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  2. Ryomen Sukuna - Wikipedia

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    Ryomen Sukuna (Japanese: 両面 宿儺, Hepburn: Ryōmen Sukuna) is a fictional character and one of the central antagonists of the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen created by Gege Akutami. A Heian Era sorcerer, he was once known notoriously as the King of Curses and well known as the greatest Sorcerer to ever live. Although originally ...

  3. Jujutsu Kaisen (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦, rgh. "Sorcery Battle") [b] is a Japanese anime television series produced by MAPPA, based on the manga series of the same name by Gege Akutami.The story follows high school student Yuji Itadori as he joins a secret organization of Jujutsu Sorcerers to eliminate a powerful Curse named Ryomen Sukuna, of whom Yuji becomes the host.

  4. Sokushinbutsu - Wikipedia

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    In medieval Japan, this tradition developed a process for sokushinbutsu, which a monk completed over about 3,000 days. [8] It involved a strict diet called mokujiki (literally, ' eating a tree ' ). [ 10 ] [ 9 ] The monk abstained from any cereals and relied on pine needles, resins, and seeds found in the mountains, which would eliminate all fat ...

  5. Yuji Itadori - Wikipedia

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    Sukuna's defeat was praised by ScreenRant for no longer expanding the final Shinjuku arc anymore as Sukuna kept developing new transformations in the climax. [38] The fact that Yuji showed both mercy and violence to Sukuna made ScreenRant showed mixed reactions to the protagonist's feelings involving his final enemy and series' ending. [39]

  6. Yamata no Orochi - Wikipedia

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    Two other Japanese examples derive from Buddhist importations of Indian dragon myths. Benzaiten, the Japanese form of Saraswati, supposedly killed a five-headed dragon at Enoshima in 552. Kuzuryū (九頭龍, "nine-headed dragon"), deriving from the nagarajas (snake-kings) Vasuki and Shesha, is worshipped at Togakushi Shrine in Nagano Prefecture.

  7. Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 - Wikipedia

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    Sukuna confronts Megumi and rips Yuji's heart out so that if they switch back, Yuji will die while Sukuna will still control the body. Sukuna defeats Megumi but is intrigued by his potential. Megumi explains that his will to save others came after seeing his sister fall into a coma from a cursed spirit and that he does not regret saving Yuji.

  8. Japanese actress Sei Ashina found dead in her Tokyo ... - AOL

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    Japanese actress Sei Ashina has died at age 36, her agency confirmed in a statement. Ashina was born in Fukushima in 1983. In 2007 she was cast as the Japanese lead in “Silk,” an arthouse ...

  9. Fujiwara clan - Wikipedia

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    There was great interest in graceful poetry and vernacular literature. Japanese writing had long depended on Chinese ideograms , but these were now supplemented by kana, two types of phonetic Japanese script: katakana, a mnemonic device using parts of Chinese ideograms; and hiragana, a cursive form of kanji writing and an art form in itself.