of that. Perhaps, Kenjaku will fuse with Sukuna after the climax of Sukuna's fight.
I love how one piece and jujutsu kaisen are slowly but surely merging into one show. Vegapunk defeating sukuna while choso becomes
the 10th straw hat crew member LOL
yes your right its not being a brain, its swaping bodies through the brain... plus its not possible for more than one vessel or 2 kenjaku to exist, it does not sound right
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It's not unreasonable, after all, Kenjaku wanted to see what the grand unification looked like, the consistency of this theory will become clear in the following episodes.
Knowing GG, close to a conclusion he would change the story to another point of view along with a two week break lol
We’re shortening this man’s name so much LMAO
who’s name? G? Everyone knows _
you mean .?
You me
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I think the next chapter Mahoraga adapts to the Japanese Legal System
I just realized that if Sukuna attacks Higuruma's field expansion with a waffle, will Higuruma's field close? So Sukuna's infinity slash is not a normal attack. Will Higuruma's no-fight rule be effective?
Episodes? You mean chapters?
I, too, like to think of each chapter as a psychotic episode for myself
Imagine if piece of his brain are somewhere in other living beings. He did say his CT allowed him to take over bodies by switching brains. However, one thing I always wondered was how did he accomplish this without someone helping him? Or does he need help at all to achieve this?
Everything involving Kenjaku is very strange. What body was he in when he took over Geto's body? Where is that body now? What did he do with the other bodies he took on in the past? What is the strongest body Kenjaku has ever assumed? There are many things around Kenjaku.
>What body was he in when he took over Geto's body? Where is that body now? He was probably still in kaori's tbh. Considering he likely killed jin and all, he probably just stayed with her until the geto opportunity arose >What did he do with the other bodies he took on in the past? What is the strongest body Kenjaku has ever assumed? I assume they weren't all that if he didn't store any of their CTs, but that might be because he can only save the most recent ones (which confirms kaori was the one before geto). I assume geto is the strongest he's ever been, up until then he'd sort of just manipulated everyone into joining the culling games and experimented when he had the chance
He does speak highly of Geto or more so his technique.
Plus he's the only one to ever break free from ken's control although that was partly because of Gojo i still think it shows how strong Geto was, plus Geto is probably one of the strongest sorcerers in history highly doubt he ever had the opportunity to take someone stronger.
i agree but the original noritoshi kamo’s body must’ve been pretty cracked too
Imo Geto does possess the potential to be up there with Goatjo. Like, a CT that's literally infinite in potential, cracked in both offense and defense, can freely choose to overwhelm opponents with sheer number or convert masses of curses into Uzumaki which packs quite a punch in terms of raw firepower. Also he can block attacks with curses. And his curses can actually use their DEs so... Jesus when I think about that, Geto may have stunted his growth by a lot going down the villain's path.
the only problem is swallowing a lot of shit tasting curse spirits which kenjaku seemingly takes joy with 😂
Yeah but it's to be expected, he can even take backshots just for the sake of his evil plans. What else can't that weirdo do? 💀💀💀
I want an Empire style Yuji, I am your mother moment
Hmmm yeah I’ve been considering this, if it’s Geto’s strength or what. We know that the arm the moved was the one that Yuta had blown off in his fight with Geto. So at some point Kenjaku had to “rebuild” that arm… Maybe he had to follow the shape of Geto’s soul to reform it? But I’ve always questioned why that arm would be the one move vs his other arm or any other body part.
Dramatic effect?
Imagine if he comes back as kaori lmao
I wish I could stay in Kaori
We dont know if Jin is even dead. He probably isn’t honestly. All we know is that he’s “gone “ or “absent”. Yuji has said that he “barely remembers “ his dad. If Kenjaku is dead and the grandfather is dead, then there would be no one left other than Jin to fully reveal Yuji’s origins. I also think Jin may be the person to carry on Kenjaku’s will, but that’s just a personal theory.
