Ryomen Sukuna is the great villain of Jujutsu Kaisen, and one of the most striking antagonists of modern shonen: a sorcerer of the Heian era, more than a thousand years old, so feared that he was taken for a demon with two faces and four arms, and who survived his own death in the form of twenty indestructible fingers. When a high-school student, Yuji Itadori, swallows one of those fingers in 2018, the King of Curses returns to the world in the body of a teenager he despises. This profile gathers everything you need to know about him: who he really is and where his name comes from, the Japanese legend that inspired him, his past in the Heian era, how the fingers and the binding vow with Yuji work, his techniques and his domain expansion, what he did in Shibuya, why and how he took Megumi Fushiguro's body, his end in the manga, his appearances in the anime, and finally how to choose his figure. The information comes from Gege Akutami's manga and from the anime; the profile is up to date as of 24 September 2026, and the passages that reveal what comes next in the manga are flagged before you read them.
At a glance
- Ryomen Sukuna (両面宿儺) is a human sorcerer of the Heian era, more than a thousand years ago, so powerful that he was nicknamed the King of Curses. He was never a cursed spirit in the strict sense: he is a special grade sorcerer who became, at his death, a cursed object.
- His name comes from a real figure of the Nihon Shoki, an eighth-century Japanese chronicle: a being with two faces and eight limbs, slain in the province of Hida.
- His power is split across twenty fingers that cannot be destroyed. In June 2018, Yuji Itadori swallows one and becomes his vessel; a binding vow, "Enchain", lets Sukuna take Yuji's body for one minute whenever he decides.
- His technique, Shrine, slices whatever he targets; his domain expansion, Malevolent Shrine, is a domain without walls that cuts everything apart within a radius of nearly 200 meters.
- In Shibuya, on 31 October 2018, he levels an entire district and destroys Mahoraga; later in the manga, he takes Megumi Fushiguro's body, kills Gojo, and falls in chapter 268 to Yuji and his allies.
- In his original form, he has four arms, four eyes and two mouths. In our store, Sukuna appears on 30 items, from figures to wall scrolls.
Contents
- Who is Ryomen Sukuna? The identity card
- The real Ryomen Sukuna: the legend of the Nihon Shoki
- The King of Curses of the Heian era: his origins
- The twenty fingers, Yuji Itadori and the binding vow
- Sukuna's techniques explained simply
- Malevolent Shrine: a domain without walls
- Shibuya: Jogo, Mahoraga and a leveled district
- Megumi's body: Sukuna's plan (later in the manga)
- Shinjuku: Gojo, Yuji and the fall of the King of Curses (later in the manga)
- Sukuna in the anime: seasons and episodes
- Why Sukuna fascinates so much
- Sukuna figures and merchandise: how to choose
- Frequently asked questions
- Further reading
Who is Ryomen Sukuna? The identity card
Ryomen Sukuna is the main antagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen. In a world where humans' negative emotions give birth to cursed spirits, he holds a place apart: he is neither a curse born of fear nor an ordinary sorcerer, but a man of the Heian era, the golden age of jujutsu, whose power surpassed anything his time could throw at him. Legend turned him into an "imaginary demon"; the truth is more unsettling: Sukuna was human, and he killed thousands of sorcerers who came to challenge him, until people called him the King of Curses. His author, Gege Akutami, sums him up in one line: Sukuna is less a sorcerer than "a walking disaster". Here are the facts people look up most often about him.
