Kinji Hakari's Pachinko-based cursed technique explained in Jujutsu Kaisen S3

Episode 5 of Jujutsu Kaisen season 3, titled “Passion,” sets up a tense encounter between Yuji Itadori and suspended third-year Kinji Hakari inside Hakari’s Gachinko Fight Club after Yuji, Panda and Megumi infiltrate the venue. MAPPA stages the interaction as a rotoscoped, continuous one-shot that breaks into violence when Hakari suspects Yuji is a spy; Yuji is nearly crushed between levitating shutter doors and is kneed midair, demonstrating Hakari’s hand-to-hand skill and the doors his technique can summon.

Hakari’s innate cursed technique, Private Pure Love Train, is explicitly based on Pachinko and his favorite romance manga. The “train” aspect lets him summon shutters and other effects in combat, and he attacks with cursed energy-infused physical blows; because the fight in episode 5 lacks life-or-death stakes, Hakari does not activate his Domain Expansion, Idle Death Gamble, which simulates a probability-based Pachinko game.

The technique’s mechanics include lining up three identical numbers to trigger a jackpot (a one-in-239 chance), plus color-coded visual indicators that can alter odds. If Hakari activates Idle Death Gamble and wins a jackpot, he enters “Unkillable Mode,” gaining extra cursed energy for exactly four minutes and 11 seconds (synced to the romance manga’s theme song “Admiring You”), during which he can use Reverse Cursed Technique to heal; the effect ends when the song stops.

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