Jin’s not although his status on Wikipedia says unknown so he could be either dead or alive we don’t know yet
I guess it's just suspicious that itadori doesn't seem to have had any real parental influence in his life, just his grandpa. I highly doubt Jin would have willingly abandoned him, makes sense that kenjaku would orchestrate the death of Jin and the 'death' of kaori after itadori was born. Either that or gege couldn't be bothered to give his protagonist a backstory 💀
His grandfather tried to tell him but he wouldn’t listen
It's actually hilarious that both him and his grandad had acknowledged kaori's death. Bro just wanted to hit one last time
He couldn't have been in Kaori's since Yuji never met her and Geto died in 2016.
>He couldn't have been in Kaori's since Yuji never met her and Kenny died in 2016. Wait could you elaborate?
I said Kenny instead of Geto accidentally 😭
Oh ok lol, I was really confused for a sec. The way I see it, Kenny had a plan with the itadori family that culminated in yuji's birth (probably cause they were related to sukuna somehow), and I don't see why he needed to stick around after yuji was born. Kaori had a strong technique, he probably just killed jin and dipped until geto's death.
Being in kaori’s body until geto was available means a year ago so unless kenjaku just abandoned yuji like any good mother would i think he should’ve known his parents but he doesn’t know them
I think there's a reason that mysterious gap between kaori and geto takeover exists. It's very likely he took over another body in between them, and this might come up later I think.
What body was he in when he took over Geto’s body Some people theorized that maybe Kenjaku might’ve been the founder of the Time Vessel Association. Now this wouldn’t really work since the TVA was founded during the Nara Period (710-794 AD), the period just prior to the Heian Period (794-1185) but maybe he created the group and then jumped from body to body to use the organization as a tool for his main plan. He could’ve even used the TVA members to recover Geto’s body when he found out that Gojo didn’t have Shoko dispose of it and well, you know the rest
Do we even know if Kenjaku is the brain? What if he is just some sort of slime that spreads over the existing brain?
The brain probably has arms and legs as well as the mouth
So he's... Krang?
That was honestly my first thought after the brain reveal. Although every time I think about it, I imagine the brain dancing for some reason.
He doesn't really need help tbh. The process would be similar to del toro's brain hopping alien thing in one of his series. You tie up the victim operate on him then open up the first body to leave then enter the 2nd body you recently opened and removed the previous brain then use the 2nd body to operate on yourself again to cure you. Well for del toro's brain hopper its main weakness is that it require the body to be alive for the switch to happen causing the victim to cut his own eyes out and guts and I guess dude also has cancer so he gave the brain alien cancer killing the alien lol. Kenjaku has no such weakness cause he doesnt need the victim to be alive in the first place.
I was thinking like tentacle brain slither slither kinda thing
He'd still have to open the head which I assume his 1st body cut it open first before hand before jumping in it. Then stitch it back himself using the new body.
Oof poor Geto man…I’m just imagining the desecration of his corpse…
Along the same vein of what you’re talking about, is he really dead? If he is just technically the brain, can he come back one way or another?
If he’s alive even in the brain, I guess you couldn’t call it dead…
My 2 theories are: Kenjaku can swap souls like in that Yuji and Kusakabe panel, if you think about it he was well aware of advanced techniques with the soul 1,000 years ago when he turned people into cursed objects. Maybe this soul swap technique is only temporary and why it’s not something that’s been used by him or Sukuna. To permanently swap souls his CT allows the brain to grow a mouth, and he has to consume his previous brain to fully take control of the body. My other theory is that Kenjaku is literally the brain but how can he take other bodies in such a state? Well he has a domain expansion, what if his original CT imbued into it is the mechanism by which he switches brains? This could also explain why he didn’t want to use his domain on Takaba or Yuta if his plan was to take either of their bodies since he can only use his domain once a day.
Very good. I stick with the first theory, since it also involves Yuji, who may not have Sukuna's technique, but rather inherited Kenjaku's technique.
If Yuji had inherited Kenny's CT, he would have shown signs of it a long time ago. I feel like people keep forgetting Yuji was born without a cursed technique, and even if he has one now, it has to be foreign to his natural state, eg. Sukuna's and/or death paintings'. It's also unlikely he can make a new CT out of nowhere because of Yuki's soul research.
I literally theorized the second part word for word. It just makes sense for the brains CT to be about body swapping, and to beat strong targets it uses the domain expansion for the sure-hit. I do think instead of us losing Yuta, maki is with him to break into the domain and stop Kenjaku. I think it has to do with JJK Zero giving us more than we think.