| Detail | What to remember |
|---|---|
| Name | Ryomen Sukuna (両面宿儺, Ryōmen Sukuna). "Ryomen" means "two faces", literally as well as figuratively. |
| Titles | The King of Curses, the Imaginary Demon, the Disgraced One, the strongest sorcerer in history. |
| Nature | Human. A sorcerer of the Heian era who became, at his death, a special grade cursed object: his twenty fingers. |
| Age | More than a thousand years. Born in the Heian era, reincarnated in June 2018 in the body of Yuji Itadori. |
| Appearance | In his original form: four arms, four eyes, two mouths and black markings all over his body. In a vessel: the markings appear on the face and arms, with a second pair of eyes under the normal ones. |
| Technique | Shrine: two slashing attacks, Cleave and Dismantle, plus a fire technique, the fire arrow. |
| Domain expansion | Malevolent Shrine: a domain without a barrier, whose guaranteed slashes reach up to nearly 200 meters. |
| Vessels | Yuji Itadori (June 2018), then Megumi Fushiguro (late 2018, in the manga). |
| Voice | Junichi Suwabe in Japanese, Ray Chase in English. |
| First appearances | Chapter 1 of the manga and episode 1 of the anime, the day Yuji swallows his first finger. |
| Distinguishing features | Laughs at others' misfortune, despises the weak, respects strength; meals cooked by Uraume, his loyal follower. He never started a family. |
What strikes first is the contrast with the hero he inhabits: Yuji is generous, simple, ready to die for strangers; Sukuna sees humans as insects and cannot understand why the weak cling to life. But the author gave him a coherence: Sukuna respects those who come to challenge him, he praises a defeated opponent, he keeps his word when he makes a binding vow, and he refuses pity to the very end, taking it as an insult. It is this mix of cruelty and inverted code of honor that makes him so memorable, and it is him you find on our wall scroll of Sukuna and his four eyes or in the 27 cm Ryomen Sukuna figure, marked torso and predatory grin.
The real Ryomen Sukuna: the legend of the Nihon Shoki
Sukuna did not come out of nowhere. His name is borrowed from a figure of the Chronicles of Japan (Nihon Shoki, completed in 720), in the passage devoted to the 65th year of Emperor Nintoku's reign. The text describes, in the province of Hida, deep in the mountains of today's Gifu prefecture, a being "with two faces", one at the front and one at the back of the head, with four arms and four legs, of inhuman strength, who plundered the people and rejected imperial authority. The court sends a general against him, Takefurukuma, who kills him. For historians, this monster probably describes a local chieftain resisting the expansion of Yamato power: presenting him as a two-headed creature was a way of belittling the enemy.
But the Hida region did not keep that memory of him. Along the old road that crosses Gifu, temples venerate him instead as a hero: he is said to have slain a venomous dragon, driven out a demon on the emperor's orders, and founded the Senkō-ji temple in Takayama, which still keeps a statue of him, with two faces set side by side, carved by the monk Enkū in the seventeenth century. A squash grown there even bears his name, the Sukuna kabocha. Gege Akutami took the appearance of the legend, the two faces, the four arms, the reputation of calamity, but his Sukuna is not the mythological character: he is a man of the Heian era who was given that name because of his extraordinary body. In other words, in Jujutsu Kaisen, the legend of the Nihon Shoki is a distortion, and the original is him.
The King of Curses of the Heian era: his origins
The Heian era (794-1185) is, in Jujutsu Kaisen, the golden age of jujutsu: a time when cursed spirits swarmed and sorcerers were more numerous and more powerful than today. At the summit of that era stands Sukuna. The manga reveals very late, in chapter 257, the origin of his body: he was born a twin and devoured his brother in their mother's womb, which gave him his four arms and his two mouths. A starving child in a world of famine, he grew up without ever attaching himself to anyone, and made strength his only bond with others: answering those who sharpen themselves to come and kill him, he says, is his way of relating to the world.
His record in the Heian era comes down to a few feats the manga recalls with dread. He single-handedly slaughtered the Sun, Moon and Stars Squad and the Five Empty Generals, the military elite of the Fujiwara clan, to the point that the authorities preferred to hold festivities in his honor rather than keep fighting him. He crossed paths with Kenjaku, the thousand-year-old sorcerer who manipulates brains and switches bodies, and it was from him that he learned to split his soul into cursed objects. He was served by Uraume, a sorcerer with an ice technique who cooked his meals and who is found at his side again in 2018. And he was loved by Yorozu, a sorceress of his time whom he killed, and who left him, through a binding vow, a replica of his weapon, the Kamutoke. At his death, rather than vanish, Sukuna accepted Kenjaku's proposal to one day take part in the Culling Game: he turned his body into a cursed object, his energy and his soul split across twenty fingers that nothing can destroy. Our four-armed Sukuna figure, 32 cm reproduces that original form, the ruler of Heian, and the wall scroll of Sukuna in a red robe shows him as the manga imagines him in his own time.
