Recaps

Madara met Yuji Itadori, sensed Sukuna inside him, and used his Sharingan to enter Itadori’s inner domain and confront the King of Curses. After confirming that Itadori was suppressing Sukuna, Madara planned to stop the upcoming binding vow that could resurrect Itadori.

• Satoru Gojo brought Yuji Itadori to Jujutsu High, and Madara sensed something ominous within him.
• Gojo explained that Itadori had swallowed Sukuna’s Finger and was perfectly suppressing Sukuna, then introduced him to Madara.
• Madara used his Sharingan to enter Itadori’s inner domain, where he met Sukuna and declared that Sukuna’s era was over.
• Madara safely withdrew from the domain and confirmed that Sukuna remained sealed inside Itadori.
• Gojo took Itadori to see Principal Yaga and told Madara he would speak with him that night, while Madara resolved to prevent Itadori from making a binding vow with Sukuna.

Satoru Gojo reflected on the loneliness of being the strongest and felt hopeful that Madara Uchiha could soon stand alongside him. Their conversation turned to Yuji Itadori’s burden and Madara’s progress toward Reverse Cursed Technique, leaving Gojo in unusually high spirits as he went to handle school business.

• Satoru Gojo sat alone by the Training Ground and considered how Madara Uchiha’s strength could soon match his own.
• Madara joined Satoru Gojo for drinks, and they discussed Yuji Itadori’s enrollment and the responsibility he faced as Sukuna’s vessel.
• Satoru Gojo admitted Yuji might die if Sukuna died, but said he believed Yuji was strong enough to endure.
• Madara told Satoru Gojo that he was close to mastering Reverse Cursed Technique, and Satoru Gojo responded with genuine approval.
• Satoru Gojo left to report to the Principal and handle enrollment paperwork, feeling that his loneliness might soon end.

Madara secretly went to the special prison after realizing the mission was a plot to kill Yuji Itadori, while Megumi Fushiguro faced Sukuna after Sukuna tore out Yuji’s heart. Madara watched from nearby, waiting for Megumi to reach the point where he needed help.

• Madara sent a Wood Clone to handle his assigned mission and secretly headed for the special prison.
• Kiyotaka Ijichi drove the injured Nobara Kugisaki away while Megumi Fushiguro stayed behind to wait for Yuji Itadori.
• Sukuna emerged, told Megumi that Yuji could not return, and tore out Yuji’s heart to ensure he would die if he regained control.
• Megumi refused to flee, summoned Nue, and prepared to fight Sukuna so Yuji might have a chance to return.
• Madara watched the confrontation from a nearby rooftop, holding back because he believed Megumi still had room to grow.

Megumi Fushiguro fought Sukuna with Nue and Great Serpent, but Sukuna overwhelmed him and drove him to summon Mahoraga. Madara Uchiha stopped the ritual, challenged Sukuna, and trapped him in Susanoo, crushing his wrist.

• Megumi Fushiguro used Nue and Great Serpent to attack Sukuna, but Sukuna tore apart Great Serpent and emerged unharmed.
• Sukuna brutally beat Megumi Fushiguro until he was embedded in a wall and began chanting to summon Mahoraga.
• Madara Uchiha appeared beside Megumi and reassured him, then told Sukuna that Itadori, Megumi, and Kugisaki would be saved.
• Madara taunted Sukuna and challenged him, while Sukuna threatened to tear him apart.
• Sukuna attacked Madara, but Susanoo shielded him and seized Sukuna’s wrist, which Madara crushed.

Madara defeated Sukuna in close combat and forced him to retreat into Yuji Itadori, then revealed that Jujutsu Society higher-ups had arranged a mission to kill Yuji. Madara disguised a clone as Yuji’s corpse and told Yuji to hide and grow stronger while Satoru Gojo arrived to take him away.

• Madara outmaneuvered Sukuna in close combat, breaking his ribs and demonstrating that he had seen through Sukuna’s attacks.
• Sukuna restored his heart, decided to retreat into Itadori, and left Megumi Fushiguro and Madara as potential future vessels.
• Yuji Itadori regained control, and Madara told him that Jujutsu Society higher-ups had used the mission to try to kill him.
• Madara created a clone disguised as Yuji’s corpse and instructed Yuji to stay hidden and train until Gojo made arrangements.
• Satoru Gojo arrived, and Madara left with the injured Megumi while Gojo took Yuji away.

