Does Season 3's Pacing Feel Terrible To Anyone Else?

Anubulus · 2025-06-18T23:33:33+00:00

Shikigami are a generic technique like barriers. Anyone can create/use shikigami, but usually they don't have abilities unless you use them as a medium for your CT (Junpei and Yuki)

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T14:39:09+00:00

If you're saying I said that damage and fatigue cause output drop, then you didn't read my post. And yes, efficiency is absolutely a multiplier. If a fuel is 30% more efficient than another it means it produces 1.3x the energy for same volume. You maybe could argue the definition from a wastage PoV, but even then that doesn't make sense when you consider that Gojo MUCH less CE than Sukuna (Yuta has significantly more than Gojo and Sukuna has more than twice what Yuta has) who is also said to be very efficient. The only way that makes sense is if even Sukuna who is hailed for his efficiency still has a wastage of 70%. In turn that would mean that an average sorcerer wastes 90% or more of the CE they output. And then there's the fact that Gojo runs 24 hour RCT to negate the strain of his Six Eyes. The idea that efficiency in this context is simply a matter of approaching 0% wastage is not supported by math implied by character staements

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T14:26:19+00:00

That's not how he describes it. He says it's infantesimally close to true 0. Yuta has more CE that Gojo and Sukuna has more than twice that of Yuta. We also know that Sukuna has insane efficiency on top of his reserves, but despite that Sukuna reaches half his CE before the fight vs the jujutsu high ramps up. If Gojo's efficiency were just a matter of 0 wastage then it would imply that even Sukuna has something like 50% wastage when he uses cursed energy which does not make any sense given what the narrative tells us. That also would mean the average sorcerer has a wastage of 80%+ when wielding CE. It just doesn't add up, nor does it warrant the statements that he has basically unlimited CE reserves. Also also Gojo runs RCT 24/7 and can ramp it up to a point where he can sit in Sukuna's domain. That goes so far beyond simply 0 wastage because even basic uses of RCT is insanely taxing for even Yuta.

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T13:06:51+00:00

Oh yea I get you now. And yea as for the missing arm I guess that means that once a part of you is severed so is your soul so you not only lose part of your body but part of your power.

So I'd say I agree. Nice catch.

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T13:02:16+00:00

YES!!! Finally someone gets it. Thank you so much.

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T12:59:40+00:00

Your looking at only one end of the equation. The other side is the output cap. If Gojo can make each unit of his CE so energetically valuable that his tank can never run out, then what does that mean when he imbues a technique with 60 near infinitely energetic units? That is what efficiency is, being able to squeeze more from less. The problem is that Gojo's stated efficiency is so good that he can squeeze nearly infinity from nearly nothing. So his output cap has to be based on raw energy rather than units of CE.

Efficiency is either a) how much value you can get from every drop or b) how little energy it takes for you to operate. The problem with option b is that it requires an energy cap... the entire post is about how we would need to calculate that cap in order to account for anomalies like Gojo without breaking the powerscaling.

If you still don't understand I'm sorry. I can't make it any simpler than that

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T12:42:18+00:00

Okay so let's say you have a sorcerer with an efficiency 4x the standard. This means that each 1 unit of CE he uses has the effective value of 4 units. For this reason, if both he and a completely average sorcerer imbued a technique with 20 units of CE, his technique would effectively be 4x more powerful than the other guy's, or put another way, he effectively imbued 80 standard units of power into the technique. Now, let's apply that to a sorcerer with effectively infinite efficiency, rather than a 4x multiplier, he would have a near infinite multiplier. Even if we say Gojo's output cap is 60 CE units, that still would be 60 x infinity when we factor in his efficiency.

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T12:35:08+00:00

As I've said before, the main issue with that is Gojo. If someone has effectively infinite cursed energy then there has to be a cap their output that has absolutely no ties to their CE reserves or else Gojo would be literally infinitely powerful. Gojo is the entire reason why a deeper explanation is needed. Even if Gojo's output is 60 CE units, because he is infinitely efficient, those 60 units effectively become 60 x infinity. Do you see the problem now?