The twenty fingers, Yuji Itadori and the binding vow
All of Jujutsu Kaisen begins with a finger. In June 2018, at the Sendai high school where he studies, Yuji Itadori swallows one of Sukuna's fingers to save his friends, attacked by cursed spirits drawn by the object. A finger of Sukuna is a special grade cursed object: whoever ingests it should die on the spot or become a monster. Yuji, however, keeps control of his body, and that is what makes him an anomaly the higher-ups want to execute at once. Satoru Gojo obtains a reprieve: Yuji will live long enough to gather and swallow the twenty fingers, so that Sukuna dies with him. That is the founding deal of the series, and it is also why every finger recovered makes the King of Curses stronger.
Sukuna does not wait passively. As early as episode 5 of season 1, he takes advantage of a moment when Yuji hands him the body to tear out his heart, and he only gives it back in exchange for a binding vow: when he says the word "Enchain" (契闊), he will take control of Yuji's body for one minute, without killing or injuring anyone, and Yuji will forget the agreement. Yuji accepts without knowing what he is signing, and forgets it. That vow lies dormant through the whole manga, until the day Sukuna decides to use it. The manga also reveals, in chapter 257, why Yuji can contain Sukuna where anyone else would die: Yuji is Kenjaku's child, who implanted a finger in him at birth, and his father, Jin Itadori, is the reincarnation of the twin Sukuna devoured. The hero and the monster are, literally, family. This forced cohabitation is one of fans' favorite subjects, and one of our shelves' too: our Yuji Itadori and Sukuna figure, 17 cm brings them together back to back, the Yuji Itadori and Sukuna wall scroll overlays them, and the Sukuna awakening iPhone case captures the moment the markings appear on Yuji's face. As for the finger itself, our replica of Sukuna's finger on its calligraphy board sets it on a shelf, in its box, like a real cursed object.
Sukuna's techniques explained simply
Sukuna's innate technique is called Shrine, and it comes down to slicing. It has two forms. Dismantle (解, Kai) is an invisible, fast slash that cuts apart whatever has no cursed energy: buildings, the ground, objects, but also ordinary bodies. Cleave (捌, also Kai) targets whatever has it: it adjusts to the target's cursed energy and toughness to cut it apart in a single stroke, however solid it is. Sukuna launches them with no visible gesture, at range, in volleys, and his slashes are powerful enough to cut a skyscraper in half. Our Sukuna Dismantle figure, 23 cm freezes the finger gesture at the moment of the cut.
Shrine also hides a fire technique, which Sukuna calls "Open" and which fans know as the fire arrow: an arrow of flames formed between his hands, which explodes on impact into a column of fire able to annihilate a shikigami the size of Mahoraga. He has shown it only in Shibuya, and it comes out of his stomach mouth in his original form. On top of that come the fundamentals Sukuna masters better than anyone: the reverse cursed technique, which lets him heal and regrow lost hands; domain amplification, which neutralizes enemy techniques on contact; Black Flash, the blow where cursed energy strikes within a millionth of a second of the fist, with which he crushes Choso in Shinjuku; and hand-to-hand combat that lets him, with sixteen fingers, send Jogo flying through several buildings. He also wields cursed tools from his own time, the Kamutoke, a vajra-like weapon that unleashes lightning, and the trident Hiten. Finally, in Megumi's body, he inherits the Ten Shadows technique and its shikigami, including Mahoraga; it is from the latter's adaptation that he draws, in Shinjuku, the slash that cuts the world itself. The wall scroll of Sukuna and the fire arrow and the black claws wall scroll illustrate the two faces of that arsenal, fire and the cut.
Malevolent Shrine: a domain without walls
Sukuna's domain expansion is called Malevolent Shrine (伏魔御廚子, Fukuma Mizushi). It takes the form of a warped Buddhist shrine, resting on bovine skulls, whose four entrances are mouths lined with human teeth: a shrine built to honor demons, in the image of its master. Inside its area of effect, the slashes of Shrine, Dismantle and Cleave, strike without pause and without fail, until nothing but dust remains. It appears as early as chapter 8 of the manga and episode 4 of the anime, when Sukuna, with only three fingers, cuts a special grade cursed spirit to pieces to show Megumi what "true jujutsu" is.
