Highlights
- Cursed tools are essential in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, providing unique abilities that aid in battles against cursed spirits.
- Nanako's cellphone can manipulate anything captured with its camera, but its repeated use takes a toll on her stamina.
- The Inverted Spear of Heaven is an unparalleled special-grade cursed tool that can nullify cursed techniques, even bringing down Satoru Gojo's powerful Limitless technique.
Jujutsu Kaisen is a world full of fascinating settings, formidable characters, and captivating weapons. Despite the manga and anime showcasing various powerful and complex cursed techniques, cursed tools are equally important in a sorcerer's arsenal.
These weapons range from simple daggers to potent artifacts that can even match special-grade cursed spirits, offering their wielders unique abilities that aid them in battles against cursed spirits. Cursed tools play a vital role in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen. This article provides a comprehensive ranking of the best cursed tools in Jujutsu Kaisen based on their strength, abilities, and overall usefulness in combat.
Updated August 13, 2023, by Emedo Destiny: Cursed tools are weapons imbued with a curse that can be used by both sorcerers and non-sorcerers. As opposed to cursed objects, which are dangerous items containing cursed energy, they mostly take the form of actual weapons and are much easier to use in combat. A weapon may become a cursed tool gradually as it is imbued with cursed energy, and they are ranked from grade one to four according to how powerful they are. Furthermore, cursed tools can cost a lot of money, as their values usually range from five hundred thousand to five million yen. They are particularly effective against cursed spirits and can elevate a sorcerer's potency by several levels.
15 Nanako’s Cellphone
Nanako is a sorcerer associated with both the deceased Geto Suguru and his imposter Kenjaku. She and her sister were saved by Geto as children and have been his loyal followers ever since. They shared in his ambition and would go to great lengths to assist him. She has a unique cursed tool in the form of a cellphone and has the ability to manipulate anything captured with its camera.
Its applications have not been fully explored but she has been shown using it to quickly move between locations. The process takes a toll on her stamina and is not fit for repeated use. Though her camera is necessary for it to work, it is actually an innate technique that is facilitated by her cellphone.
14 Higuruma’s Gavel
Higuruma’s gavel is a tool that represents his line of work as well as his dedication to doing what he believes is right. Despite starting out as a regular defense attorney, Higuruma is an extremely powerful sorcerer who was one of the top players in the Culling Game. The gavel has the ability to take different forms and be manipulated in many ways. For example, he is able to turn it into a hammer, staff, mallet, and other useful weapons.
It is also connected to his innate technique which consists of a variety of abilities that aid him in delivering judgment upon individuals he deems guilty of committing grave offences.
13 Meimei’s Battle Axe
Meimei is known as an avaricious woman whose attachment to money is seemingly more significant to her than the relationship she has with any person or thing. She is a grade-one sorcerer whose strength has been recognized by Gojo himself, and her main abilities involve the use of crows for multiple purposes.
Her cursed tool of choice is a large battle axe as tall as she is, though its specific ability is unknown. She has been seen on multiple occasions swinging the axe rather skillfully and with good effect, taking down cursed spirits with ease and efficiency.
12 Nanami’s Sword
Nanami is an interesting side character with solid principles, who is most times serious to a fault. His cursed weapon is a short sword constantly wrapped in cloth, and it is connected to his ability, aiding him in its use. His ability allows him to create especially vulnerable spots on a target's body and after striking that area with his sword, he does considerable damage.
This doesn’t just apply to living beings, as his sword also helps him attack weak spots in non-living things and open areas.
11 Gakuganji’s Guitar
Despite being one of the most senior figures in the Jujutsu world, Gakuganji’s weapon of choice largely contrasts with his elderly appearance. He uses a red electric guitar that would normally be associated with more free-spirited individuals in their younger years, but he boldly slings it over his shoulder when it’s time for battle.
The guitar works like a regular instrument but its sounds are amplified by principal Gakuganji’s body, releasing waves of cursed energy at his opponents.
10 Split Soul Katana
This cursed tool can transcend physical barriers and penetrate the soul of any living or non-living entity. The true potential of the Split Soul Katana can only be unlocked by an individual who possesses the ability to sense the spirits of inanimate objects.
Toji Fushiguro, on his mission to assassinate Riko Amanai, frequently employed the Split Soul Katana. During a battle, he used the weapon to fend off one of Suguru Geto's curses, tearing apart a colossal worm-like creature from the inside out with ease. He also utilized the blade to slice through the Rainbow Dragon, the most resilient of Geto's cursed spirits at the time. Later on, Maki Zenin, armed with a replica of the Split Soul Katana crafted by Mai Zenin, embarked on a mission of vengeance against the Zenin clan.
9 Slaughter Demon
The first cursed weapon to make an appearance in the anime is the Slaughter Demon. This sharp combat knife has a wide-edged blade featuring two holes and bandages at its base. It is especially effective in severing the limbs of cursed spirits, and it is imbued with cursed energy such that even non-sorcerers can use it to exorcise curses.
