Atsuya Kusakabe

is a supporting character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and instructs the second-year students at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
== Appearance ==
Atsuya is a tall man with spiky brown hair and sharp dark eyes. Atsuya wears a dust brown peacoat over a white dress shirt with a jade necktie, black pants, and black shoes.
== Personality ==
Kusakabe appears to be a fearful individual and focused on his own self preservation as top priority. He is also willing to be deceitful to save his own skin as shown during the Shibuya Incident where he lied repeatedly to Panda so as to keep him around for safety, while directing him away from B5F where Gojo was sealed as to avoid clashing with special grade curses. He does however have a courageous side, as seen when he protected Kasumi Miwa from Kenjaku's Maximum: Uzumaki.
== Abilities and Powers ==
Overall Skill: Despite not possessing an innate technique, Kusakabe is a respected grade 1 sorcerer and a master swordsman of the New Shadow Style. Mei Mei regarded Kusakabe as the only sorcerer of his grade to make that rank without an innate technique. According to her, Kento Nanami and Satoru Gojo, Kusakabe is the strongest grade 1 sorcerer. Satoru specified that his statement may not be accurate if sorcerers from the Big Three Families were to be taken into account.
Despite such praises, Kusakabe openly admits on several occasions he has no chance of defeating a special grade and avoids them at all costs. However, he is fully confident he can defeat other adversaries such as the curse users Toshihisa Negi and Manami Suda, who he considered below his level.
While several jujutsu sorcerers in training were fighting to get Prison Realm from Pseudo-Geto, Kusakabe intervened just in time to save the lives of all his allies. Pseudo-Geto even commented on Kusakabe's knowledge on New Shadow Style, seemingly out of respect for his skill.
Master Swordsman: Kusakabe's swordplay is his main weapon in battle, relying heavily on physical prowess. In combination with the swordsmanship techniques of the New Shadow, he has showcased high proficiency in wielding his blade. Using Batto-Sword Drawing, Kusakabe made short work of three curse user henchmen in an instant.
=== Jujutsu ===
 	
Great Cursed Energy: As a grade 1 sorcerer, Kusakabe possesses respectable levels of cursed energy. To compensate for his lack of an innate technique, Kusakabe has mastered the New Shadow Style. This requires finely controlled cursed energy applications such as casting Simple Domain and coating his katana's blade with cursed energy. Kusakabe also has a keen sense for judging his opponent's strength, able to recognize someone on his level from a special grade in an instant.	
	
	: An anti-domain technique that neutralizes a Domain Expansion's barrier and disables its sure-hit effect. Kusakabe used Simple Domain to weaken Sukuna's cursed technique, reducing the damage of the slashes done to him.
: A fast sword drawing technique that coats Kusakabe's blade in cursed energy and rotates it around the blade to increase its drawing speed dramatically, enough so to make it the fastest iai-sword drawing technique of the New Shadow Style. 	
: Another sword-drawing technique with a different stance than Batto Sword Drawing that activates a Simple Domain. While inside the Simple Domain, Kusakabe's cursed energy output is increased while cursed techniques that intrude into it are slightly weakened. By incorporating an original program into the Simple Domain, Kusakabe can automatically intercept anything that enters the Simple Domain with his katana.	
: A New Shadow Style technique that recreates part of a broken blade with cursed energy. 	
== Equipment ==
	
	Kusakabe wields a traditional katana with a gold guard and a dark red handle. It is his primary weapon in combat and is constantly imbued with his cursed energy, making it comparable to a cursed tool.
== Battles & Events ==
Cursed Child Arc
* Night Parade of a Hundred Demons
Shibuya Incident Arc
* The Shibuya Incident
** Jujutsu Sorcerers & Choso vs. Kenjaku & Uraume
Shinjuku Showdown Arc
* Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Sukuna
== Trivia ==
* According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
** His hobby is fishing.
** Favorite dish: Torotaki-maki (fatty tuna and pickled radish roll).
** Least Favorite dish: Tuna eye.
** Cause of stress: All missions.
* Atsuya's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
** Atsuya ranked 39th in the second Popularity Poll with 58 votes.
** Atsuya ranked 25th in the third Popularity Poll with 197 votes.
* Atsuya's surname has the Nanori reading for , the Kan-on reading for , and the Kun reading for . His given name has the Kun reading for and a Jinmeiyo kanji .
== References ==
== Navigation ==
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