What makes this domain unique is that it has no barrier. Other domain expansions lock the opponent inside a closed space; Sukuna deploys his domain in the real world, without closing it. Leaving an exit is a tacit binding vow, and that vow earns him an outsized reach: the zone where his slashes hit without fail extends to a radius of nearly 200 meters. He can also change its rules mid-action, as he will do against Gojo to let his slashes pass through the enemy barrier. The crossed-hands gesture that opens it has become, along with the throne of skulls of his inner domain, the most recognizable image of the character: it is the one on our wall scroll of Sukuna and the shrine, the crossed-hands wall scroll and the Sukuna on his throne iPhone case. The domain duel against Gojo's Unlimited Void, and the way Malevolent Shrine made the enemy barrier give way, are detailed round by round in our Gojo vs Sukuna breakdown.
Shibuya: Jogo, Mahoraga and a leveled district
On 31 October 2018, during the Shibuya Incident, Sukuna goes from latent threat to actual catastrophe. While Gojo has just been sealed and Yuji fights among the hostages, the cursed spirit Jogo forces about ten fingers down his throat at once. The King of Curses wakes with sixteen fingers out of twenty, 80% of his power, and a cursed energy all of Shibuya can feel. He starts with Jogo, the most powerful cursed spirit in Mahito's group: he punches him through several buildings, dodges his meteor, then finishes him with his fire arrow. Before burning him, he grants him what nobody expected from him: a tribute. Jogo, he tells him, can stand proud, he is strong. The scene, adapted in episode 16 of season 2, has become one of the most quoted lines of the series. Uraume, his loyal follower from the Heian era, then comes to find him.
Then Megumi, at the end of his strength, summons Mahoraga, the shikigami no one has ever tamed, to sacrifice himself. Sukuna has other plans for that body: he fights the shikigami in his place. Since Mahoraga adapts to everything that hits it, it must be destroyed in one blow before it adjusts. Sukuna then opens Malevolent Shrine over Shibuya, narrows its range to 140 meters to spare Megumi, and cuts up everything else: the shikigami, the buildings, the cursed spirits, and hundreds of civilians who happened to be there. Toge Inumaki loses an arm. Then he finishes Mahoraga with a fire arrow that leaves a pillar of flames in the middle of the city, picks up the shikigami's wheel and throws it away, before bringing Megumi's body back to Shoko Ieiri, because he will need it. When Yuji regains consciousness amid the ruins, he understands that he was the weapon of a massacre. It is the turning point of his life as a hero, and one of the most impressive moments of the anime, adapted in episode 17 of season 2. Our Mahoraga figure and our Ryomen Sukuna in flames figure, 30 cm let you recreate the duel on a shelf; the Megumi and Mahoraga's wheel iPhone case keeps its symbol.
Megumi's body: Sukuna's plan (later in the manga)
This section and the next reveal events the anime has not adapted yet. If you only follow the animated series, skip to the anime section.
Why did Sukuna save Megumi's body in Shibuya? Because he wanted it for himself. The Ten Shadows technique is one of the only ones in the jujutsu world able to rival Gojo's Six Eyes, and Mahoraga is its centerpiece. The King of Curses bides his time throughout the Culling Game, then strikes in chapter 212, at the moment Megumi believes he has found his sister Tsumiki again: the girl is in fact Yorozu, the Heian sorceress, reincarnated in her body. While everyone is looking elsewhere, a mouth opens on Yuji's cheek and says "Enchain". The forgotten vow activates: Sukuna has Yuji's body for one minute, without being able to hurt anyone. He does not need to. He splits his soul into a finger, makes Megumi swallow it, and reincarnates in him.
What follows is a psychological demolition. To stop Megumi's soul from regaining the upper hand, Sukuna drowns it: he kills Yorozu in Tsumiki's guise, in front of Megumi, to break his will, then immerses himself in the bath prepared by Uraume, a ritual that pushes the boy's soul to the bottom of his own body. He then recovers his last fingers and regains, for the first time in a thousand years, the entirety of his power. In this new vessel, his appearance changes: Megumi's spiky black hair, Sukuna's black markings on the face and arms, a second pair of eyes under the normal ones. That is the Sukuna who sets Gojo an appointment for 24 December, and he is the one shown on the Sukuna in control iPhone case and the wall scroll of Sukuna with joined hands. The price of this plan, for Yuji, is immense: he has lost his best friend from the inside, and he will spend the rest of the manga trying to get him back.