Satoru Gojo began Yuji Itadori’s cursed energy control training in a hidden basement and told him that some Jujutsu Society higher-ups wanted him dead. Itadori resolved to grow stronger and protect his companions as he started the exercise.

• Satoru Gojo tested Itadori’s cursed energy and explained that he needed to regulate its flow rather than rely on extreme emotions.
• Gojo gave Itadori a cursed corpse bear that attacked whenever its cursed energy supply stopped or became unstable.
• Gojo instructed Itadori to keep the bear supplied with steady cursed energy while watching emotionally provocative movies.
• Itadori asked whether Jujutsu Society higher-ups wanted to kill him, and Gojo confirmed it while promising to protect him.
• Gojo explained that Madara protected Itadori because he saw him as a companion and perhaps a little brother.
• Itadori committed to training, then began watching the movie while maintaining the bear’s cursed energy supply.

Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki learned the truth about Itadori and began training harder, while Madara gave Fushiguro new advice about the Ten Shadows Technique. Madara then set out to find Itadori and planned to save Junpei Yoshino by killing Mahito before the curse could harm him.

• Megumi Fushiguro told Nobara Kugisaki that the Higher-Ups had tried to kill Itadori and that Satoru Gojo and Madara had intervened, and they agreed to pretend to grieve their companion.
• Kugisaki and Fushiguro trained at the Training Ground because they felt too weak to protect Itadori, and Maki noticed their gloomy expressions.
• Madara visited the Training Ground and suggested that Fushiguro try using the shikigami's abilities through shadows without fully summoning them.
• Madara told Maki that he would not participate in the Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event, and Kugisaki introduced herself and thanked him for saving them.
• After leaving Jujutsu High, Madara decided to save Junpei Yoshino and kill Mahito before he could transform or kill him.
• Madara created a Wood Clone to return to Jujutsu High while he disguised himself and headed out to locate Itadori and monitor the Special Grade Cursed Spirits.

Kenjaku told Jogo how to defeat the Jujutsu Sorcerers, advising him to seal Satoru Gojo and win over Sukuna. Jogo rejected caution and went to challenge Gojo, while Kenjaku left the burned restaurant to continue his plans.

• Jogo argued that Cursed Spirits were the true humans and asked Kenjaku how they could defeat the Jujutsu Sorcerers.
• Kenjaku said they needed to neutralize Satoru Gojo and win over Sukuna, and mentioned Madara Uchiha as an unlikely alternative ally.
• Kenjaku advised Jogo to seal Gojo with the Prison Realm, warning that fighting him directly would mean certain death.
• Jogo killed the restaurant manager and all the customers and employees with his flames.
• Jogo left to find Gojo, declaring that the Prison Realm would be his if he won, while Kenjaku called him foolish and departed.

Madara Uchiha ambushed Jogo and overwhelmed the special grade cursed spirit with his strength and Susanoo, prompting Jogo to prepare a Domain Expansion. Kenjaku watched the fight in disbelief as Satoru Gojo’s car approached, and Gojo decided to stop and observe.

• Jogo waited on a mountain road to ambush Satoru Gojo, but Madara Uchiha dropped from the sky and slammed him into the ground.
• Madara identified himself, and Jogo realized he was the Madara Uchiha Kenjaku had mentioned before attacking him with a volcanic eruption.
• Madara summoned Susanoo to withstand Jogo’s magma and Ember Insects, then taunted Jogo as the attacks failed to harm him.
• Jogo prepared to turn the area into a volcanic hell, while Madara dissolved Susanoo and revealed his Rinnegan.
• Kenjaku watched from a nearby mountain and wondered where Madara had come from and whether he had mastered Domain Expansion.
• Kiyotaka Ijichi warned Satoru Gojo about the powerful cursed energy ahead, but Gojo told him to pull over so he could watch the fight.

Madara overlaid Jogo’s Coffin of the Iron Mountain with his Heavenly Imperial Pillars domain and summoned Six Paths Madara to test whether Yin-Yang Release could affect souls. Six Paths Madara killed Jogo, and Madara returned to the mountain forest with his theory about soul attacks confirmed.

