Is Jujutsu Power System Any Good?

what makes a good power system flashy moves elaborate incantations the amount of decb being produced I think it's all about making sense within its own rules cuz you can preach all you want about increased blood flow elevated heart rate and frequent gasping but ain't no way that makes your equipment any harder I was talking about a sword by the way hello comrad my name is mAh come get yourself a beverage and sit down with me we got negative energy to evaluate let's start by giving this spectacular spectacle a brief rundown what exactly is jiujitsu and what's with all these crazy terms seriously innate curse technique three words just to say superpower thank God for quirks from Hiroshi and then from Tashi I'm kidding but in order to explain it I will use simpler terms and there might be a spoiler or two you've been warned cursed energy is a secondary resource that everyone has very few can benefit from and even fewer can actually use they're called Sorcerers people who employ cursed energy to at minimum see supernatural beings and at maximum organize a nationwide Battle Royale it's very diverse in its applications yet it's mostly used to deliver indiscriminate punishment to people you don't like makes sense there are only a handful of sourcerers you can't really integrate it into the life of the general populace so what else are you supposed to do other than bonking each other with these extracurricular Powers anyway there are two ways to utilize cursed energy a general approach such as empower power ing one's body creating barriers and Blasting it or through a personal ability called innate curse technique which is a unique sometimes hereditary pre-installed driver in your brain that allows you to access a very particular set of skills you are born with it and kind of stuck to be honest because good luck making Boogie Woogie work if you're built like EG no offense in both cases you Channel energy to achieve whatever result with the only difference being the form of the spell where if it's your innate ability the form is already made for you and if it's it's a general spell you have to create your own this is quite interesting because if you look at this bell curve jiujitsu kaisen will fall right in the middle on the right hand side we have a spell casting system where the magic happens through well spells that are made for a specific purpose and the left hand side which is a much more flexible system where there are no incantations nor formulas and Magic just flows Avatar Style in this sense Jujutsu kaisen reminds me of Mok tensei Black Clover and such where you can choose what type of magic to use in a given situation however this is a very superficial comparison because in zuu the system is quite elaborate with literal layers of cursed energy proficiency speaking of which in order to even begin to use it one needs to learn how to control their emotions and not just because you need to have a clear mind focus and all that good stuff we see in almost every show but because cursed energy comes from negative emotions and if you let them run loose you'll be expanding set energy faster and losing control over it to the point of not being able to use it whatsoever you have to pay attention to your and your opponent's negative emotions since they're simultaneously a strength and a weakness for example one of the reasons Hanami was able to evacuate Joo from being in the position most Goa fans wish they were in is due to him temporarily removing all the hostility from master and his student although even if the school spin on emotions and combat sets jiujitsu kaisen apart from most shows I find it a bit inconsistent since the line between powering up and losing control is rather blurry we often see characters getting quite emotional and still maintaining their sorcery sometimes even improving it as for the examples of the opposite I can only think of the time tooro slapped some sense into itadori during their fight with the mother nature devil oh well on to another interesting aspect of cursed energy that Hunter Hunter and Full Metal Alchemist enjoyers will find familiar in order to gain something one must offer something in return there are at least three types of equiv in exchange here a wow a contract and a Heavenly pack the first one is self-imposed and works exactly as n conditions as long as I stand still the golden statue claps cheeks harder it's one of the most important Concepts in jiujitsu and is used in many techniques such as new Shadow style overtime and even some domain expansions for instance the most common vow is revealing your own technique to the opponent which is a smart way to legitimize people explaining their attacks mid battle and to make it a little stronger by sacrificing the surprise Factor the second type is a contract between Sorcerers it doesn't make anyone stronger per se but it's a sure way to make a deal because breaking it will result in a disproportionate backlash on whoever bail thirdly there's the Heavenly Packa it's pretty much a regular vow with only one caveat it's placed on you at burst so you have no control over it there aren't many cases of this occurrent yet all of them so far seem to be about trading cursed energy for physical prowess or the other way around next we have another similarity between jiujitsu and Nan the way this mystical resource