Highlights
- Reverse Cursed Technique is a powerful ability in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, allowing users to turn negative Cursed Energy into positive energy for healing and combat purposes.
- The process to achieve Reverse Cursed Technique involves multiplying two negative sources of Cursed Energy, resulting in a form of energy that creates rather than destroys.
- Only a handful of skilled sorcerers in the series can effectively use Reverse Cursed Technique, making it rare and difficult to master. Its applications include healing, fighting against Cursed Spirits, and replenishing burnt-out Cursed Technique.
The world of Jujutsu Kaisen is absolutely massive and, over the years, Gege Akutami has introduced fans to quite a lot of different aspects of the power system that is Cursed Energy. Fans have seen the basic usage of this Cursed Energy as well as many advanced and complex usages such as Domain Expansions, among quite a lot of other things.
Among the many powers that Akutami has introduced is Reverse Cursed Technique as well, which only a handful of characters can use with extreme proficiency. This technique is extremely useful, which is why the very best of the sorcerers in the series can utilize it extensively.
What Is Reverse Cursed Technique
Reverse Cursed Technique was introduced to the fans very early into the series, however, it wasn't until much later that it was properly explained, as well as explored. Simply put, Reverse Cursed Technique falls into the bracket of the usage of Cursed Energy, and in that sense, it is very similar to regular Cursed Techniques, however, there is a major difference in that it takes Cursed Energy and then manages to reverse it, giving rise to positive energy instead. Cursed Energy, by its own nature, is considered to be negative and, as the name implies, positive cursed energy would then be the complete reverse of it, which explains why the power is called Reverse Cursed Technique.
The process to achieve Reverse Cursed Technique is quite interesting and simple to understand. To give rise to positive Cursed Energy, two negative sources of Cursed Energy need to be multiplied together. The resultant cursed energy turns out to be a form of energy that doesn't destroy but instead creates, which is yet another reason why it is called positive energy.
While the concept of understanding Reverse Cursed Technique is quite simple, performing them isn't nearly as simple. There are countless users of Cursed Energy in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, however, only a handful of users can use Reverse Cursed Technique and even fewer can use them with high proficiency. This just goes to show that it is not easy to make use of these powers and that they are exceptionally difficult to master, even for some of the most skilled Jujutsu users.
The Applications Of Reverse Cursed Technique
Reverse Cursed Technique is not used mainly for combative purposes. Most of the time, they are used to heal bodies as that is believed to be their biggest use in battle. Regular Cursed Energy, being negative, cannot be used to heal creatures. Positive energy, however, certainly can. The powers of positive energy, when making use of the Reverse Cursed Technique can heal flesh as well as bones. Depending on how good the user's mastery of this skill is, they can even recover from near-death scenarios.
Fans have already seen countless instances where a character is on the verge of death with no way out and Reverse Cursed Energy has been used to save them. This makes the usage of this technique incredibly overpowered. However, at the same time, that is also one of the main reasons why the usage of it is so rare. Not anyone can use this power or it would be way too easy for characters in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen to avoid death. The strongest of the lot, however, certainly can use it to great effect and can actually even heal their bodies multiple times, as fans have already seen in the story on several occasions.
Even when it comes to healing, there are certain levels to the usage of Reverse Cursed Technique. Among those who can use it, the vast majority can just heal themselves. However, there are certain characters who can use Reverse Cursed Technique so well that they can also extend this healing to other people and bring them back even from the brink of death, which is nothing short of staggering.
At the same time, since Reverse Cursed Technique makes use of positive energy, they are also a great weapon to use against Cursed Spirits. The bodies of Cursed Spirits are, naturally, made with Cursed Energy, which is negative in nature. This means that the usage of positive energy against them is highly effective. If Reverse Cursed Energy is used against them, their body starts to disintegrate and eventually lose all form, making them die in the process. The strongest of Jujutsu users can make use of this technique against even high-level Cursed Spirits, and this makes them especially dangerous to their kind.
At the same time, another incredible application of Reverse Cursed Technique is to replenish the burnt-out Cursed Technique, especially after Domain Expansion usage. Fans have seen this on several occasions, thanks to Satoru Gojo, and he is believed to be an expert in doing this, even going as far as doing it several times in a single fight. Furthermore, when combined with the Six Eyes, Satoru can allow himself to use this dangerous technique over and over again, since his usage of Cursed Energy becomes far more refined.
One catch is that a user cannot use Reverse Cursed Technique to do two things at the same time. Essentially, what this means is that the user can either heal their bodies or replenish their burnt-out Cursed Technique. Both of these things cannot be done at the same time. Even if a user of Reverse Cursed Technique is good enough to do both things one after the other, it is incredibly hard to do it efficiently and only Gojo can accomplish that perfectly.
The Users Of Reverse Cursed Technique
Over the years, fans have seen several users of Reverse Cursed Technique in Jujutsu Kaisen and quite a lot of them are extremely powerful sorcerers. For starters, fans already know that Gojo Satoru is an extremely good user of Reverse Cursed Technique. He has made use of Reverse Cursed Technique to heal himself on countless occasions. In fact, he can even replenish his burnt-out Cursed Technique over and over again, and this was especially shown to the fans during his fight against Sukuna.
There is, however, a limit to how much his body can take. Replenishing his Cursed Technique requires Satoru to destroy a part of his brain and then heal it. Doing this even once is very dangerous. After five times, Satoru starts feeling the effect of this and could potentially end up hitting his limit.
There are also other powerful users of Reverse Cursed Technique in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Sukuna is among them as well. Just like Satoru, Sukuna can use Reverse Cursed Technique to heal both his body and replenish his burnt-out Cursed Technique. Of course, he can't do it with as much precision as Gojo. Other than these two characters, there are several others in the story that fans have seen being able to use Reverse Cursed Technique and they include the likes of Kenjaku, Uraume, Yuta Okkotsu, and Shoko Ieiri.
In the future, fans will most certainly see more characters make use of Reverse Cursed Technique and, perhaps, the applications of this incredible power can be expanded upon by the author, Gege Akutami.
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