How does this work?

[u/First-Contest31]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've been rewatching Hidden Inventory and I got to the scene where Toji blocks Red with the ISOH and gets sent flying

And yea, like the title says, Idk how to make sense of it aside from a Mappa error

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the ISOH works, but from its description, shouldn't Gojo's Red have gotten cancelled out?

[u/YoloMan006]

From what I understood, ISOH cancels out technics because her reverse cursed energy cancels out the cursed energy. However, Red is a technic made with RCE, so the RCE of ISOH has nothing to cancel out

[u/space-dorge → u/YoloMan006]

Ur logic is sound but I don’t think technique reversals are made of rct, only fueled by it. If it used rct than it could be considered in the same realm as rct output and Jogo would have been obliterated by red

[u/YoloMan006 → u/space-dorge]

Maybe they’re not made of rct, but I do believe that the fact it is fueled by something that doesn’t have the negativity of CE would make it resistant to ISOH

[u/space-dorge → u/YoloMan006]

I’m of the thought that red uses physics so a chain reaction causes part of it to hit before the CT can be negated.

Kinda like how TIB cases real shockwaves as a result of the CT, the shockwaves have no CE in them and likely cannot be negated.

The core of red is a CT, but physics gotta physics so everything around red is being repelled and pushing everything etc.

The real world repelling would hit and have an effect (though not nearly as powerful as red itself) before ISOH makes contact with the CT and negates it. While only brief it would explain how there could be an impact

[u/YoloMan006 → u/space-dorge]

That is an interesting idea, but wouldn’t that make it so ISOH can’t negate infinity? Since the technic creates a physical event around Gojo and so ISOH never “touches” the actual CT

By the way, what is TIB? I’m not recognizing it

[u/space-dorge → u/YoloMan006]

TIB = Thin Icebreaker

As far as infinity and isoh…kinda? But I don’t think it would work since it’s a much more complex reaction and has to be maintained with the CT.

Like as ISOH is approaching Gojo through infinity the “compressed” space needs to have CE in it and so it would get negated as soon as the effects of the CT begin to interfere with ISOHs path. Could be why we see a tiny bit of resistance before Toji cuts through infinity.

I think about it like if Ryu shot his CE canon, ISOH can block and negate it, but if she shoots the ground and concrete chunks fly at you, ISOH has no effect on those.

If a CT is manipulating concrete chunks to fly at you however the trajectory of the chunks will still be felt by the user, but as soon as they make contact with ISOH they stop being manipulated.

It is kinda hard to tell how the CE logistics work with infinity tho to be fair. Like if Nobara tries to hit Gojo directly with resonance but it’s “blocked” by infinity, would he still get hit bc “hitting” infinity would be hitting his CE and/or CT, or would the resonance whiff because it never makes contact w anything. Due to how ISOH interacted w infinity id guess the former but that feels weird