New Shadow Style: Simple Domain (シン・
Description
During the height of jujutsu in the Heian Era, Sadatsuna Ashiya created the "domain for the weak" in order to protect his followers from evil curses and curse users.[1] Binding vows were established that forbid teaching Simple Domain to outsiders, but other sorcerers saw the technique in action and were able to copy it for themselves, something the bindings did not account for.[2]
Created as a counter for domain expansions, Simple Domain neutralizes a domain's guaranteed-hit function by affecting its barrier and not the imbued cursed technique.[3] However, against a proper domain expansion, Simple Domain can only hope to buy its user time. Powerful domains can destroy simple domains within seconds.[4]
Simple Domains can be customized with different rules and binding vows to affect those within it, both caster and target.[5][6]
Simple Domain can also be used offensively. There are also several swordsmanship techniques within the New Shadow Style that operate around countering anyone who enters the range of the user's Simple Domain.[7]
Usage
Simple Domain was originally meant to be passed down through Sadatsuna Ashiya's school of thought and was forbidden to spread to outsiders. However, in the modern age, several sorcerers with no relation possess the ability to use Simple Domain. Kasumi Miwa was taught by her mentor in Junior High[8] and Aoi Todo, who doesn't come from a sorcerer family, learned from Yuki Tsukumo.[9]
Kasumi Miwa
Kasumi Miwa's Simple Domain creates a domain beneath her feet that spans a 2.21-meter radius. Anyone who enters her domain will be intercepted automatically by her Batto Sword Drawing technique. If both her feet leave their original position from when the domain was cast, Kasumi's technique ends.[10] It is her main form of combat and was first showcased during the Goodwill Event.
Yuji Itadori stumbled into Kasumi's domain when the Kyoto Team attacked him. However, Yuji's advanced speed allowed him to completely avoid Kasumi's automatic counter.[11] She also used Simple Domain in her jujutsu battle with Maki Zenin, but it was once again countered by superior speed and athleticism.[12]
When the Kyoto team ambushed Pseudo-Geto, Kasumi managed to get behind him and unleash Batto Sword Drawing. Even though she puts everything she had into the attack, Geto effortlessly destroyed her sword with his bare hands and used Maximum: Uzumaki at point-blank range.[13]
During the raid against Sukuna, when he activated an incomplete Malevolent Shrine, Kasumi arrived on the battlefield and used Simple Domain to protect Maki from the brunt of the slashes.[14]
Kuchisake-Onna
Kuchisake-Onna can cast a Simple Domain that freezes time and enforces a binding vow of non-violence between her and her target until her question "Am I pretty?" is answered. Once the question is answered, time resumes and Kuchisake-Onna can attack with her scissors, conjuring numerous shears around the target.
Kuchisake-Onna used her Simple Domain when summoned by Suguru Geto to battle Toji Fushiguro. When she asked her question, Toji responded that she wasn't his type, causing her to conjure large shears around his body. However, the Sorcerer Killer effortlessly deflected them all with the Inverted Spear of Heaven before they could do lasting damage.[15]
Kokichi Muta
Kokichi Muta was unable to cast Simple Domain himself but he was able to imbue the technique into mechanical tubes. Using the Technique Charge function of Ultimate Mechamaru Mode: Absolute, Kokichi could use his giant armored puppet to cast the technique.