behaves it's actually part of one's body and can be felt seen or tracked even without any dojutsu though the way characters feel it is closer to bleach and its spiritual power it flows within one's body which is crucial to understand for its proper usage and ability to predict what others will do Hunter Hunter did it better in my opinion as in both cases you can see what part of the body will be used to attack yet nen goes a step further and adds a risk element of reducing the defenses of everything else not to say that Sorcerers don't do that it just was never explicitly shown except for maybe when choso so yuji's attack coming and defended it by hardening blood in that particular area actually now that I think about it Panda boosted his frontal defense against mechamaru and Toto dropped it completely to avoid becoming Ham's personal flower garden hm still believe Hunter Hunter did a better job in this department but what what jjk has improved are traces or what's called residuals here just like normal humans leave Footprints smell and other marks behind cursed energy remains are left by its users unless they specifically cover them map it's a very cool concept because the whole purpose of sorcerers is to hunt curses and curse users think of ninjas for a second they have this entire Supernatural Spiel yet with a very few exceptions they track people by send and other normal forensic methods another thing you can do with jiujitsu energy is pour it into objects nothing particularly new as most shonens have a version of that but gjk also mixes in a few cool ideas the most obvious one are cursed corpses which is an inanimate object that gets possessed by a curse naturally or with the help of a sorcerer they aren't exactly maranets because these Muppets operate independently and there's even a one-of-a-kind mutation that resulted in a sentient plushy with a big heart moreover there are cursed tools and cursed objects with the former being created by a prolonged deliberate exposure to Cursed energy and the latter being mostly remnants of ancient Sorcerers now it's time to talk about how jiu Jutsu is used in the field yeah I wasn't lying when I said that this power system is very elaborate as all we did so far is establish what cursed energy is and what forms it takes so on to what I've already mentioned General application and personalized application no need to explain how it increases physical parameters like toughness speed speed power and so on it works the same in almost every story here you can also use it as a crud projectile to hit a target from a distance however I've never seen a sorcerer using it offensively likely because it's a very inefficient way to use cursed energy but what's very efficient is a barrier which comes in many flavors a simple barrier is used for SCP purposes a veil for a large area cursed energy concealment and a bunch of other ones used for everything in between there is even one designed to protect oneself from a domain expansion a pinnacle of jiujitsu that combines most of what we were talking about plus an inate curse technique it's some very dangerous which traps you in a Subspace that boosts your opponent and makes their attacks guaranteed to hit very few things can help you there and one of them is to create a small domain of your own which disrupts the domain expansion slightly making it lose its guaranteed hit effect the last common usage of Jutsu are shikigami they're basically Pokémons you can create and there is nothing too exciting about them with a couple exceptions finally we get to the meat and potatoes of jiujitsu Kaizen it's various unique abilities don't be fooled though they're deceptively nasty in terms of how much control you have over them very little which is why Sorcerers have to think outside the box to merge it with their fighting style and adapt it for each of their opponents consider a Nate curse technique as a weapon you are born with you might get a beautiful C Messer or a no less beautiful squeaky Hammer you have to make it work in either case because there is no exchange policy what you do have though are several tiers of abilities within any given technique normal extension maximum output and a supreme art the terminology might be a bit off due to translation yet it boils down to basic ability more powerful version maximum energy output and big dick energy not everyone achieves the last two but those who do they aren't messing around although it's important to know that not having a super elaborate ability doesn't mean you have no chance against a powerful opponent take Toto all he does is swap location and orientation of anything with cursed energy in his proximity on paper that's nothing to write home about until you see it in action where this absolute gorgeous unit is able to give special grades a run for their money additionally there is a reverse curse technique which turns cursed energy into positive energy and it's used to mostly heal human bodies sounds kind of reasonable since Cur energy comes from negativity and is Supernatural you have to make it good first to restore a physical body and just like with the domain expansion it's very Advanced sorcery with only about a dozen characters being able to use it oh and I almost forgot there is this move that technically speaking anybody can use as it's not tied to an innate technique black flash in