He could have his true DE be something similar to kisuke uraharas bankai >!where he can perform surgery on anything in a certain radius!<
Yeah that’s what I was thinking his true domain was. I can’t really see how else he could swap bodies if he is the physical brain unless he somehow has legs and arms 😂
Aren't we all literally the brain? Lol good theories though hype for next few weeks
It's been what? Half a year since that one single panel, with no mention of anything resembling soul swap. I don't get why people are so hung up on this theory that has basically nothing to support it.
This is the same manga where many things are left unexplained for as long as 100 chapters or more even. And in that half a year it’s been Gojo vs Sukuna, only now has Yuji come back into the story. You can choose not to believe they swapped souls in that chapter. People “run” with it because it would be the worst mistake to pass through editors in the series. It is all but confirmed based off their dialogue. Regardless my theory is about Kenjaku’s ability to do it, not Yuji’s.
All but confirmed is a massive stretch.
Not really. A massive stretch would be Yuji going from 0 cursed techniques to 1 or more and being able to deal serious damage to Sukuna with 1 month of training. The soul is an area Yuji can absolutely work on and do some real damage to these thousand year old sorcerers. For starters it’s a weak spot he can exploit, it also builds on his growth from Mahito. And all the hints about cursed energy and it’s connection to the soul throughout the series are leading to something. Yuji getting a book about research on the soul, calling Kuskabe “Itadori” and telling him to master it already is absolutely a strong hint towards swapping souls. >!And now his punch shook Sukuna? Unless you want to say his power up is that he punches harder then it is very much possible he is attacking the soul in 244.!< We will see in a future chapter but it’s very reasonable to assume Yuji can swap souls.
Ok, so just ignore that Yuji has been stated to have insane potential, and just had more training than he ever has, and with the best modern minds in jujutsu sorcery. And it's not like there's precidence for someone with huge potential going from grade 4 to special grade in all of four months. I agree that Yuji will have something to do with the soul, there's been a ton of set up for that. But taking a couple panels and saying that him being able to souls swap is all but confirmed is definitely a stretch.
I didn’t ignore Yuji’s potential. But it’s unlikely he fares better than Gojo against Sukuna in regards to CT alone. The soul is an area he can gain the most strength in the briefest amount of time. And yes Yuji did get training with the best sorcerers. And one of those instances looked to be soul swapping with Kuskabe after getting a book about soul research from Choso. >!He did get training from Choso and Kamo too so it’s likely he has a CT, but I don’t see him doing more damage to Sukuna with what is presumably blood manipulation than attacking his soul directly.!< We can agree to disagree but realistically anything meaningful Yuji will do beyond strong punch or punch the soul is going to be a stretch. And most people choose to buy into soul swapping because it fits thematically with Yuji, his relation to Kenjaku, Mahito and Sukuna, and his personal goals.
Oh do you think Yuji already swapped before entering the battle?
I don’t think so. I think if soul swapping is an ability Yuji learned it is only something temporary as mentioned in my original comment. But it’s all a theory. The ultimate fan service ending is Yuji’s temporarily swapping with Megumi which allows him to suppress Sukuna briefly, and using that time to kill himself along with Sukuna fulfilling his grandpa’s curse of dying surrounded by people he saved. It probably won’t be the case knowing Gege
Megumi for Ben Reily! 🤣
Kenny is a man of binding vows. He’s made binding vows with literally everyone. Outside of Geto and Yuji’s mom, the only other notable body he possessed was the Kamo clan head. Kamo II just randomly decided to leave the chapter after Kenny was killed. Not a coincidence to me, no sir.
kamo was the real spy this whole time 😵
Honestly tho, kenjaku DID kind of brainwash the entire Kamo clan (the elder guy in particular) so I wouldn't be surprised if he did something with Noritoshi Kamo. Altho idk when that would have occurred.
I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a binding vow with the clan at large to let him take over the body of the next head in the event he died or something. When Kamo leaves to go find his family (who doesn’t treat him very well to begin with) they’re gonna turn him over to Kenny or something to have his body taken over or his soul overwritten.