Mechamaru was able to shift the fingers on its right hand into gun barrels or spikes capable of injecting Simple Domain's effect into Kokichi's target. In Mahito's case, being hit with a projectile containing Simple Domain affected his soul because it neutralized his Idle Transfiguration technique upon detonation. Kokichi was also able to use it to protect the cockpit from Mahito's Self-Embodiment of Perfection.[16]
Ui Ui
Ui Ui accompanies Mei Mei in battle because he's responsible for countering domains. He's capable of activating Simple Domain and neutralizing any cursed techniques as long as Mei Mei gives him permission. He did so to counter the Smallpox Deity's Domain Expansion after getting trapped in a coffin. Simple Domain nullified the disease curse's ability to bury the coffin underground with a gravestone, a technique Ui Ui would not have survived.[3]
Atsuya Kusakabe
Atsuya Kusakabe is an elite-level user of the New Shadow Style. He reached the rank of grade 1 despite not having an innate technique thanks to his proficiency in utilizing Simple Domain,[17] which he can use without binding vows and has a wider range than most users.[18] He can use the New Shadow Style swordsmanship techniques to cut down his enemies using different sword-drawing type attacks.[19]
Kusakabe is also capable of using New Shadow Style to effectively block powerful techniques, as he did with Pseudo-Geto's Maximum: Uzumaki to protect his allies.[20]
Kusakabe used Simple Domain to protect himself against Sukuna's slashes, reducing the damage dealt to himself by weakening the cursed technique.[21] He later used it to incorporate Evening Moon Sword Drawing, protecting himself by deflecting Sukuna's slashes and attacking him by including him in its range.[22]
Aoi Todo
Aoi Todo learned to use Simple Domain from his mentor, Yuki Tsukumo. He attempted to use it to nullify the effects of Mahito's Self-Embodiment of Perfection. However, the domain was only deployed for 0.2 seconds, slightly too fast for Aoi to counter.[9]
Rokujushi Miyo
Rokujushi Miyo's Simple Domain creates a sumo wrestling ring where he must receive his opponent's permission to engage in order to complete his barrier. Agreeing to a sumo match avoids the need for any binding vows and results in a pure sumo bout within the simple domain.[23]
As a result of the removal of any binding vows, time flows faster inside Miyo's barrier. The time it took for he and Maki to engage in 1,000 bouts within the domain only amounted to a few seconds outside of it.[24]
Yuki Tsukumo
Yuki Tsukumo could use Simple Domain in addition to having the ability to expand her own domain. She was skilled enough at the technique to pass down her knowledge of it to Aoi Todo, who can also perform the technique. While Yuki can use simple domain to neutralize a can't-miss attack within a domain, it only bought her a few short seconds against a powerful domain such as Kenjaku's Womb Profusion.[25]
Satoru Gojo
Satoru Gojo was a natural genius who learned Simple Domain but could not teach it to others. He was forced to use it after his domain was broken by Sukuna. He activated simple domain while simultaneously using reverse cursed technique to heal himself. Gojo's barrier was quickly destroyed by Sukuna's domain and he was struck by his sure-hit effect. He conjured another simple domain shortly after and improvised healing his exhausted technique with reverse cursed technique rather than himself.[26]
Yuji Itadori
Yuji Itadori learned how to use Simple Domain in the one month before the final battle against Sukuna by swapping souls with Atsuya Kusakabe during replacement training.[27] He used this anti-domain technique to defend himself against Sukuna's impromptu Malevolent Shrine, which was able to resist against the domain expansion for almost 99 seconds before being stripped away.[28]
Takuma Ino & Choso
Like Yuji, Takuma Ino and Choso learned how to use Simple Domain in the one month before the battle with Sukuna. They also used the technique to defend themselves from Sukuna's impromptu Malevolent Shrine.[29]
New Shadow Style Techniques
References
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 82 (p. 6) and Episode 31.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook: (p. 144).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 102 (p. 14) and Episode 38.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 206 (pp. 4, 7, 9).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 73 (p. 10) and Episode 28.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 196 (pp. 1-2).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 40 (p. 5) and Episode 17.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 134 (p. 7) and Episode 46.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 130 (p. 2) and Episode 45.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 40 (p. 4) and Episode 17.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 35 (pp. 8-9) and Episode 15.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 40 (pp. 4-8) and Episode 17.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 134 (pp. 7-10) and Episode 46.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 258 (p. 14).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 73 (pp. 8-12) and Episode 28.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 82 (pp. 4-7) and Episode 31.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 88 (p. 8) and Episode 32.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 254 (pp. 5-6).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 115 (p. 9) and Episode 40.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 134 (pp. 10-12) and Episode 46.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 246 (pp. 3-4).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 254 (pp. 1-4, 8-9).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 196 (pp. 1-2).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 197 (p. 2).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 206 (pp. 7, 9).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 226 (pp. 9-14, 17).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 258 (p. 9).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 258 (pp. 10-11, 17).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 258 (p. 15).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 40 (p. 5) and Episode 17.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 254 (pp. 2-3).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 254 (p. 15-16).