As it turns out, Toji is quite adept at using Playful Cloud. But how? The nunchucks belong to Maki so he shouldn't be proficient with them. Geto in Volume 0 pulls it out of a cursed spirit that can store items in its belly. This is the same spirit that Toji originally had, meaning that he probably was the original owner before Maki got her hands on it.
Think that Megumi becoming the next head of the Zenin clan came out of nowhere? The Shibuya Incident arc showed Toji talking to Naobito about selling Megumi to the Zenin. Toji offers him a price but Naobito increases it if Megumi has an inherited technique. Clearly, he values that and since nobody else inherited it...
This is further compounded by the fact that apparently a member of the Zenin clan (with the Ten Shadows technique) and one of the Gojo clan (with Six Eyes and Limitless) killed each other in a fight. If the technique can hold itself against that, then it is worthy of the next leader.
Not just the Zenin clan's next leader, but specifically its next leader under the condition that Gojo is incapacitated at the time of Naobito's death. Evidently, Naobito understood that the Ten Shadows Technique was only of the few things capable of matching a Limitless user with the Six Eyes, and knew that they would need one as the next leader to survive whatever was able of stopping Gojo. He also likely gave Megumi ownership of the clan's cursed weapons because he knew that they would likely be sorely needed to arm the sorcerers against whatever stopped Gojo. Unfortunately for his plans, the rest of the Zenin clan was too shortsighted to understand the necessity of his action, especially his own brothers and son.
Sukuna being able to use Mahoraga without going through the ritual to defeat it has had some complain it comes out of nowhere. Only Sukuna did defeat it back in Shibuya. By defeating Mahoraga back in Shibuya, and then Body Surfing into Megumi and gaining control of the Ten Shadow Technique, Sukuna essentially fulfilled the correct steps, just in a different order.
Gojo's Digimon allegory, while it makes sense with Tengen, also makes sense with Geto, as one of the other top examples with the type of evolution he alluded to when it comes do Dark Digivolution comes from Digimon Tamers' Megidramon, which occurred after Takato forced his partner to evolve to get revenge after the death of a beloved Digimon which resulted in the Digimon becoming nigh apocalyptic. Not unlike what happened after Geto had to endure both the loss of a fellow sorcerer and Riko and deciding to go about his genocide on humanity, only to result in a long string of apocalyptic events that is the story.
Jogo's views on his fellow Curses being "True Humans" due to being made of humanity's negative emotions/Cursed Energy didn't make sense to me at first. His claims that negative emotions are the only true/genuine parts of the human spirit sounded like selective obliviousness, given that positive emotions can be just as honest and genuine as negative emotions. Then it hit me. Jogo and all other Curse Spirits are made of Cursed Energy, i.e. negative emotions. It wasn't that he was ignoring evidence that he wasn't completely correct, it's that he and other Cursed Spirits literally can't comprehend or sense positive emotions. On top of that, a Curse's understanding of negative emotions would logically be incomplete due to lacking a frame of reference or understanding of corresponding positive emotions.
Not sure if the pun translates at all, but Takako Uro forming "clothing" out of the sky around her fits nicely with the concept of "skyclad" which is what some pagan practitioners call doing ceremonies in the nude.
Nanami is obviously supposed to be a Good Counterpart to Yoshikage Kira of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, a creep with an obsessive hand fetish, so it's funny and kind of fitting that he keeps having trouble with Mahito, another sicko who makes a bunch of giant hands when pulling out his trump card.
As the Culling Game showed us, sorcerers and Curse Users from previous eras (such as the Heian and Meji) are for the most part stronger than modern day sorcerers. This may seem confusing to some, but there are two possible reasons why:
1. Tengen's barriers strengthened over time, in order to hold back the birth of new curses. In addition to people growing less and less superstitious and fearful of the natural world, resulting in curses growing weaker, the abilities of sorcerers also declined due to either their own capabilities being weakened by the barriers or by there being less dangerous curses over time, as well as Curse Users being less able to fight openly when normal people gain more access to personal defense.
2. Jujutsu Society's leadership are ultraconservative traditionalists who value more "traditional" Curse Techniques over techniques that are more modern in aesthetic and mechanics, such as Hakari's Private Pure Love Train, which is a factor in how he's able to fight the reincarnated sorcerers. On top of being (mostly) being concerned with their own selfish agendas versus the greater good, the higher ups are reactionaries who are against their society progressing, effectively causing Jujutsu to stagnate. Ironically, their fixation on tradition and the past makes modern sorcerers on average weaker than the sorcerers of the past who were the basis of said traditions.
Sukuna's single minded hatred towards Yuji gains further reasoning following the second part of the Shinjuku Showdown. Sukuna reflects on why he isn't excited by Yuji's progression into a greater challenge, namely that Sukuna doesn't have ideals, long term goals, dreams, and aspirations in addition to being a narcissistic sociopath to an extreme degree prevented him from seeing others as either food, entertainment, or a tool. However, being contained in Yuji's body gave him a firsthand experience in understanding how another person thinks and feels. He was forced to see that Yuji was his polar opposite, someone stronger than others yet extremely selfless and humble about his own capabilities who prevented Sukuna from being free to go on a new reign of terror. This challenged his own beliefs in a way that he couldn't deflect and experienced just how indestructible Yuji's will is. Put simply, Sukuna was forced to feel a smidgen of genuine empathy for once in his life and he's extremely pissy about it!
Sukuna's reincarnation. Sukuna himself has said that as long as one of his 20 fingers exist, he can always be reborn. Which can only mean that, while it's implied later in the series that Itadori was born as some pre-destined vessel for the curse, anyone who ate one the fingers could have become Sukuna's vessel. And Yuji at least is a mentally healthy, morally sound individual that goes out of his way to resist Sukuna's influence, imagine the hell Sukuna could unleash with a more weak-willed or morally flexible host...
Probably the first indicator we got that Gojo was going to lose his grudge match with Sukuna comes from the opening moves. Using Ijichi's barrier, with Utahime's technique, and Gakuganji's musical abilities for support, Gojo opens the fight with a 200% Hollow Purple from miles away to snipe at Sukuna. This is Gojo's best move, which is already an unbelievably powerful spell, at 200% output and Sukuna tanked it. One of many small hints of the King of Curses ungodly level of power is the fact that he tanked a move that disintegrates matter and only lost his arms, which he was able to regrow immediately.
During Kenjaku's meeting at the Whitehouse, where he demonstrated his Curse Technique's power via the Elephant God Curse, we see that the Curse in question looks like an evil mockery of Ganesha. What kind of people, or even world, would have enough negative emotions directed to a benevolent deity to create a cursed spirit in their likeness?
