Summary
There are a lot of crazy things happening during the Culling Game, but one of the most surprising ones isthe existence of the reincarnated sorcerers.Not only do they turn out to be extremely powerful, they are ruthless as well. The number of innocent people and professional sorcerers alike that they have decimated is easily in the hundreds.
Interestingly enough, there’s hardly any explanation about these mysterious reincarnated sorcerers inJujutsu Kaisen. They just appeared out of nowhere one day and started rampaging all over the Culling Game’s colonies. That being said, there are some clues scattered throughout the series. So from how they come to be to their roles in the story, here’s all you need to know about the Reincarnated Sorcerers.
Release Date
June 25, 2025
As the name suggests, the Reincarnated Sorcerers are jujutsu sorcerers of the past who are revived in this modern world. The mastermind behind this strange phenomenon is none other thanthe immortal villain, Kenjaku.He is the one who brings back these powerful, bloodthirsty, and battle-crazed sorcerers to do his evil bidding.
July 29, 2025
One of the most crucial parts ofthe fascinating ritual to bring back the dead sorcererof the past into this modern era is consent. With that in mind, here are the main reasons why they gave their consent to somebody as sinister and deceitful as Kenjaku:
The Culling Game introduced quite a few powerful reincarnated sorcerers. Out of all of them, here are some of the most notable ones:
Although reviving people who’ve been dead for hundreds, some even thousands, of years ago seems like a complicated and otherworldly task, it’s actually quite straightforward. Here are the steps that Kenjaku has taken to complete the reincarnation ritual.
A Verbal Consent
As mentioned earlier, one of the most important requirements of the reincarnation ritual is consent. Kenjaku can only revive jujutsu sorcerers who have explicitly agreed to be reincarnated. To this end, he spent thousands of years roaming around Japan to convince countless powerful sorcerers to join his sinister ritual, but only a handful of them agreed to his proposal.If not for this limitation,Kenjaku would’ve surely brought back hundreds, if not thousands, of past sorcerers to participate in his Culling Game.
Turning Into Cursed Objects Upon Death
After he receives their verbal consent, the next step is to wait for the sorcerer to die. Whether they died from natural causes or fell on a battlefield, the next step of the ritual remains the same. Kenjaku will turn the corpse of the sorcerer into a cursed object, just like how he turned Sukuna’s soul intoa special-grade cursed objectin the form of twenty fingers. Unfortunately, there’s no information regarding the exact method of how Kenjaku turns a sorcerer into a cursed object.
“The cursed objects that I provided are what’s left of the sorcerers with whom I painstakingly made vows a millennium ago”
– Kenjaku, Chapter 136
A Suitable Vessel
A couple of years before the intended incarnation ritual, Kenjaku begins to travel the country to look for a suitable vessel for the past sorcerer’s soul. Once he finds a suitable vessel,he puts a curse on themthat will immediately put them in a state of coma. After that, he will make them swallow the suitable cursed object, which is the embodiment of the past sorcerer’s soul. These innocent people will stay in this vegetative state until Kenjaku begins the Reawakening ritual.
Reawakening
In the middle ofhis battle with Yuji Itadori, Yuki Tsukumo, and Choso, Kenjaku casts a spellthat triggers the curse that he has placed on numerous innocent people throughout the country. Once this curse is activated, the soul of the past sorcerer immediately takes over the body and suppresses the soul of the original body. They gain knowledge and information regarding the modern era through the vessel’s memories while maintaining their original cursed energy and innate techniques. At this point, the reincarnation ritual is complete.
July 16, 2025
Now that the past sorcerers have freely roamed around and started hunting, killing, and rampaging across the colonies, let’s pull back for a second and talk about the roles of these reincarnated individuals in the story.
The first official role of the Reincarnated Sorcerers is to be the participants of the Culling Game. In order to gather enough Cursed Energy through the Culling Game, Kenjaku needs a bloodbath, especially between individuals with high levels of cursed energy. Unfortunately, there are not enough jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits in this modern era. So to spice things up and fasten the process, Kenjaku decided to awaken normal people who have the potential to wield Cursed Energy,such as Hiromi Higuruma,and revive the powerful sorcerers of the past.
June 19, 2025
As the story gets closer to the end of the Culling Game, the roles of the remaining reincarnated begin to shift. Rather than fighting among themselves and taking out other Culling Game players, they are now working together with Yuji and his friends in their attempt to defeat Sukuna.
The two reincarnated sorcerers who have joined forces with Yuji’s side are Angel and Hajime Kashimo. Hajime wants to prove that he is better than Sukuna, while Angel’s main mission has always been to kill Sukuna. Since both parties happen to have the same objective, they decided to diverge from their original role as Kenjaku’s pawns and focus on finding waysto defeat the King of Cursesinstead.
Jujutsu Kaisenis available to stream onCrunchyroll.
Jujutsu Kaisen
Based on Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga, Mappa’s battle shonen anime envisions a world where Jujutsu Sorcerers battle against entities born out of Cursed Energy. One day, a teenager named Yuji Itadori is dragged into this conflict when he eats a possessed finger.
