jujutsu kaisen

Yuji Itadori

Yuji Itadori is the main protagonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is the son of Jin Itadori and grandson of Wasuke Itadori. Yuji's character is defined by his desire to aide those in need while simultaneously seeing the best in others, regardless of what they've done in the past. Which is triggered by his grandfather's last words to him: "protect those you care about so that when you die, you die surrounded by [people] that love you".

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Yuji's name in kanji serves as a symbolic refernce to his desire to aide those in need. In kanji Yuji means “unchanging kindness” or “unwavering humanity”.

Itadori is a rare word in kanji. It is seldom written the way Akutami writes it. When written in this manner Itadori roughly translates to "take away pain".

As a jujutsu student at Tokyo Jujutsu high Yuji is taught to manipulate cursed energy and use cursed tools

Yuji using cursed energy (Anime)

Cursed Energy

Yuji using divergent fist (Anime)

Divergent Fist

Yuji using Black Flash (Anime)

Black Flash

Key Events

Throughout the series, Yuji developes exceptional cursed techniques as he faces down different curses and the emotional blowback that accompanies them. Yuji is forced to question his ideals as he attempts to reconcile his beliefs with the sombering reality of life as a Jujutsu sorcerer.

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Yuji Itadori

Yuji Itadori is the main protagonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is the son of Jin Itadori and grandson of Wasuke Itadori who was living a normal life until he encountered Megumi and ate one of Sukuna's fingers. After becoming Sukuna's vessel, Yuji began attending Tokyo Jujutsu High.

Megumi Fushiguro

Megumi Fushiguro is the deuteragonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. Megumi entered Jujutsu High as a Grade 2 sorcerer and is considered to have high potential. Megumi inherited the Ten Shadows Technique, which is an inherited technique that ispassed down in the Zenin Family.

Nobara Kugisaki

Nobara Kugisaki is the tritagonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She is a first-year student and grade 3 jujutsu sorcerer at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Nobara employs the straw doll technique. Her technique involves utilizing jujutsu through a set of tools, which include a hammer, nails, and a straw doll.

Maki Zenin

Maki Zenin is a major supporting character in Jujutsu Kaisen. She is currently a second-year at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Maki was born as a non-sorcerer to one of the Big Three Sorcerer Clans, the Zenin Clan. As a result of being born a non-sorcerer Maki was constantly mistreated by her family.

Toge Inumaki

Toge Inumaki is a descendant of the Inumaki clan who inherited the rare and powerful cursed speech technique. This prevents Toge from speaking normally so he's developed his own unique speech pattern to avoid cursing others. Toge is a semi-grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and second-year at Tokyo Jujutsu High along with Yuta, Maki, and Panda.

Panda

Panda is not actually a panda, he's an Abrupt Mutated Cursed Corpse, the most advanced of his kind. Panda is a grade 2 sorcerer who was created by Masamichi Yaga. Panda is currently a second-year student at Jujutsu High. Due to Panda's natural affinity for jujutsu he is capable of exorcising curses based solely on his physical abilities.

Yuta Okkotsu

Yuta Okkotsu is a major supporting character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series and the main protagonist of it's prequel series, Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High. He was initially a special grade cursed human haunted by his late childhood friend, Rika Orimoto. Yuta is one of only four special grade sorcerers recognized by Jujutsu High.

Aoi Todo

Aoi Todo is a supporting character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is a third-year student at Kyoto Jujutsu High School and a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer. Aoi is an exceptionally powerful sorcerer, undoubtedly one of Jujutsu High's strongest students. He obtained the rank of a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer as a student despite coming from a non-sorcerer family.

Mai Zenin

Mai Zenin is a character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She was a second-year at student at Kyoto Jujutsu High, member of the Zenin clan, and the younger twin sister of Maki Zenin. Mai possesses above average cursed energy for a human but less than the normal sorcerer.However, she nor Maki were able to gain an Inherited Technique of the Zenin clan.

Noritoshi Kamo

Noritoshi Kamo is a third-year at Kyoto Metropolitan Curse Technical College and heir to the head of the Kamo clan. Noritoshi is a semi-grade 1 sorcerer with the ability to use the Kamo Family's acclaimed Inherited Technique: Blood Manipulation. He is a skilled marksman who incorporates jujutsu into his archery.

