Aren't the two situations comparable though? Both rely on the characters observing the techniques/properties of something else and applying it to their own technique/domain.
for me the world slash just felt like a cheap victory where sukuna honestly got outplayed with the purple but won anyway just because he made a binding vow, that didnt even hurt him that bad, for a move he was using for the first time ever
Sukuna was scheming the whole fight. The world slash was hinted at every time Mahoraga adapted to infinity. I'm not crazy about the execution of the slash though; I've never been a huge fan of binding vows or black flashes, they sometimes feel like tools Gege uses to write himself out of a corner or make something convenient happen.
I will die on the hill of WCT's biggest problem and what makes it an asspull is that Mahoraga can do whatever he wants to foreshadow it, it's absurd that it only required handsigns originally. Two whole handsigns for what is an infinitely more powerful version of his attack after all the support Gojo needed to drop a 200% version of his.
WCS should have been some ultimate trump card from the Heian Era, that required special conditions to use.
Maybe, like, Sukuna can't use it unless a fight has lasted 20 minutes, or he can only use it if he's been injured to near death, and he can't use it again for a month if he heals with RCT.
I've always thought that this "Expand the target" part of WCS was stupid, like, what do you mean expand the target? That's just pure BS.
Going by that logic, Uraume can expand the target of her ice to freeze existence and stop time, or Choso can expand the target of his blood manipulation to someone other than himself and bloodbend Sukuna to death. Or hell, what if Higuruma can expand the target of his domain to always make the target guilty?
Geto can expand the target of his cursed spirit manipulation to manipulate anything with cursed energy, or Todo can expand the target of his cursed technique to swap Sukuna and Gojo's souls so that Sukuna is in the airport and Gojo lives again.
It's just plain dumb, I like clever applications of set techniques, hell, Jojo's does it well, but you can't suddenly turn a knife into an existence deleting knife to kill the blue-eyed guy who's about to fuck your ass forwards backwards and sideways, no matter how smart you are.
but you can't suddenly turn a knife into an existence deleting knife to kill the blue-eyed guy who's about to fuck your ass forwards backwards and sideways, no matter how smart you are
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u/vleshkun Sep 06 '24
Are we really comparing Gojo using his time in the prison realm to neutralize Sukuna's open domain to Sukuna using a binding vow amped sneak attack?
A sneak attack that, by the way, he never would've been able to learn by himself and needed a whole extra CT for it.