Originally owned by Maki Zenin, the Slaughter Demon was borrowed by Satoru Gojo and then lent to his new student, Yuji Itadori, to aid him in fending off curses during his first field test. Despite lacking his own stores of cursed energy, the short blade provided Yuji with an advantage in combating cursed spirits.
8 Black Blade
The Black Blade is Megumi Fushiguro's primary cursed tool. Due to the blade’s lightweight and concealable design, Megumi can store it in his shadow along with his other weapons. Hanami comments that with regard to cutting power and durability, the Black Blade is superior to Kasumi Miwa's katana.
During the battle with Hanami, Megumi wields the Black Blade with great speed and accuracy, using it to strike the cursed spirit twice. He also uses it to easily tear down multiple heads of the Yasohachi Bridge curse. The blade's durability is further demonstrated when Maki Zenin uses it to hold back the toughest special-grade cursed spirits in Japan.
7 Dragon-Bone
Dragon-Bone is a cursed tool created by Juzo Kumiya and is considered to be his finest creation. This cursed tool has the unique ability to store and release both kinetic force and cursed energy, allowing the user to propel the blade at their command, resulting in unparalleled cutting power.
Maki Zenin acquired Dragon-Bone after Master Tengen revealed the location of Juzo's workshop. With Kumiya's greatest weapon in her possession, as well as a sword gifted by Mai, Maki was able to single-handedly dismantle the entire Zenin clan.
6 Chain Of A Thousand Miles
The Chain of a Thousand Miles is a special-grade cursed tool wielded by Toji Fushiguro. This chain possesses the ability to infinitely extend its length, provided that its back end remains hidden from sight. To achieve this, Toji maintains a pace that surpasses human perception and conceals one end of the chain within the cursed spirit where he stores his other tools.
The chain can function as a blunt-force weapon or be used in combination with other tools. During Toji's second encounter with Satoru Gojo, he attached the end of the chain to the Inverted Spear of Heaven, another special-grade cursed tool, increasing the latter's offensive potency. Toji unleashed the chain, causing the ground to rupture and release a barrage of debris toward Satoru.
5 Festering Life Sword
This truly terrifying weapon is the signature cursed tool of the special grade cockroach curse, Kurourushi. The Festering Life has a unique cleaver-like shape and a grotesque design that is fitting for an insect to wield. Its most prominent feature is the six distinct firing barrels located on the front of the blade, which can launch close-range projectiles at its target with ease.
The Festering Life Sword is capable of infecting its opponents with small eggs that hatch into insect-like curses shortly after being embedded into the target's skin. The blade can also directly slash the target, spawning the same insect-like curses from the wound.
4 Black Rope
The Black Rope is a cursed tool of unparalleled strength, created and utilized by Miguel's sorcerer clan in Africa for decades. This tool is infused with a powerful cursed technique that rivals even the strength of special-grade cursed tools. The Black Rope possesses the ability to disturb and nullify the effects of cursed techniques.
Miguel demonstrated the potential of the Black Rope during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. He expertly wielded the cursed tool, successfully disrupting Satoru Gojo's Limitless jujutsu and allowing him to land physical attacks on Gojo's body, a feat that is nearly impossible for most of Gojo’s adversaries.
3 Playful Cloud
Several skilled sorcerers have utilized playful Cloud. This unique tool is composed of a three-section staff connected by three rings at the joints. Unlike other “special grade” cursed tools, the Playful Cloud has no cursed technique and is basically a physical tool. However, this does not make it any less powerful.
Due to its nature, Playful Cloud is best for those who might be low on cursed energy but more physically powerful. The power of this cursed tool is proportional to the wielder’s physical ability.
2 Sword of Extermination
The Sword of Extermination is undoubtedly one of the most powerful weapons in the Jujutsu Kaisen world. This blade is unlike other cursed tools since it isn't imbued with a cursed technique but coated in positive energy, rendering it a natural enemy to cursed spirits.
Divine General Mahoraga, the powerful shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique, has the Sword of Extermination attached to its right forearm. During the Shibuya Incident Arc, the General's attack on the king of curses, Sukuna, could have been lethal if it were not for Yuji's human body protecting Sukuna.
1 Inverted Spear of Heaven
The Inverted Spear of Heaven, wielded by the formidable Toji Fushiguro, is an unparalleled special-grade cursed tool in terms of nullifying cursed techniques. Shaped like a jitte dagger, this weapon is infused with a cursed technique that harnesses a unique foreign type of cursed energy.
As soon as it comes into contact with a cursed technique or its user, the Inverted Spear automatically nullifies the technique altogether. It can even bring down Satoru Gojo’s powerful cursed technique, Limitless. Furthermore, during Gojo's Past Arc, Toji Fushiguro utilized the Inverted Spear of Heaven to defeat Satoru Gojo himself.