Kokichi Muta

Kokichi Muta is a second-year at Kyoto Jujutsu High using Ultimate Mechamaru as his proxy to attend school. Kokichi himself could not due to the sickly and fragile body he was born with as a result of his Heavenly Restriction. As a result of his Heavenly Restriction, Kokichi's cursed energy was vast enough to cover the entire nation of Japan.

Momo Nishimiya

Momo Nishimiya is a character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She is a third-year student at Kyoto Jujutsu High and a semi-grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer. Momo uses an innate technique called tool manipulation. She can telepathically control her broom, allowing her to levitate it independently of herself.

Kasumi Miwa

Kasumi Miwa is a second-year at Kyoto Jujutsu High. Kasumi was born in Tokyo, coming from a poor family with two younger brothers. In Junior High, she met a mentor who would allow her to become a jujutsu sorcerer. Although she had never held a sword before, she trained so that she wouldn't be a burden to her mother.

Cursed Energy

Cursed energy is born from negative emotions such as grief and anger. These negative feelings are common in human society so almost everyone possesses cursed energy. If this amount is higher than a certain degree, it grants the person the ability to see curses, which is very rare among the human race.

Curses are apparitions manifested entirely from cursed energy. Even their bodies are composed of cursed energy, making cursed spirits invisible to non-sorcerers. Jujutsu related items such as cursed tools, cursed objects, and cursed corpses all contain cursed energy. The emission of cursed energy from humans collects like sediment until a cursed spirit is born from the collective negative energy.

Curses born with strong feelings directed toward a certain aspect are especially strong. The stronger humanity's fear and anger is directed at cursing a certain aspect of the world, like natural disasters, the more powerful curses spawned from those negative sentiments will be.

Proper control over one's emotions is key to channeling cursed energy and every jujutsu sorcerer is trained to do so. This makes it so sorcerers don't waste their power supply even while they're overcome with emotion.

Sorcerers leak far less cursed energy than the average human. So much so, that if every human were a sorcerer, curses would cease to spawn. There are other differences in how sorcerers and non-sorcerers use cursed energy due to their profession, but the real reason lies in how it flows. While cursed energy leaks outward from non-sorcerers, it flows heavily within sorcerers which keeps it contained.

Applying cursed energy to physical attacks can be as effective as a cursed technique when it comes to gifted combatants who prefer close quarters.

Yuji can fight on par with that of a grade 1 sorcerer without a technique due to his ability to seemlessly imbue his physical attacks with cursed energy.

Control over cursed energy requires innate skill and vigorous training. In order for Yuji to develop his skills, Gojo had him undergo special training that saw him controlling his emotions and his cursed energy at the same time.

Yuji's cursed energy originates from the cursed finger that he consume in the opening episode; as that finger belonged to the special grade curse, Ryomen Sukuna.

Although Yuji has not developed an innate technique, he has shown great proficiency in learning how to control cursed energy. Currently, Yuji primarily uses cursed energy combined with his martial arts skills and superhuman strength. Yuji reinforces his strikes with cursed energy, increasing their impact and allowing him to hurt curses.

Divergent Fist

Divergent Fist relies on the manipulation of Yuji's cursed energy, like all other Jujutsu techniques. It is a form of punching technique used by Yuuji in close-range fights. The technique involves the concentration of cursed energy in his fists while landing a blow. While training with Satoru Gojo, it was discovered that Yuji's cursed energy has a time lag.

The basic principle behind Divergent Fist is a time lag. Yuji is exceptionally agile, while also possessing super human physical strength. Due to Yuji's enhanced speed and reflexes his attacks reach his opponents before he is able to apply cursed energy to them. Thus, arises a delay or “lag”. He first hits with a bare minimum amount of cursed energy, and then the energy comes charging in. This means every contact he makes delivers two hits.

Since Yuji's speed and raw strength are exceptional, he is able to use Divergent Fist. However, most sorcerers cannot land such a hit. It proves to be a huge weapon for Yuji in his fights as it perfectly complements his fighting style.