Shinjuku: Gojo, Yuji and the fall of the King of Curses (later in the manga)
On 24 December 2018, in Shinjuku, Sukuna faces Satoru Gojo, the only sorcerer of the era able to stand up to him. The fight runs from chapter 223 to chapter 236, with four domain battles, an Unlimited Void that paralyzes him, a full-power Purple that tears off his hands, and Mahoraga summoned to learn how to cut through the Infinity. In chapter 236, Gojo falls, cut in two by a slash aimed at the world itself. We do not replay the match here: the course of the fight, the arguments of both camps and the verdict are in our Gojo vs Sukuna breakdown, round by round, and the complete portrait of his opponent in our Satoru Gojo profile. Let us only remember that Sukuna, at the end, calls Gojo a magnificent opponent he will never forget, something he had never said of anyone.
The rest of the Shinjuku arc is a siege. Sukuna, badly wounded, regains his original form, four arms and two mouths, and disposes of Hajime Kashimo, the sorcerer who came from four centuries earlier to challenge him, in chapter 238. Then come the others, in waves: Hiromi Higuruma and his judgment hammer, Yuta Okkotsu, Maki Zenin, Todo Aoi, Choso, who dies protecting Yuji, and finally Yuta in Gojo's body. None is enough alone. But Yuji has changed: his fists now strike the soul, his Black Flashes chain together, and he has learned to open his own domain. In chapter 268, inside that domain, Yuji tears Megumi's soul away from Sukuna. The King of Curses, reduced to a remnant of a body, hears his victor offer him another life: to come back into him, to stop being a curse. Sukuna refuses, says Yuji's name for the first time, reminds him that he is a curse, and disappears. Uraume, further away in the city, concedes defeat. The manga ends in chapter 271, in September 2024, with Gojo's students getting back on their feet. On a shelf, the confrontation is told with our Sukuna versus Gojo wall scroll and the chibi Gojo and Sukuna figure, the two strongest side by side for once.
Sukuna in the anime: seasons and episodes
For those discovering the character through the anime, here is where he appears, season by season, and how far the adaptation had gone as of 24 September 2026. Sukuna does not appear in the film Jujutsu Kaisen 0, which takes place before Yuji swallows his first finger.
| Work | Broadcast | What Sukuna does in it |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (24 episodes) | October 2020 to March 2021 | Episode 1: Yuji swallows the finger, Sukuna wakes up. Episode 4: Malevolent Shrine against a special grade cursed spirit. Episodes 5 and 6: the torn-out heart, the fight against Megumi and the "Enchain" vow. At the end of the season, he repels Mahito's technique from inside Yuji. |
| Season 2 (23 episodes) | July to December 2023 | The Shibuya Incident. Episode 16: Sukuna wakes with most of his fingers and crushes Jogo. Episode 17: Malevolent Shrine unleashed on Shibuya and the destruction of Mahoraga by the fire arrow. |
| Season 3, first part (12 episodes) | 8 January to 26 March 2026 | The Culling Game: Sukuna stays in Yuji's body, a looming presence and a commentator of the fights. The season stops before he changes vessel. |
The takeover of Megumi's body, the duel against Gojo and the fall in Shinjuku exist only in the manga for now, from chapter 212 onward. To know where to pick up the reading after season 3, our ranking of the best anime of 2026 gives the exact chapter where episode 12 stops; and if you want to know why the fights of Jujutsu Kaisen set the standard, our ranking of the best action anime gives it second place, largely thanks to the Shibuya night.
Why Sukuna fascinates so much
In the popularity polls of the magazine that publishes the manga, Sukuna has never been part of the top three: tenth in the first vote with nearly 6,000 votes, thirteenth in the second, twelfth in the third, then ninth in the fourth, with a little over 4,000 votes. Japanese readers vote for those they love, and Sukuna is not made to be loved. Yet on Google, "sukuna" is the second most searched Jujutsu Kaisen character name, behind Gojo and far ahead of Yuji; and in our store, he is the second character of the license by number of items. A villain people do not vote for but search for, draw and collect: that is the definition of a great antagonist.
