Background
The King of Curses. A thousand years ago, Sukuna was a jujutsu sorcerer so powerful that other sorcerers of the golden age couldn't defeat him even working together. His cursed technique,
ShrineShrineSukuna's innate technique creates invisible slashing attacks that cut at the molecular level. Two variants: Cleave, which reads the target's durability and cursed energy to calibra..., produces invisible slashing attacks that cut at the molecular level, and his domain expansion,
Malevolent ShrineMalevolent ShrineDomain ExpansionEvery other domain in jujutsu uses a barrier. Sukuna's doesn't. Malevolent Shrine manifests as an open Buddhist shrine that projects its guaranteed-hit effect across 200 meters of ..., is the only known domain that operates without a barrier, projecting guaranteed-hit slashes across 200 meters of open space.
Sukuna views other beings as fundamentally beneath him. Not with malice, but with the detached certainty of someone who has never encountered an equal. He acknowledges strength when he sees it, telling Jogo to 'stand proud' before killing him, but acknowledgment and mercy are different things.
After incarnating through Yuji's body and eventually taking over
Megumi FushiguroMegumi FushiguroGrade 2 · HumanA first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High who inherited the Ten Shadows Technique from the Zenin clan: the same technique whose user once fought a Six Eyes Limitless user to mutua... as his vessel, Sukuna became the final threat that every sorcerer in the modern era had to unite against.
Key events
- Episode 1Revelation
Sukuna's finger is a cursed object that grants immense power. Yuji swallows one and becomes Sukuna's vessel
- Episode 5DeathFearsome Womb
Sukuna takes over and rips out Yuji's heart. Yuji dies but Sukuna revives him.
- Episode 5Technique
Domain Expansion, Malevolent Shrine, First Domain Expansion shown in the series, used to massacre curses
- Episode 5Revelation
Sukuna can take over Yuji's body and is far more powerful than any cursed spirit
- Episode 40DeathShibuya Incident
Special-grade cursed spirit of volcanoes/fire. Incinerated by Sukuna who acknowledged his strength.
- Episode 40DeathShibuya Incident
Special-grade cursed spirit. Killed off-screen by Sukuna's flames.
- Episode 40BattleShibuya
Sukuna obliterates Jogo and acknowledges his strength
- Episode 40BattleShibuya
Sukuna destroys Mahoraga using his fire technique, devastating Shibuya
- Episode 40Revelation
Sukuna has a fire-based technique in addition to his cutting ability, destroys Shibuya with Malevolent Shrine
Known techniques
Technique
Malevolent Shrine
伏魔御廚子
Every other domain in jujutsu uses a barrier. Sukuna's doesn't. Malevolent Shrine manifests as an open Buddhist shrine that projects its guaranteed-hit effect across 200 meters of real, open space. No enclosed area, no trapped targets, just a 200-meter radius of continuous, unavoidable slashing. Within range, two attacks operate nonstop. Cleave adjusts its cutting power to each target's durability, ensuring optimal damage. Dismantle delivers a flat-rate slash. Everything in the radius, people, buildings, the ground itself, gets cut relentlessly from every angle. The barrierless design is a binding vow: Sukuna trades the defensive advantages of a closed domain for a dramatically strengthened sure-hit effect. This makes Malevolent Shrine impossible to counter through domain collision: the standard defense against domains, because there's no barrier to clash against. You either have your own domain strong enough to overpower the sure-hit, or you run.
Technique
Spiderweb
蜘蛛の糸
Sukuna weaves multiple Dismantle slashes into an interconnected grid pattern that covers a wide area. Instead of targeting one point, the slashes spread across escape routes and defensive positions like a net. Breaking through one slash exposes you to the three behind it. The technique trades concentrated cutting power for area coverage, each individual slash is weaker than a focused Cleave, but when the entire space in front of you is filled with intersecting cuts, it doesn't matter that each one is individually survivable.
Cursed Tool
Hiten
飛天
One of the tools Sukuna carried in the Heian period, named for flight. Nobody living has seen it used and its whereabouts are not recorded.
Cursed Tool
Kamutoke
神武解
Chapter 117
A Heian-era tool of Sukuna's that discharges lightning, carried alongside Hiten. He recreates it later from memory, which says something about what he can do without a body.
Fights
Hajime Kashimo vs. Sukuna
Shinjuku Showdown
Against Hajime Kashimo
Kashimo waited four hundred years for this and gets it immediately after the Gojo fight, against an opponent already warmed up. He is delighted about it.
Satoru Gojo vs Ryomen Sukuna
Shinjuku Showdown
Against Satoru Gojo
The strongest sorcerer of this era against the strongest in history, in an abandoned Shinjuku on Christmas Eve, with the future of jujutsu attached to the result.
Record
Episode appearances
27 episodes
- Episode 1Ryomen Sukuna
- Episode 2For Myself
- Episode 3Girl of Steel
- Episode 4Fearsome Womb
- Episode 5Fearsome Womb, Part 2
- Episode 6After the Rain
- Episode 7Assault
- Episode 11Narrow-Minded
- Episode 12To You Someday
- Episode 13Tomorrow
- Episode 14Kyoto Sister School Goodwill Event - Team Battle, Part 0
- Episode 20Nonstandard
- Episode 21Jujutsu Koshien
- Episode 23The Origin of Obedience, Part 2
- Episode 24Accomplices
- Episode 34Pandemonium
- Episode 39Fluctuations, Part 2
- Episode 40Thunderclap
- Episode 41Thunderclap, Part 2
- Episode 44Right and Wrong, Part 3
- Episode 45Transformation
- Episode 46Transformation, Part 2
- Episode 47The Shibuya Incident - Gate Closed
- Episode 48Execution
- Episode 49One More Time
- Episode 50About the Culling Game
- Episode 56Tokyo No. 1 Colony, Part 3