Yuji first used it against a transfigured human and defeated the curse-like creature with the delayed hit. He also used this technique all throughout his fight with Mahito and attempted to finish the cursed spirit off with an extra-powerful shot that used up all Yuji's remaining cursed energy.

During the Goodwill Event, Yuji fought Aoi Todo with Divergent Fist. Aoi believed the technique holds Yuji back and revealed he'd never be able to defeat a special grade with it.

Yuji realizes that he should apply cursed energy at the exact moment when his strike hits at full strength. Yuji used to channel energy as soon as he made his move, making the hit a little weaker. Yuji was focused on “flowing” his cursed energy through his body in parts. However, the flow of cursed energy should not be thought of in terms of flowing to and from individual body parts. Instead one must thinl of the body as a whole. As a sorcerer becomes more profecient, their cursed energy flow becomes harder to predict for this very reason.

Divergent Fist was essentially formed from Yuji's bad habits when controlling his cursed energy. After his experience with Todo, Yuji's control over his cursed energy improved dramatically. He ceased utilizing the move until his fight with Choso, in which Yuji learned to control Divergent Fist and utilize the secondary impact to his advantage.

Rather than allowing his cursed energy to lag behind his speed, Aoi convinces Yuji to apply cursed energy at the moment of impact. Training him to do so eventually results in Yuji unlocking the capacity to utilize Black Flash.

Black Flash

Black Flash is a distortion in space that occurs when cursed energy is applied within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. When a sorcerer is able to achieve this, their cursed energy flashes black, and the destructive power of their strike is equal to a normal hit to the power of 2.5.

This technique is not too disimilar Yuji's Divergent Fist. However, when it comes to black flash, you are expected to control the flow of cursed energy so well that it is applied within 0.000001 seconds. Which is almost equal to zero.

Black Flash can be thought of as what athletes refer to as the “zone”. This is due to the fact that it increases their chances of landing a heavy attack, increases the power of their follow-up attacks, and it increase the probability that they will hit their opponent with another Black Flash attack.

Jujutsu sorcerers need to have an excellent understanding of cursed energy and incredible concentration to land a Black Flash. For this reason, it is usually uncommon amongst sorcerers. Contrary to how “uncommon” it is, Black Flash is still more commonly used by special-grade or higher-grade jujutsu sorcerers.

Unleashing Black Flash requires incredible concentration and no jujutsu sorcerer is capable of using doing so at will, not even Satoru Gojo. It does not occur randomly and requires immense skill and combat potential to pull off.

Jujutsu users who manage to unleash Black Flash immediately gain an immeasurably higher understanding of the essence of cursed energy when compared to someone who has never used it.

Anyone who succeeds in landing Black Flash will temporarily enter a state of increased cursed energy awareness, where the mental process of manipulating cursed energy becomes as simple as breathing for them. This leads to a greatly increased performance in combat, allowing the user to operate at 120% of their maximum potential.

Nanami believes that using Black Flash consecutive times isn't anything to celebrate. After unleashing Black Flash more than once, doing so repeatedly becomes a much easier task.

Nanami's record four consecutive Black Flashes were against cursed spirits during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons in Kyoto.

During the Goodwill Event, Aoi Todo was able to teach Yuji how to harness his cursed energy by properly timing it with his superhuman speed and strength. By explaining how to make his cursed energy flow properly and pitting Yuji against Hanami, Todo was able to help Yuji unleash Black Flash against the special grade curse.

Yuji's first Black Flash dealt a great deal of damage to Hanami. While "in the zone" Yuji was able to land a rush of four Black Flashes that completely overpowered the special grade curse. This rush tied Kento Nanami's record of four consecutive Black Flash strikes.

While fighting two-on-two against Eso & Kechizu, Yuji and Nobara both used Black Flash together to defeat the Death Paintings. Yuji's punch destroyed Eso's arm entirely, and so quickly that the special grade couldn't even react.

Yuji is not the only character to be seen using Black Flash. After emotionally breaking Yuji Itadori by near fatally injuring Nobara Kugisaki, Mahito landed a Black Flash strike on the unprepared Yuji, launching the boy across Shibuya Station and overwhelming him with numerous attacks. He once again used it against Aoi Todo after weakening him with Idle Transfiguration.