simple terms it's a Critical Strike that has a 2.5 multiplier except that you need both skill and a degree of luck in order to land land it two reasons why this attack is so significant number one it deepens your understanding of jiujitsu making you a better sorcerer overall as well as empowering your several subsequent attacks with a bit more oomph and a much greater chance of Landing in black flash number two it's a devastating attack because of how Sorcerers usually fight remember my analogy with net when taking a blow you're protecting yourself with an equivalent amount of cursed energy let me visualize it with numbers if Yuji throws a punch using 100 points of cursed energy his opponent will have to counter with 100 points of their own otherwise they take damage in combat given speed and mental fatigue you can always counter with the correct amount so instead of 100 you block with 95 resulting in 5 Points of damage but what if you get hit with a black flash you can't see it coming as it happens in a fraction of a moment meaning you will have a 95 defense against the 250 attack now that's a lot of damage and even though these numbers are an approximation I hope this little display clarified why this move is so dangerous all right time to compare it to some other shows obviously it took a lot of inspiration from then so it's reasonable to start here considering Hunter Hunter is already a bench mark when talking about anime Power Systems it's actually somewhat close and you've already heard the similarities I brought up in addition to some differences they are both very creative systems that have a steep learning curve which starts with the most basic everyone has to figure out and evolves into a diverse set of individual abilities where no two are alike this is where jjk feels a bit inferior though because like it or not cursed energy has a great element of Randomness you either got an in a technique or you didn't not to mention that some of them are way more broken than the others in Hunter Hunter you do have a genetic Lottery when it comes to your n potential but you can create your own ability even if it doesn't suit you say you are an enhancer and you want the range attack totally doable you'll just have to work harder and it won't be as powerful yois what about Specialists they're also rare and can be totally broken good question a specialist is indeed a luck thing however to say that it trumps everyone else just because they have a cool otherwise unobtainable ability is incorrect because there is always a caveat nen is rarely about overpowering it's mostly about outsmarting take hok and Castro I honestly think that in a straight hand to hand this man is to Shon and protagonists loses if not always but most of the time and the reason he was able to secure a w is the same reason why Gojo was sealed Castro lost the mental battle in jiujitsu kaisen combat certainly has the element of strategy don't get me wrong yet it feels a bit more power-based and even unfair as a person without a technique is severely disadvantaged against the sorcerer who got lucky following tashi's work there are some points of comparison to Naruto chakra also has some basic stuff in advanced in relation to one's Elemental Affinity in theory this system allows for a rock paper scissors Dynamic against an opponent as well as opens many opportunities for team combinations in practice though we mostly saw lightning messing up the Earth moves in like four or five instances where elements were combined to empower an attack I'm not talking about 50 Shades of renan or other unique individual this is a fundamental part of Shinobi's Arsenal and should have been highlighted more especially with their team Dynamic going back to jjuu kaisen we kind of have that there are just very few examples noora hard counters rot technique but good luck to her Landing a blow on aarius as knockoff on that note another aspect of jiutu I believe is a bit undercooked is whatever this witchcraft was crossing a river is an important act in sorcery I mean sure there's some truths to that yet we were never told that it also implies super icious and spiritual stuff in addition to a pretty tangible C energy next we have all the other systems like haky Devil fruits quirks hamone breathing Riu and so on but we don't need to compare it to everything so it's time to draw some conclusions Jujutsu is a pretty all right system it has a bunch of rules and follows them decently allowing for reasonable as well as predictable progression of a character's Arsenal no real as bols like discovering a spell that will save the day mid battle everything you see was either learned on screen or was already known by that person still I can't deny the fact that the show leaves a lot of room for aate technique or a cursed object to shake up the story when the plot demands it it won't be our first rodeo and definitely not the last yet so far most things that have anything to do with csed energy in jiujitsu kaisen have been pretty rational even if to this day I don't know what it means to multiply Cur energy by itself in practice it was I Mah and analyzing negative emotions into the microphone have a great whatever time of the day you have until next time cheers

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Length: 15min 37sec (937 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 17 2024