Shonen Jump's Wildest Series Makes Jujutsu Kaisen's Curses Much Weirder
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Dandadan chapter 60!
The wildest series in Shonen Jump, Dandadan, just gave the curses in Jujutsu Kaisen a much weirder — and even more concise — spin. The move also justifies the use of one of the series' more random moments.
In Jujutsu Kaisen, cursed spirits or curses are physical beings that have manifested in the human world after a high concentration of negative human emotions have gathered together. Many of Jujutsu Kaisen's strongest curses take a form that's associated with the negative emotions that created them. One of the most obvious examples is Jogo who represents any negative association with volcanoes and other fire-based natural disasters since his head is shaped like a volcano or, more specifically, like Mt. Fuji, and he emits flames.
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In chapter 60 of Dandadan by mangaka Yukinobu Tatsu, readers are introduced to thought-forms or tulpas. The only types of tulpas readers have seen so far are bobblehead-like versions of famous composers. They represent the collective fears that people have of certain portraits in a school's music room. Each tulpa represents one of the portraits in the classroom and looks exactly like the composer pictured there except for having an abnormally large head. They are also quite volatile, viciously attacking series protagonists Okarun and Aira with music because the two heroes were foolishly training in their music room. Dandadan is famous for using random moments to hide its genius, and this is no exception.
In comparison to the cursed spirits in Jujutsu Kaisen, Dandadan's tulpas are much weirder. Composers aren't normally associated with something people fear and seeing them act
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