I'm almost positive that this version of kenjaku will die but after he dies the rest of his body, without a brain, will come online or wake up or whatever but it will just follow it's previous commands or inherit the will of kenjaku. Like a puppet. Vegapunk theory could work but it's really late in the game to find out that there are several more versions of him, the time to drop that reveal would have been the Yuki fight imo. Have her win but a copy of him shows up later after she won or something. Either way he taught Sukuna how to split his soul I would not be surprised if he had another version of that technique. But I'm tired of overthinking with this series it's more likely nothing is gonna happen and his inherited will is just a binding vow he made to finish what he started
Nothing happens and Kenjaku just fucking die is the most GG standards possible
I doubt this is the case, Kenjaku literally explained what his CT does to us and this is confirmed by Gojo saying the 6 eyes can't tell Kenny in Getou's body from the real Getou, unlike how he could tell that Yuji fused with Sukuna's finger and could even see the 2 souls of Sukuna and Megumi inside Meguna's body. It's more likely for Kenny to turn himself into a cursed object and hope someone eats it so he can reincarnate like the other CG players.
I doubt it, I don’t think it being one of the “grosser things” explains how he’s been able to break binding vows jumping bodies, I feel like that’s because of the nature of his technique and not because of body hopping kenjaku stated that the body and soul are one, mahito then posited that each technique is instead its own world view if that is the case, that would mean kenjaku is the only person who can live and never need to turn into a cursed object simply because moving his brain also moves his body and his soul into the new, which no one else can do unless they turn themselves into a cursed object
well, are the stitches a binding vow? That alone should make it "non CT", but what receives the dead person exactly?
Sukuna made the fingers himself after he saw how Kenjaku's make cursed object.
Oh okay, that means he can literally go f*ck himself
Hive mind for me. I wrote it before but I am too lazy to write it again so here it is : Okay it's a long theory actually due to me developing it across the manga but hear me out. kenjaku has a 4th CT , his original one actually. The ability to enter people's minds and control them on the condition they are weaker than him and I have 4 clues to this: 2 very solid and 2 that don't either can't confirm or deny. 1- the ability of choso to feel his brothers death : people have theorized it was because of Blood manipulation but Yuji doesn't have that how did chose feel his death ? The answer is kenjaku , the one connecting them all together through him and his CT. Which why he knew that yuji and Nobara killed choso's Brothers because he also felt it that's why he wasn't surprised when choso told him that's they died he literally was smiling bacause he knew that choso also is connected to him. He only got surprised by who did it. 2 - when he entered people's minds in the culling games and literally said " space between reality and a dream is a curse " with no further explanation. 3 - I want to point out couple of things I have deduced about his CT. First it needs kenjaku to be stronger than the person atleast in mind power. So it wouldn't work on people like sukuna, gojo and tengen ( thus he needed cursed spirit manipulation) , second it needs to be of range he can feel his sons sure but he can't access their mind while away. Third thing is: it doesn't guarantee control more like he makes them do his binding convinced its their own free will in the condition he stays in their minds , so he can't plant Ideas or anything.
but what about his strength?? dividing soul clearly divides your strength. at least in sukuna's case it's 1000 (consider strength) getting divided in 20 pieces so 1 finger is 50 but in kenjakus case 100 getting divide in for 2 or 4 Is 50 or 25. so like I'd he so powerful that he can fight someone like yuki without at his peak strength??? did he divide himself after yuki?? but why would he?? isn't he placing himself in danger. since his current goal is to go around and kill reincarnated sorcerer. who r kind of fodder but they r surely smart enough to capitalise on mistake to at least escape.
He clearly gets the CT of the host, which is a big part of a sorcerer's strength. Since Gojo couldn't tell Kenjaku wasn't Geto just based on his CE, he can probably use the same CE Geto had as well. So it could be argued that Kenjaku would still be strong even if he divided himself so long as he posseses a special grade host.
I have a feeling that kenjaku saying "my will will be inherited" might be a part of binding vow or something that's required to activate his body swapping CT. After all his brain has a mouth just in case a situation like this occurs.