• Jogo activated Coffin of the Iron Mountain, and Madara overlaid it with his Heavenly Imperial Pillars domain.
• Madara summoned Six Paths Madara, whose presence left Jogo overwhelmed by the difference in their power.
• Jogo unleashed Maximum: Meteor, but Six Paths Madara interrupted the attack with Yin Release Lightning Dispatch and severed Jogo’s arm with his Cursed Staff.
• Jogo failed to heal his wound, and Madara realized that Yin-Yang Release could interfere with souls.
• Six Paths Madara pierced Jogo through the chest and erased him, then Madara’s domain faded and Six Paths Madara merged back into him.

Madara reflected on the power he had mastered and concealed, while Kenjaku and Hanami watched him after his victory over Jogo. Gojo arranged for Yuji to witness Madara’s Domain Expansion as a lesson, and Madara waited for them to arrive.

• Madara recognized that he could use six paths mode and all of Madara Uchiha’s abilities, but hid his true strength because he feared his friends would see him as a monster.
• Kenjaku considered whether Madara had killed Jogo without questioning him because he was inexperienced or because he had already learned Jogo’s memories.
• Kenjaku warned Hanami that Gojo was coming and left, and Hanami eventually vanished into the forest.
• Gojo met Madara and asked about the special grade cursed spirit; Madara said he had killed Jogo and pretended he had forgotten to ask about the organization behind him.
• Gojo arranged for Yuji Itadori to come watch Madara demonstrate a domain, and Madara waited eagerly for the lesson to begin.

Satoru Gojo tested Itadori’s control of cursed energy, then took him to a mountain forest for a lesson on Domain Expansion. After Madara demonstrated his domain and Gojo explained its rules and counters, Gojo opened Unlimited Void, changing the world again.

• Itadori maintained a steady flow of cursed energy into the Little Bear Cursed Corpse even when Satoru Gojo startled him.
• Satoru Gojo transported Itadori to a mountain forest, where Madara was waiting.
• Madara expanded Heavenly Imperial Pillars, transforming the forest into a vast white space filled with stone pillars.
• Satoru Gojo explained domain effects, sure-hit attacks, and three ways to counter a domain, while Madara clarified that his eyes were unrelated to his domain.
• Satoru Gojo removed his blindfold and expanded Unlimited Void.

Satoru Gojo and Madara demonstrated their domain expansions for Itadori, then planned a month of training and difficult missions to prepare him for the Goodwill Event. As Kyoto Jujutsu High’s principal arrived for a meeting, Madara left the training ground to check on the first-years.

• Satoru Gojo and Madara clashed their domains without using their sure-hit effects, then both dispelled them.
• Satoru Gojo told Itadori to train for a month and promised combat practice and difficult missions before the Goodwill Event.
• Masamichi Yaga worried that Yoshinobu Gakuganji and the conservatives would use the Goodwill Event to pressure Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Panda, Maki, and Inumaki discussed the political threat to the students and wondered whether Mai Zenin had come with the Kyoto delegation.
• Madara left the training ground, and Maki said he had likely gone to check on the first-years.

Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro encountered Kyoto students Mai Zenin and Aoi Todo, who provoked them over Yuji Itadori’s death. Todo then challenged Fushiguro to answer what kind of woman he liked, leaving Fushiguro and Kugisaki stunned by his bizarre demand.

• Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro met Mai Zenin and Aoi Todo at the vending machine.
• Mai Zenin mocked Yuji Itadori’s death and suggested Fushiguro and Kugisaki were relieved he was gone.
• Kugisaki prepared to fight Mai, while Fushiguro positioned himself between them and suggested they attack together.
• Aoi Todo interrupted Mai and challenged Fushiguro to prove himself worthy of standing in for Yuta Okkotsu at the Goodwill Event.
• Todo demanded to know Fushiguro’s type of woman and threatened to beat him if his answer disappointed him.

Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki faced Aoi Todo and Mai Zenin in the corridor, where Todo attacked Fushiguro after disliking his answer about his ideal type. As Todo prepared to strike Fushiguro again, Madara Uchiha appeared between them.