Several reasons add up. The design, first: the black markings on Yuji's body, the second pair of eyes, the grin, then the four-armed original form, one of the strangest silhouettes in recent shonen. The voice, next, deep and amused, which turned each of his appearances into an event. The role, above all: Sukuna is the rare shonen villain who wins for real, who kills the all-powerful mentor of the series instead of losing to him, and who forces the hero to become something other than a nice boy. And the ending, finally: a monster who is offered a hand and refuses it, not out of pride alone, but because accepting pity would mean no longer being himself. Chapter 268 was one of the most discussed manga events of 2024, and every anime season revives demand: season 2 made Shibuya its showcase, and the next ones, those that will adapt Megumi's body and Shinjuku, will make him the center of the story. Our wall scroll of Sukuna with the blazing eye sums up that charisma in a single look.
Sukuna figures and merchandise: how to choose
The Sukuna range in our Jujutsu Kaisen universe counts 30 items as we write: figures, wall scrolls, iPhone cases, t-shirts and the finger replica. Three questions are enough to choose. Which Sukuna? The one in Yuji's body, pink hair and black markings, the most common; the one in Megumi's body, black hair, rare as a figure; or the four-armed original form, the most spectacular. Which scene? The throne of skulls of his inner domain, the Dismantle cut, the fire arrow of Shibuya, or the face-off with Yuji or Gojo. Which size? The 10 cm chibi for a desk, 17 to 27 cm for a shelf, 30 to 32 cm for a centerpiece.
For a first figure, the 27 cm Ryomen Sukuna figure is the safe bet: the King of Curses in Yuji's body, standing, markings visible, at a size that fits on a living-room shelf. For a scene, the 23 cm Dismantle and the 30 cm flames are the two most requested pieces; for the duo, the 17 cm Yuji and Sukuna figure tells the whole series in one object. For a gift you cannot get wrong, the chibi Ryomen Sukuna figure, 10 cm and the chibi Gojo and Sukuna stay within small budgets, and the Yuji Itadori and Sukuna t-shirt dresses the fan. For collectors, the 32 cm four-armed original form is the centerpiece of a display cabinet, to be chosen for a precise spot; and the finger replica, in its calligraphy box, is the most original object in the range, the one visitors notice first.
The wall and everyday life are not forgotten. Our Jujutsu Kaisen wall scrolls feature Sukuna in a dozen designs, from the throne to the flames, and the Jujutsu Kaisen iPhone cases pick up his strongest images, including the Sukuna with a pipe case, the King of Curses at rest. One rule for everything made of PVC: no direct sunlight, which dulls the reds and yellows the skin tones, and a closed cabinet above a certain value. Our guide to displaying and caring for figures covers lighting and heights; and if the figure is meant for someone else, our manga gift guide reminds you that a Jujutsu Kaisen fan is often "team Gojo" or "team Sukuna", rarely both.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen?
Ryomen Sukuna is the main antagonist of Jujutsu Kaisen: a human sorcerer of the Heian era, more than a thousand years old, so powerful that he was nicknamed the King of Curses. At his death, he turned his body into twenty indestructible cursed fingers. He returns in June 2018 when Yuji Itadori swallows one of those fingers.
Is Sukuna a human or a cursed spirit?
A human. Despite his title of King of Curses and the legend of the imaginary demon, Sukuna was a sorcerer of the Heian era, born with four arms and two mouths because he devoured his twin in their mother's womb. It is his twenty fingers, special grade cursed objects, that tie him to the world of curses.
Why does Sukuna have four arms and two faces?
In the manga, because he was born a twin and absorbed his brother in their mother's womb (chapter 257): he keeps four arms, four eyes and two mouths from it. The name and the appearance come from a figure of the Chronicles of Japan (Nihon Shoki), a being with two faces and eight limbs from the province of Hida.
Did Ryomen Sukuna really exist?
A figure of that name appears in the Nihon Shoki, a chronicle completed in 720, under the reign of Emperor Nintoku: a being with two faces and four arms from the province of Hida, killed by the general Takefurukuma. Historians see in him a rebellious local chieftain; in the Gifu region, temples venerate him instead as a founding hero.
How many fingers does Sukuna have?