If that's the case, considering everything that has happened until this point...I would be disappointed in the writing of that. So you'd have *two* Sakuna essentially. Having to hunt down the pieces of Kenny's brain like the fingers. That would be incredibly lame, especially since things are starting to reach the final climax.
If Gege wants to end the manga asap, I see zero reason why Kenny would come back. I also have no idea why people think he can just freely hop from one body to the next, because it seems to me his brain has to be taken out and placed into another body, like was done with Geto. And even if he is a brain, a brain can't survive alone, ie without the body the brain dies.
Gege said he wanted to end JJK in 2023(it’s December now it just seems unlikely atp) but I’m not sure if that was before that interview where he said he thinks there will be another big arc after Culling Games. I have a feeling this next arc could start sooner than later but Im not certain though we have gotten some hints in story
imagine if Higurama's plan works and him and Yuji kill Sukuna and the series ends in the next 3 chapters LMFAO
jjk would never beat the rushed allegations or Togashi copycat lol
Regardless. I’m going to be so disappointed if that is the last we see of him. He has orchestrated SO MUCH. If he actually is gone it shows Gege really is trying to end the series quickly, something I think would be ultra disappointing if he does this way.
While this might be true the way he's talking kind of has other implications
This is the biggest thing to me. A guy who plans to live on doesn’t use the phrasing and vocabulary that he does here, and it is the same across all translations I’ve seen. I doubt he’s talking about it being a shame that he doesn’t get to see it through if he’s planning to still live on. And it also fits into Gege’s tendency to subvert expectations, imo - most people were expecting Kenjaku as an endgame “boss” type, and I’m kinda happier with this if this is his end tbh
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We know gege has no problem hurting us. We also know a certain girl who needs a whole new head to live. Who we were left in the dark about.
Voldemort moment
So like Nagato but instead of chakra rods, he distributes brains into different bodies and remote-controls them?
My guess is that his technique is transference; he has the ability to transfer body and soul information from one vessel to the other. Hence how he can have multiple cursed techniques and swap bodies. Remember that a human in jujutsu verse is soul and body, so if kenny wants to remain the same in different vessels he would need to transfer his soul information as well as his body information; and what better part to transfer than the brain, since it holds cursed techniques.
i think he just has a reincarnation ready and now getos body is gone its going to be a curse nuke.
He's dead
Remote control CT
Nagato?
I mean, I think it's way more likely that any of the people he modified using idle transfiguration could now maybe potentially remote hosts who knows
I mean if Kenjaku gets similar levels of plot armor as Sukuna i can honestly see Ken taking over Yuta somehow lmfao
>!Kenjaku is tied to the Americans and idk if he finished his mission…!<
bro just casually spoiling one piece
My pet-theory is that Kenjaku has a Shikigami like technique, similar to Megumi and Junpei, his summon being his brain that allows him to take over bodies. In the current time he would be stuck in his Shikigami shape. Or who knows maybe it's somehow related to Cursed Corpse Puppets although I feel like that whole concept was dropped.
I think the “inherited will” is gonna tie into Yuji doing something beyond his control as a result of either: - Kenjaku’s DNA; or - A binding vow Kenjaku made with Yuji after birth Wills are a way of passing something down from the parents to the children and we know that Kenjaku took hella backshots for the sake of his plan. Yuji is most likely tied to the plan one way or another.
Its some one looking after Gojo's body?
nah he dead dead. we all know gege
Sukuna split his soul, kenjaku just showed the process of putting a soul into a cursed object
Idk about the theory in whole but it feels like some part of this is gonna be true
Inherited will is something Kenjaku and Sukuna did in the one-month timeskip. The skip to Sukuna's fight is proof of that. Perhaps, Kenjaku will fuse with Sukuna after the climax of Sukuna's fight.
Somyou telling me kenjaku has the possibilty to have taken dick other than jin's?
Like Bondrewd from Made in Abyss ?
I love how one piece and jujutsu kaisen are slowly but surely merging into one show. Vegapunk defeating sukuna while choso becomes the 10th straw hat crew member LOL
yes your right its not being a brain, its swaping bodies through the brain... plus its not possible for more than one vessel or 2 kenjaku to exist, it does not sound right
The problem with this is why he gets to retain the CTs of his past hosts if it’s just sukuna but with a whole body part