| Best I could do is that there was a ranking system, with some characters higher and some lower, due to their amount and control of cursed energy. |
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.  |
| I think it's not essential to understand the power system. All you have to know is: - cursed energy bad, but sorcerers use it to fight bad - many sorcerers have their own technique. Don't try to understand how or why they work because some don't make sense - domain expansion and other shit exist just to let techniques do shit they aren't supposed to do Also, there's a power classification, but it's as reliable and accurate as the Mercalli scale TL,DR: Just enjoy the show and don't think too much. |
DRRAN-_-34 said: I just finished watching the whole season and I still don't understand how the power system (curse) work in this universe. Does this help you?  |
| just enjoy the cool animation and be done with it . no point thinking about power levels , they ain't explaining it |
| Bad emotions feed evil spirits with negative energy and make them powerful. Sorcerers are using that negative energy to fight evil spirits. In short - Fighting fire with fire |
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| Don’t try to understand it, just go with the flow, the anime ain’t that deep anyway |
| do you really think gege care about anything other than killing characters! lol |
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Here's a simple way to explain: |
| Negative emotions create cursed energy in the atmosphere. Some of that cursed energy is shaped into cursed spirits by negative human emotions. Some human beings can use this cursed energy, they're called sorcerers. All humans have cursed energy (with some notable exceptions) but only sorcerers can use it. There are certain things everybody that can use cursed energy can do such as enhancing their body or objects with it, creating barriers, using shikigami or landing critical hits called ''Black Flash" when they're really in the zone. Practice is required to do these things and everybody has differing proficiency. Most sorcerers have a special technique unique to them, it's called an innate technique, if cursed energy is the electricity, the sorcerer is the DVD player and their innate technique is the disk. If you put cursed energy(electricity) into the DVD player it plays what's on the disk. Some disks are unique to the individual while some are passed from parent to child. Gojo's Infinity is an example of a technique that is passed down while Nanami's technique seems to be unique to him. When sorcerers understand themselves and their technique and hit a certain level of strength and proficiency, they can perform a Domain Expansion. They take their innate technique and manifest a strengthened version of it into the real world, usually within a barrier. It grants many benefits including making attacks sure-hit and ensuring anybody inside the domain has to adhere to the rules. Domain barriers are usually weaker on the outside, although like innate techniques there is variance within domains such as some domains having no barrier or some being smaller on the outside and larger on the inside. The only way to escape a domain is to either deploy your own domain to trigger a domain battle, with special barrier techniques designed specifically for that or by damaging the user enough that they drop the domain themselves. After using a Domain Expansion it enters a cooldown period during which the sorcerer can not use it for a while and their techniques are greatly weakened, although there are ways to bypass this. There's also Domain Amplification where the user wraps themselves in their domain and negates any cursed technique they come in contact with. While doing this they can't perform Domain Expansion. A barrier is basically a wall of cursed energy that you can set rules or conditions on to make it stronger. Giving a barrier certain weaknesses can make it stronger in other aspects. For example Gojo would normally be able to destroy a barrier easily but creating a barrier that allows everyone but Gojo to pass strengthens it significantly. This idea of taking on penalties to gain strength is called a Binding Vow, some examples are Nanami only having access to I think 80% of his total cursed energy from 9 to 5 but after that when he goes into "Overtime" he gets 150% of his usual cursed energy or techniques becoming stronger if you explain them to your opponent because you're taking on the penalty of them now knowing how your technique works. Binding vows can be made with oneself or between parties and breaking the vow incurs a penalty. Usually the more strict the binding vow the more benefit it provides. Some sorcerers have the ability to create and control creatures made from cursed energy called Shikigami to aid them, for some sorcerers it is an innate technique. For example Megumi's Ten Shadows technique is an innate technique that produces shikigami, while for others their shikigami are cursed tools. Cursed tools are items imbued with cursed energy or inscribed with a cursed technique to produce certain effects. To continue the electricity and DVD analogy a cursed tool with just cursed energy is like an external battery pack while one imbued with a technique is like if you copied the contents of the DVD onto an iPod, it would play the same music if you supplied it with electricity. Nanami's blade is an example of a cursed tool with a technique imbued in it while Maki's glasses just contain cursed energy. A cursed item is an item that contains cursed energy and produces effects that are detrimental to humans, Sukuna's fingers are an example of a cursed item, if a human ingests a cursed item usually the cursed spirit contained within takes over their body erasing their consciousness completely. Some people have the ability to be vessels and either coexist with or contain the cursed spirit. Cursed energy is normally detrimental to humans, there is a way to get around this and use it to heal. It's called Reverse Curse Technique where a sorcerer reverses the polarity of cursed energy. It is very difficult to pull off so very few sorcerers are capable of using it. The efficiency of RCT drops when it leaves the body so it is more difficult to heal others with it than to heal yourself. RCT is also sometimes called Blessed Energy and as such damages cursed spirits while cursed energy heals cursed spirits. In line with reversal some techniques have a Cursed Technique:Reversal where the technique produces the opposite effect of what it usually does. An example is Gojo's Blue which normally pulls objects in space toward him and its reversal Red which pushes objects in space away from him. A Maximum Technique is the pinnacle of a sorcerer's innate technique, it is the strongest possible version of their technique they can produce. A Black Flash is like a critical hit in a game, it happens when a sorcerer enters the zone and their movement, body, mind and cursed energy flow are in sync. Nobody can perform them at will. They increase the damage of hits exponentially and put the person who landed them in a state where their understanding of cursed energy greatly increases and their cursed energy replenishes. Some sorcerers are born with something called a Heavenly Restriction. It is a binding vow placed on them by the universe where they lose one thing but gain something else in return. For example Maki has zero cursed energy but in exchange has superhuman strength, reflexes and durability. There are some other mechanics but they count as manga spoilers so I left them out, hope this helps, if you don't understand any of the concepts feel free to ask. |
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