• Nobara Kugisaki asked Megumi Fushiguro why Aoi Todo called this the last Goodwill Event, and Fushiguro explained that fourth years could not participate.
• Todo demanded to know Fushiguro's type, then attacked him after Fushiguro said he had no particular preference beyond individuality.
• Mai Zenin held a handgun against Kugisaki's waist to stop her from helping Fushiguro.
• Fushiguro recalled that Todo had defeated five Grade 1 Cursed Spirits and a Special Grade during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, using his cursed technique against the Special Grade.
• Fushiguro summoned Nue and Toad with Well's Unknown Bottom, but Todo's speed overwhelmed the shikigami and left Fushiguro exposed to another blow.
• Madara Uchiha appeared between Todo and Fushiguro and asked Todo whether he was bullying his dear junior.

Madara Uchiha intervened when Aoi Todo and Mai Zenin confronted Nobara Kugisaki and Megumi Fushiguro, knocking Todo away with a single punch. After Todo introduced himself and declared them friends, he asked Madara what type of woman he liked.

• Madara appeared between Todo and Fushiguro and sent Todo crashing into the hallway wall with one punch.
• Kugisaki escaped Mai's hold and explained that Madara was a powerful second-year at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Todo recovered with a grin, while Mai put away her handgun and backed away from Madara and the others.
• Madara reproached Todo and Mai for targeting his juniors, and Todo defended his actions as a way to test their strength.
• Kugisaki learned from Fushiguro that Madara had declined to join the Goodwill Event because he did not want the hassle.
• Todo introduced himself to Madara, declared them friends, and asked what type of woman Madara liked.

Madara stopped Aoi Todo from attacking Megumi and then watched Todo leave for an idol handshake event as Mai and Maki exchanged insults. The Tokyo students returned to training, with Madara drafted as their sparring partner.

• Madara exchanged baffled looks with Megumi and Nobara after Todo asked him about his ideal type.
• Panda, Toge Inumaki, and Maki arrived, and Maki and Mai traded insults about each other's abilities.
• Todo left to attend Takada-chan's Solo Handshake Event, and Mai chased after him while warning the Tokyo students about the Goodwill Event.
• Maki told Nobara to save her energy for the Goodwill Event and thanked Madara by implication for intervening.
• Madara and Maki sent Megumi and Nobara back to training, and Maki asked Madara to spar with them.

Madara gave Itadori a wooden good-luck charm and explained that he was sitting out the Goodwill Event so his juniors could take the stage. He then pranked Gojo with pepper-laced cake, captured his sneeze in a photo, and kept it after Gojo warned him not to share it.

• Madara gave Itadori a small wooden figurine as a good-luck charm before Itadori left on a mission with Kento Nanami.
• Madara told Gojo he would not enter the Goodwill Event because he wanted his juniors to gain experience and recognition.
• Gojo noticed Madara had learned Reverse Cursed Technique, and Madara confirmed he had mastered it a few days earlier.
• Madara served Gojo a pepper-laced strawberry cake and photographed him sneezing.
• Madara demanded money to delete the photo, but Gojo told him to keep it as long as he did not share it and threatened him with a month of special training if he did.

Deity A revealed to Deity B that he fabricated many supposed reincarnators by implanting memories into natives, using false experiences to shape their responsibilities and choices for amusement. The chapter ended with Madara briefly sensing something overhead before returning to his training.

• Deity A showed Deity B his collection of lives unfolding across countless screens.
• Deity A explained that he implanted memories of a daughter into a man, making him believe he was her father and driving him to sacrifice for her.
• Deity A revealed that many of his supposed reincarnators were natives given fabricated memories rather than genuine cross-dimensional reincarnators.
• Deity B worried that the interference could bring punishment or provoke powerful natives, but Deity A said the risk was worth the amusement.
• Deity B decided to try implanting memories in his own observation zone, and Deity A advised him to make them fit the subjects.
• Madara briefly looked toward the sky as if sensing something, then returned to his training.

Junpei Yoshino endured Miura’s bullying at school and hid it from his worried mother, finding brief refuge in movies and an online forum. He dreaded returning to school, but his love for his mother remained his last defense, and he feared losing her to her smoking.