Twenty. At his death, Sukuna split his cursed energy and his soul across his twenty fingers, cursed objects that nothing can destroy. Yuji Itadori swallows the first in June 2018; Sukuna regains his full power when all twenty are gathered in Megumi Fushiguro's body, later in the manga.
Why can Yuji contain Sukuna?
Because he is family. Chapter 257 reveals that Yuji is Kenjaku's child, who implanted a finger of Sukuna in him at birth, and that his father, Jin Itadori, is the reincarnation of the twin Sukuna devoured. That bond is what lets him keep control of his body where anyone else would die.
What is the "Enchain" binding vow between Sukuna and Yuji?
After tearing out Yuji's heart in season 1, Sukuna gives it back in exchange for a binding vow: when he says "Enchain", he will take Yuji's body for one minute, without killing or injuring anyone, and Yuji will forget the agreement. Sukuna uses it in chapter 212 to transfer his soul into Megumi Fushiguro.
What is Sukuna's technique?
Shrine, a ranged slashing technique in two forms: Dismantle, for whatever has no cursed energy, and Cleave, which adjusts to the target's cursed energy. He adds a fire technique, the fire arrow, the reverse cursed technique, Black Flash and, in Megumi's body, the Ten Shadows technique.
What is Malevolent Shrine?
Sukuna's domain expansion: a warped Buddhist shrine, resting on skulls, whose slashes strike without fail everything within its area of effect. Its particularity is that it has no barrier: deployed in the real world, it reaches a radius of nearly 200 meters. It appears as early as episode 4 of the anime.
What does Sukuna do in Shibuya?
On 31 October 2018, after Jogo forces about ten fingers down Yuji's throat, Sukuna takes control, kills Jogo, then faces Mahoraga, summoned by Megumi. He opens Malevolent Shrine over the district, kills hundreds of civilians, destroys Mahoraga with a fire arrow and saves Megumi's body, which he needs.
How does Sukuna take Megumi's body?
In chapter 212 of the manga, he activates the "Enchain" vow, takes Yuji's body for one minute, splits his soul into a finger and makes Megumi Fushiguro swallow it. He then kills Yorozu, who was posing as Tsumiki, to break Megumi's will, then recovers his last fingers. This arc has not been adapted in the anime yet.
Did Sukuna kill Gojo?
Yes, in chapter 236 of the manga, on 24 December 2018 in Shinjuku, with a slash aimed at the world itself, developed thanks to Mahoraga's adaptation. The course of the fight, the arguments of both camps and our verdict are in the Gojo vs Sukuna breakdown.
How does Sukuna die?
In chapter 268, in Shinjuku, after a siege led by Yuji, Yuta, Maki, Higuruma, Todo and the others. Yuji tears Megumi's soul away from Sukuna inside his own domain; reduced to a remnant of a body, Sukuna refuses the hand Yuji holds out to him, says his name for the first time and disappears. The manga ends in chapter 271.
Which episodes is Sukuna in?
In season 1 (2020-2021) from episode 1, then in episodes 4 to 6 for Malevolent Shrine and the vow; in season 2 (2023), in episodes 16 and 17, for Jogo, Mahoraga and the destruction of Shibuya; in season 3 (2026), he stays in Yuji's body. He does not appear in the film Jujutsu Kaisen 0.
Who voices Sukuna?
Junichi Suwabe voices Sukuna in Japanese, and Ray Chase in English. His deep, amused voice, very different from Yuji's even though they share the same body, is one of the reasons for the character's popularity.
Which Sukuna figure should I choose?
For a first figure, a version in Yuji's body around 27 cm, black markings and grin. For a scene, Dismantle or the fire arrow of Shibuya. For a small budget, a 10 cm chibi. For a collector, the 32 cm four-armed original form, or the finger replica in its box. Our Jujutsu Kaisen range counts 30 items in his likeness.
Further reading
- The whole Jujutsu Kaisen universe in our store: the Jujutsu Kaisen collection, with the figures, the chibis, the iPhone cases and the wall scrolls.
- His opponent and their duel: everything about Satoru Gojo, and Gojo vs Sukuna, who is really the strongest? The verdict, round by round.
- Where the anime stands: our ranking of the best anime of 2026, with Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 at the top, and the best action anime.
- For the display cabinet: displaying and caring for your figures; for gifting: the manga gift guide.
