Highlights

  • Cursed Energy in Jujutsu Kaisen powers sorcerers' techniques, leading to destructive attacks or healing abilities.
  • Reverse Cursed Techniques use positive energy to heal and can regrow limbs, only mastered by a few.
  • Cursed Technique Reversals invert techniques using positive energy, a rare skill for powerful sorcerers like Gojo.

Cursed Energy from Jujutsu Kaisen is very multifaceted. Since it essentially acts as the power supply behind the Cursed Technique of every sorcerer, it can be used to terrible effect, as sorcerers can also manipulate the energy that they have to release incredibly destructive attacks. However, Cursed Energy can be used in different ways, greatly adding to its overall versatility.

One such difference in its utilization comes in the form of Reverse Cursed Techniques, which add an entirely new dimension to how sorcerers fight. Though it is an extremely useful technique, only the most knowledgeable sorcerers can use it. On the other hand, Cursed Technique Reversal is an often overlooked aspect of sorcery in Jujutsu Kaisen and the only thing that brings both of these together is the requirement for positive Cursed Energy to operate, so let's check what they are and how they're used.

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What Is Reverse Cursed Technique?

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First Appearance

Jujutsu Kaisen, Prequel Chapter 0-4, "Bright Darkness"

Story Arc

The Cursed Child Arc

Users

Gojo, Shoko, Yuta, Yuji, Sukuna, Higuruma, Hakari, Kashimo, Kenjaku, Yuki

Reverse Cursed Technique is an essential technique to have for sorcerers at the highest levels. Cursed Techniques, and Cursed Energy in general, are born from the negative emotions that people have and, consequently, operate through the use of negative energy. However, when a sorcerer takes the negative energy in their bodies from multiple sources and multiplies them together, the resulting action ends up creating positive energy that the sorcerer can then use to heal themselves.

How Reverse Cursed Techniques are Used in Battle

The positive energy used for Reverse Cursed Technique essentially acts against the typical negative energy that can be used for Cursed Techniques or to make Cursed Spirits. Its main goal is to heal the person who uses it and it is so powerful in doing so that it can regrow entire limbs in a matter of seconds, making it an almost essential tool for fights involving the strongest sorcerers. Though it can be used to heal oneself, Yuta and Shoko are the only ones who can use their RCT to heal others.

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What Is Cursed Technique Reversal?

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First Appearance

Jujutsu Kaisen, Chapter 14, "Assault"

Story Arc

Fearsome Womb Arc

Users

Gojo, Kenjaku

Much like Reverse Cursed Technique, this is also an aspect of Cursed Energy manipulation that only the strongest sorcerers can use and is another one that requires the sorcerer to channel positive energy to use. The way that Cursed Technique Reversal works is by taking the inherent properties of a Cursed Technique and infusing them with positive energy, which makes the effect of the Cursed Technique act inversely. Though the possibilities for this are seemingly endless, even fewer sorcerers can do this than Reverse Cursed Technique.

How Cursed Technique Reversals are Used in Battle

Whereas Reverse Cursed Techniques require the mere production of positive energy to heal, Cursed Technique Reversals require the production of this positive energy, which is then supposed to be applied to a sorcerer's Cursed Technique, something which has only been shown by Gojo and Kenjaku. When applying CTR to Limitless, Gojo took Lapse Blue's power of attraction and created Reversal Red, a technique that has an infinite repulsive force instead of Blue's attractive one.

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The only other usage of CTR was seen in Kenjaku's battle with Yuki and Choso, where he used Kaori Itadori's innate Cursed Technique, Anti-Gravity System. The regular ability of this technique allows the user to eliminate the gravity of a selected target, essentially making them lose their footing and float about aimlessly. By applying CTR to this technique, the gravitational pull around the user is increased massively, grounding opponents and objects for a specific radius around them, so they cannot move.

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