• Miura and his lackeys bullied Junpei in the restroom, burning a lock of his hair and threatening him.
• Junpei found his favorite movie poster torn up and covered with insults in his shoe locker.
• Junpei sat by the river and wondered whether anyone would notice if he disappeared.
• Junpei lied to his mother about school and explained away his singed hair, then ate dinner with her.
• Junpei argued on a movie forum that society’s cruelty had turned Worm Man into a monster, before wondering whether he might become one himself.
• Junpei took a photo of his hollow-eyed face, dreaded going back to school, and fell asleep thinking of his mother as his last reason to endure.

Junpei Yoshino witnessed Mahito transform three classmates who had bullied him into grotesque creatures, then asked Mahito if he could gain the same power. Mahito taught Junpei to awaken his Cursed Technique, and Junpei came to regard the cursed spirit as his closest companion.

• At a screening of "Worm Man 3," Mahito appeared beside three rude high school students and touched their shoulders, transforming them into monsters.
• Junpei recognized the transformed students as classmates who had tormented him and fled the theater to find Mahito.
• Junpei confronted Mahito and asked if he could gain the power to do the same; Mahito agreed and asked his name.
• Mahito called him Junpei, guided him in awakening his Cursed Technique, and explained that he was a cursed spirit.
• Junpei came to see Mahito as his closest companion, the one who understood him and embraced his monstrous nature.

Junpei Yoshino spent a joyful afternoon with Yuji Itadori, discovering they shared a love of movies and becoming friends. After Yuji joined Junpei and his mother for dinner, Junpei ended the night feeling happy and replied to Mahito that he had enjoyed himself.

• Junpei and Yuji bonded over their opinions about the Worm Man movies and exchanged contact details.
• Yuji told Junpei's mother, who had just finished shopping, that he thought they could be friends.
• Junpei's mother invited Yuji to dinner, and Yuji accepted.
• Junpei, Yuji, and Junpei's mother shared a warm dinner, and Yuji praised her cooking.
• Junpei walked Yuji to the station, then replied "Yeah" to Mahito's message asking if he had had fun.

Junpei found his mother murdered by a cursed spirit and, after Mahito identified Sukuna’s Finger as the object that attracted the curse, suspected Ito Shota was responsible. He went to school intending to use his awakened power for revenge and confronted Shota during PE.

• Junpei found his mother dead at home, with strangulation marks and a hole in her chest, and broke down beside her body.
• Mahito arrived, found Sukuna’s Finger in the living room, and explained that the Special Grade Cursed Object attracted curses.
• Mahito suggested that a wealthy, connected curse user might have arranged the murder, and Junpei suspected Ito Shota.
• Junpei went to the school gym while Shota played basketball and formed hand seals, invoking “Moon Dregs.”

Junpei used Moon Dregs to poison the students and torment Shota, accusing him of placing Sukuna’s Finger in his home and causing his mother’s death. Yuji stopped Junpei from continuing the attack, then apologized and asked what had happened, leaving Junpei finally able to tell him that his mother had died.

• Junpei summoned Moon Dregs and incapacitated the students in the gym with poison gas as the Curtain fell.
• Junpei confronted Shota about Sukuna’s Finger and his mother’s death, then beat him while Shota denied knowing anything about it.
• Yuji arrived and tried to stop Junpei, but Junpei sent Moon Dregs to attack him with poison and venom.
• Yuji punched Junpei through a gym window, then urged him to reconsider while Junpei insisted that his former life was gone.
• Yuji let Moon Dregs attack him without resisting, apologized for speaking without knowing what had happened, and gently asked Junpei to tell him.
• Junpei broke down and told Yuji that his mother had died.

Junpei realized Mahito had manipulated him to get close to Itadori and waited for Mahito to kill him. Madara intervened with a clone, protecting Junpei and confronting Mahito.

• Itadori invited Junpei to join Jujutsu High and fight together to find the person who cursed Junpei’s mother.
• Mahito appeared and identified Itadori as Sukuna’s vessel before pinning him against a wall with his transformed arm.
• Junpei recognized that Mahito had used him as a pawn to target Itadori and closed his eyes as Mahito reached for him.
• Madara’s protective-charm Doll transformed into a clone, which used Susanoo to separate Mahito from Junpei and free Itadori.
• The Madara clone shielded Junpei and demanded to know who had given Mahito permission to touch his junior’s friend.