Domain Amplification (
Description
The user wraps themselves thinly in a domain unimbued with a cursed technique, allowing them to pour an opponent's technique into the empty space and negate it on contact. This means an attack with amplification will always land regardless of the opponent's technique.[1] It will negate any technique it encounters and weaken the sure-hit effect imbued into opposing domains as well.[2]
For example, an amplification user can neutralize the Infinity by allowing the Limitless technique to flow into the domain on contact. While similar to simple domain, amplification is more refined. It has the potential to negate an opposing technique and doesn't require binding vows to use proficiently.[3][2][4][1]
Satoru Gojo compares the feeling of his technique being negated by amplification to the initial pushback of a domain clash. The user can feel their sure-hit effect is weakened but they can still neutralize their opponent's technique. Amplification exploits these mechanics by purposely removing the sure-hit effect altogether to achieve the same result.[3]
Amplification's primary drawback is that an innate technique cannot be activated at the same time, limiting the user to relying on hand-to-hand combat.[3][5][2][1] An elite sorcerer like Sukuna can use amplification while his domain is also expanded because his technique is imbued in the domain, allowing him to access it whilst utilizing amplification.[6]
Usage
Jogo & Hanami
Satoru Gojo believes Jogo and Hanami learned to use domain amplification from a curse user, likely Pseudo-Geto. During their battle with Satoru on the Fukutoshin Line Platform in Shibuya, Jogo and Hanami used domain amplification. It was powerful enough to include a sure-hit factor but they refrained from doing so to free up the necessary capacity to pour in Satoru's Limitless technique and neutralize Infinity.[7][2]
Satoru claimed that if barrier techniques box their target in, domain amplification surrounds them with water that emulates the feeling of pushing back against a domain.[8] To counter, Satoru deactivated Limitless to lure Hanami into activating their innate technique. Unable to use amplification at the same time, Hanami was instantly vulnerable to Satoru's offense. He also countered their amplification by strengthening his Limitless technique and exorcised the weakened Hanami by crushing them into dust at close range.[9]
Sukuna
Sukuna used domain amplification to engage Satoru Gojo in close combat during their showdown in Shinjuku. He employed it in the same fashion as Jogo and Hanami, using amplification to neutralize the Infinity. While he cannot activate amplification and his technique at the same time, Sukuna can switch seamlessly between them with precise cursed energy control.[10]
Sukuna can use amplification inside his expanded domain. This is how he engaged Satoru when they clashed while their sure-hit effects were canceling each other out inside the domains. Sukuna's innate technique is imbued into the domain, allowing him to use it and amplification around his body simultaneously.[11]
Using amplification interrupts the process of Sukuna bearing Mahoraga's adaptation and blackens its wheel. Sukuna could still use amplification after losing the ability to expand his domain because it doesn't require a barrier.[12] He minimized the damage of a direct hit from Satoru's Cursed Technique Reversal: Red by using amplification to shield himself at the last moment.[13]
Hiromi Higuruma
After Higuruma was separated from the rest of the sorcerers during their all-out battle against Sukuna, he was attacked by the King of Curses' cursed technique. However, having learned how to perform domain amplification while observing Satoru's showdown against Sukuna,[14] he used the anti-domain technique to neutralize the slashes, mitigating the damage done to him.[15]
Trivia
- Translation Note: "Amplification" as a translation for "Ten'en" (展延?) can be misleading, as amplification equates to enhancement. In this case, Ten'en means to envelop or can be more literally translated to the small-range expansion of a domain as opposed to domain expansion's long-range expansion.
References
- ↑ 1.01.11.21.3 Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook: (p. 143).
- ↑ 2.02.12.22.3 Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 171 (p. 5).
- ↑ 3.03.13.2 Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 84 (p. 12-13) and Episode 32.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 225 (p. 1-2).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 85 (p. 10-12) and Episode 33.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 227 (p. 9).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 84 (p. 10-13) and Episode 32.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 84 (p. 12-13) and Episode 32.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 85 (p. 10-17) and Episode 33.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 225 (p. 10).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 227 (p. 9-14).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 231 (p. 13).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 232 (p. 8-10).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 225 (p. 3).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 246 (p. 20).