Kensuke Nagino

**Kensuke Nagino** (奈 (な) 木 (ぎ) 野 (の)  健 (けん) 介 (すけ) , *Nagino Kensuke*?) is a character in the *Jujutsu Kaisen* series. He is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer, the principal of the Fukuoka Jujutsu High, former Director of the Waning Moon Squad, and mentor figure to Saki Rindo. During the Shinjuku Showdown, he was killed by Meirei.

## Appearance

Kensuke is a middle-aged man with shoulder length slicked back hair, a beard, and moustache. He has a red eye, wearing an eyepatch over his other one.

Kensuke wears a black shirt underneath a standard issue jujutsu uniform.

## Personality

Kensuke is a confident, sometimes arrogant, and secretive person. Due to the dark nature of his past, he took several steps to ensure that his students wouldn’t find out about his “work” with the Higher Ups. Despite this, he comes off to others as a stoic but sometimes arrogant seasoned jujutsu sorcerer.

Kensuke, to his students, is a confident and sometimes imposing man, who expects nothing but the best from his students.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Kensuke is a seasoned grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer who has fought against and defeated special grade cursed spirits and powerful curse users. As the former director of the Waning Moon Squad, a team of dangerous killers organized by the Higher Ups, Kensuke has lots of experience in combat and martial arts. According to Saki Rindo, a mentee of Kensuke, he is the pinnacle of what it means to be a grade 1 sorcerer.

### Physical Prowess

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: As a grade 1 sorcerer and former director of a powerful jujutsu squad, Kensuke has years of training and experience with martial arts. As part of his main fighting style, Kensuke has mastered and even developed dozens of martial arts techniques, which he uses to great effect along with his great physical strength.

**Immense Strength**: As hand to hand combat is Kensuke’s main source of damage, Kensuke is incredibly strong, having worked his own body past the physical peak he believed it had.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Befitting his rank of a grade 1 sorcerer, Kensuke has buzzard reflexes and speed, able to dodge Mei Mei’s Bird Strike with ease as well as blitz special grade curses.

**Immense Durability**: Kensuke’s durability surpasses the average sorcerer, as he needed it to be in order to withstand close quarters combat. According to Kusakube, a fellow grade 1 sorcerer, attacks felt like they were hitting a steel wall.

**Immense Stamina:** Despite the draining effect of his innate technique, Kensuke has a large amount of stamina, capable of fighting long after his technique is cooling down.

### **Jujutsu**

Due to occurrences in the past, Kensuke was forced to acquire a Cursed Tool known as Brother Eye to replace his lost eye and maintain the ability to use his cursed technique.

## Trivia

**•** Kensuke’s name 健介(kensuke) means strength or healthy and her surname 梛野(nagino) means “to cut the wilderness”.

**•** He has a son, but no one knows about him.

**•** During his time as the director of the Waning Moon Squad, Kensuke was forced to try to kill Satoru Gojo. Now you know where the eyepatch came from.

According to Jujutsu Kaisen Unofficial Fanbook:

• His hobby is brewing tea.

• Favorite dish: Jasmine tea and booze.

• Least favorite dish: Soba, hot or cold.