Hanami

is an antagonist in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. They were an unregistered special grade cursed spirit aligned with Jogo, Dagon, and Mahito. Hanami was born from the fear of land-based natural disasters and they desired to rid the earth of humanity because of their mistreatment of nature.
== Appearance ==
Hanami is a large tan cursed spirit with black lines running across their entire body. Hanami has a helmet like head that doesn't cover their teeth, branches for where the eyes are supposed to be, and two black lines that zig zag down their face. Underneath the cloth that Hanami wears, Hanami's left arm is entirely black but the fingers are white while their right fingers are black. Hanami also has a larger flower on their left shoulder.
Hanami wears black baggy pants that is held up with a white sash, and a white cloth that covers their left arm.
== Personality ==
Hanami is the type of spirit who cares for the planet that the humans have been abusing for thousands of years. They wish to kill humans in order to sacrifice them so they can be sages to a cleaner world controlled by cursed spirits that will respect the earth. Hanami believes in Jogo's ideals along with Dagon, as they want to replace humanity with cursed spirits because they feel curses are the true humans.
In contrast to Hanami's peaceful convictions, Mahito has encouraged them to embrace their savagery as a spirit. In the heat of battle, Hanami learned to embrace their instincts and began to enjoy the thrill of the fight, allowing it to drive them forward beyond their limits.
Hanami has a close kinship with their allies, willing to go out of their way and briefly challenge Satoru Gojo in order to rescue Jogo from being exorcised. They follow Mahito and ultimately sacrifices themself for their group's ultimate plan in Shibuya.
== Abilities and Powers ==
Overall Skill: Hanami is a special grade cursed spirit with an incredibly durable body, powerful cursed techniques that can control plants, and an uncanny ability to hide his presence more effectively than others. They were able to take Satoru Gojo by surprise and momentarily take advantage of Yuji's vulnerability using their Flower Field and a wooden monster in order to rescue Jogo. This was achievable due to a combination of Hanami's high intellect as a curse as well as their escaping abilities and hidden presence. Gojo himself commended Hanami's ability to run away, as they were able to evade the Six Eyes' strong perception. Satoru even found Hanami far more threatening than the straightforward Jogo.
Hanami was able to pass through the barriers of Jujutsu High due to their unique skillset and was the cornerstone of their group's assault on Jujutsu High during their raid of the cursed warehouse. The special grade curse was able to take on six of the school's most elite students, rendering the majority of them unable to fight after encountering them. Additionally, Hanami was able to survive Satoru Gojo's Hollow Technique: Purple after reaching their limit fighting against Yuji and Aoi Todo, although barely clinging to life.
In Hanami's final battle with Gojo, they were targeted due to their previous two encounters with the strongest sorcerer. While Hanami showed the capacity to follow Geto's plan to corner Gojo and was vital to his eventual sealing, they would not survive to see it through. They made a crucial mistake switching between different types of cursed techniques that Gojo was able to exploit. Hanami's eye branches are the only vulnerable points on their body, and they are incredibly vulnerable. When the branches were fully pulled out of their hard shell, Hanami's abilities drop dramatically, making them incapable of withstanding another assault from Gojo.
Immense Durability: Hanami possesses an incredibly hard shell on their body, capable of shattering Kasumi Miwa's sword upon impact. They were also effortlessly able to brush off Noritoshi Kamo's Slicing Exorcism attack despite it hitting the side of their head. A clean slash to Hanami's leg from Megumi's sword also dealt zero damage. Even after being hit directly in their blocking arm by Maki using the special grade cursed tool: Playful Cloud, they were sent flying away but only suffered minimal damage as a result.
After being hit multiple times by Maki and Megumi on their weak points, Hanami was still able to withstands their attacks, recover quickly, and ultimately subdue them with ease. The most the majority of the students could hope to achieve was stall Hanami in time for more backup to arrive. Only Yuji and Aoi together were able to injure Hanami enough to make them use their full power.
(It has been noted by Gege Akutami himself that while Jogo possesses more cursed energy and has an elemental advantage over Hanami, he could not have survived Yuji's Black Flash assault followed by a blow from Playful Cloud wielded by Aoi Todo like Hanami was able to.)
Enhanced Strength: Hanami has a high degree of physical strength and can easily brutalize a human sorcerer in close range combat. Once Hanami finally closed the distance between them and Noritoshi, it only took a few strikes to incapacitate the sorcerer. On the defensive, Hanami was also able hold off Nue as the giant bird-like shikigami divebombed them with its wing.
Enhanced Speed: Hanami was fast enough to swiftly escape with Jogo's head after a brief distraction. They were also able to completely blitz past Megumi and Noritoshi, taking them both off guard since Hanami was a great distance away before that moment.
Hidden Presence: Gojo has stated that Hanami has the peculiar presence of a regular spirit despite definitely being a curse. Additionally, they can move through plants and erase its presence completely, making Hanami difficult to pin down. Hanami is able to move underground using the plants to escape quickly and move through barriers, avoiding exorcism from the aforementioned sorcerer twice. He also took Toge Inumaki, a semi-grade 1 sorcerer, completely by surprise after killing off another curse that the student had just noticed.
=== Jujutsu ===
 	