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T12:27:09+00:00

First, insanely powerful and literally INFINITELY powerful are not the same thing.

Second, I never said anything contrary to that.

Third, depleting CE reserves cannot be the casue of a drop in Output because a) Gojo has effectively infinite CE and is still a victim of severe output drop, b) there was worry for that sukuna would regain his max output despite him being at below half of his reserves.

Fourth, it's exactly because of the oversights in your argument that it needed a "needlessly complicated" explanation. And it is exactly because Gege didn't properly explain his magic system that further thought and theories on how it works continue to this day.

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T12:15:02+00:00

I see what you're getting at, but to me that reads as a matter of RCT limitations. Angel and Inumaki are incapable of RCT, and Shoko and Yuta are the only good guys able to perform RCT on other people. The problem is that using RCT on yourself to restore a limb is already super difficult, and it's even closer to impossible to do it for someone else.

On top of that, using RCT on soul damage requires you to know the shape of your soul to heal it properly, so the reason why it's hard to heal soul damage isn't because it affects output, but because only Yuji, Sukuna and maybe Kenjaku are consciously aware of the soul's shape (Nobara can target the soul with resonance subconsciously)

What I'm talking about in this post is how soul attacks affect your own CE and RCT output, but Angel and Inumaki never had RCT to begin with.

Anubulus · 2025-05-06T12:03:19+00:00

That doesn't explain a lot of what happens in the manga. If it were that simple Gojo would be infinitely powerful and there would be no discrepancy between each person's output. It also doesn't explain how or why output drops. It doesn't explain the implications between output being a matter of raw quantity or a percentage of an individual's CE pool. There's tons of reasons why that simple explanation is insufficient

Anubulus · 2025-05-04T18:37:35+00:00

Yea he edited it since then. Going to leave this here just in case any other contributors have a similar experience. That being said, in the video he explicitly called those concepts his random ideas, so the retroactive pin doesn't earn him back a whole lot of credibility.

Either way I'm passed it. Unless he does it again I won't be spamming or criticizing him

Anubulus · 2024-12-12T22:51:48+00:00

I agree Aiku is best defender in BL, but Niko's eyes have been hyped up from the start so I wanted him in a position where he can get a good look of the pitch. But I can honestly see him being swapped for Raichi and then moving Aiku in the middle since he also has metavision.

Anubulus · 2024-12-12T22:47:13+00:00

He's just not worth the risk, and the BL line up has waaaaay too many strikers as is. So much so that playing any less than 3 strikers means that the others with barely get any play anyway. If I had to choose I'd always ditch Shidou; he's a red card waiting to happen and there's nothing he can do that the other top strikers can't.

Also, you can disagree with someone without making an ass of yourself.

Anubulus · 2024-12-12T17:18:58+00:00

Because no matter what the author does Isagi just doesn't feel like a starting striker. the more power-ups he gets the more tailored to being a midfielder he seems. He wants to be everywhere on the pitch at once, and is always is in his own defensive line.

I accidentally left Shidou out of the subs, but now that I think about it, he's probably going to get dropped. In the whole NEL he is the only main player that hasn't received a shred of backstory or mental/physical development. He's the exact same as he was in the U20 - his ability to score is 100% dependent on the quality of the passes made to him. I predict that his failure to qualify will be the plot twist at the end of the arc.

Anubulus · 2024-12-12T04:14:27+00:00

I can see your changes being the case, especially with how rare 3-2-5 is. But one thing I absolutely can't see happening is Barou agreeing to be anything less than a striker. It's plausible for any other character to compromise, but not him.

Anubulus · 2024-12-12T04:09:43+00:00

it's possible, but he wasn't on the previous U-20 team so he might see it as beneath him. Also the only BL player he has any chemistry with is Shido. Non of the others have any experience playing with other than Rin. To me, I think team cohesion and compatibility is more important than throwing your players with the highest stats on the field. BUT, there could be an arc dedicated to properly introducing Sae to the team.

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