Immense Cursed Energy: Hanami has a naturally high cursed energy level, although not quite as high as Jogo. The difference in their amount of cursed energy and Toge's was so great that the latter's quickly reached his limit from using cursed speech despite only using a few weaker commands. They were able to continuously use their Innate Technique throughout his battles with Megumi, Toge, Noritoshi, and Maki without exhausting themself.	Immense Cursed Energy: Hanami has a naturally high cursed energy level, although not quite as high as Jogo. The difference in their amount of cursed energy and Toge's was so great that the latter's quickly reached his limit from using cursed speech despite only using a few weaker commands. They were able to continuously use their Innate Technique throughout his battles with Megumi, Toge, Noritoshi, and Maki without exhausting themself.
 	
 	
Revealing One's Hand: A commonly used Binding Vow by many jujutsu practitioners. By divulging how their cursed technique works, Hanami can increase the effectiveness of their technique as well as mislead their opponents on how it works.	
	
	
: Hanami can create roots that emerge from the ground. When they limit the reach and numbers of roots, their power and speed increase. Vice versa, they can greatly expand the number of roots and their range by sacrificing speed and destructive power.	
: Hanami can create a single or multiple wooden balls from cursed energy. The balls propel one or two sharp branches attack and skewer their target and then disintegrate. Hanami can also use these to suspend themself in midair. 	
 	
 	
	
	: This technique neutralizes all cursed techniques it comes into contact with; however, rather than remaining in a designated space, it acts as a fluid shield that covers the user's body completely, similar to an aura.
	
	
== Battles & Events ==
Kyoto Goodwill Event Arc
* Megumi Fushiguro, Toge Inumaki & Noritoshi Kamo vs. Hanami
* Megumi Fushiguro & Maki Zenin vs. Hanami
* Yuji Itadori & Aoi Todo vs. Hanami
Shibuya Incident Arc
* The Shibuya Incident
** Satoru Gojo vs. Mahito's Group
== Trivia ==
* Hanami's name contains the kanji for and .
**Their name poetically describes their motivations, but is also ironic and punny since if written using different kanjis, describes the spring-time practice of viewing sakura.
* Hanami's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
** Hanami ranked 32nd in the first Popularity Poll with 407 votes.
** Hanami ranked 41st in the second Popularity Poll with 39 votes.
** Hanami ranked 62nd in the third Popularity Poll with 10 votes.
*In the anime, Hanami initially speaks in reverse, but later speaks normally.
* The hole in Hanami's left hand was referenced in the juju stroll of Episode 18.
*Although they were unable to use their domain expansion in the story, the non-canonical mobile game Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade included Hanami as an enemy who can utilize their domain expansion with an environment and guaranteed-hit similar to what Gege Akutami had described in an interview.
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