Asura Miyashiro

**Asura Miyashiro** (宮代阿修羅 (みやしろあすら) *Miyashiro Ashūra*) is a major supporting character in the *Jujutsu Kaisen* series and one of the main protagonists in its prequel series *Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High*. He is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and a third-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, alongside Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi. Famed as the **Sage of The West** (西の賢者 (西のセージ) *Nishi no Kenja*) and many other titles, he is one of Tokyo's most talented sorcerers and regularly looked to for advice and leadership despite his personal dislike of responsibility. Despite being a third-year student, he can be regularly seen hanging out with his juniors.

## Appearance

Asura is a handsome young man with olive skin, large bright yellow eyes, and a youthful face. He is relatively tall and just stands below Nanami. He appears to have a lean and athletic physique and is well built for his age. He has short medium length black hair in a twist hairstyle with golden under-lights.

While working, Asura usually wears a black long-sleeved jacket over a white long-sleeved shirt and black tie. His pants match the jacket and are ankle-length. He wears black socks and finishes off his outfit with a pair of low-cut black shoes.

Asura's full attire.

## Abilities and Powers

 "*While your pretty much incapable of learning or using any conventional cursed techniques, your aptitude for using reverse cursed energy should make up more than enough of the skill gap left there. Dare I say with a bit more training you could become a special grade, though that would largely depend on whether you have anymore room for growth after that. Though even then you'd pretty much be able to handle plenty of special grade curses with ease.*"

— **Gojo** talking to **Asura**
**Overall Skill Level**: Asura is an exceptionally prodigious and powerful sorcerer, undoubtedly one of Jujutsu High's strongest sorcerers. He obtained the rank of a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer as a student despite coming from a non-sorcerer family. He is noted to be incredibly talented despite his young age, accomplishing his grade 1 title after a mere two months of training.

A prodigy with skills that seem to have been born out of thin air, Asura is one of the most powerful sorcerers in Japan and has been recognized by various grade 1 and special grade sorcerers. Asura displayed advanced skills from early in his training as evidenced by his rapid rise through the ranks. His power is said to be roughly on the same level as Naobito Zenin.

* Physical Abilities
* Mental Abilities

**Superhuman Vision**: Asura has very keen eyesight, allowing him to see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, and color. He masterfully combines this with his exceptional marksmanship skills, allowing him to pinpoint the exact location of his opponent even at great distances. In addition to expanding his vision, he also grants him additional abilities, including but not limited to: see in the dark, perceive things too small for the naked eye, magnify distant objects, and even have incredible accuracy and/or precision. Due to this trait, he was able to see cursed spirits before he was able to use jujutsu.

**Superhuman Smell**: Asura's sense of smell is so sharp that he can distinguish between identical twins 20 feet apart by slight differences in smell. He can detect odors with concentrations in the atmosphere of thirty parts per million. In addition, his ability to remember odors allows him to identify anyone he has spent at least five minutes with by smell alone, regardless of whether he or she may be trying to disguise natural body odors. their way. His ability to focus is such that he can focus on a person's scent and follow them through a crowd at 50 feet away.

**Superhuman Hearing**: Asura's hearing allows him to detect a sound pressure change of one decibel at a pressure level of seven decibels (while the lowest threshold for average human hearing is 20 decibels). He could hear someone's heartbeat from more than 20 meters away or people whispering on the other side of a standard soundproof wall. Through practice, Asura was able to control his hearing, by mentally blocking out specific sounds such as his own breathing and heartbeat, all ambient sounds at his normal level of perception. Including people or all sounds except a particular sound it focuses on. Additionally, Asura's combined use of his super hearing can also give him tactical advantages, such as being aware of people lurking in corners, walls, buildings, furniture and making it nearly impossible for Asura to be literally blindsided.

**Superhuman Taste**: His sense of taste is sensitive to the point that he is able to taste the exact ingredients of any particular food he is eating. Asura's sense of taste enables him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel.

**Superhuman Touch**: Asura can sense the presence of his surroundings from vibrations, air currents, and body heat. He locates enemies through walls and various floors by sensing the vibrations they produce as they move, such as their footsteps.

**Enhanced Strength**: Asura's physical strength is enhanced beyond the peak of an enhanced human's potential, which has been showcased multiple times, most notably when he punches or kicks. Asura's superhuman strength also allows him to lift several tons. Asura has displayed his strength numerous times, as he was shown effortlessly carrying Megumi and Yuji, and soon after knocked Nobara unconscious with a tap to the nape of the neck. When he was 13 months old, Asura possessed enough arm strength to lift a rock weighing 15 kg (33 lbs).

**Enhanced Agility**: Asura's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Asura is extremely flexible to the point where he can bend backwards so far that his head reaches between his feet. He later displays the ability to dislocate his arm to extend his reach and dislocate any of the joints in his body at will. This is because of his tendons and connective tissues being twice as elastic as normal humans despite their physical strength. This flexibility additionally extends to his internal organs, as he was able to shift his heart and avoid it being pierced in the fight against Kenjaku and Uraume.

**Enhanced Speed and Reflexes**: Asura is also immensely fast, so much so that he completely matches the likes of Toji Fushiguro and Maki Zenin. This is shown during his fight with Jogo when he moves at imperceptible speeds, moving so quickly that even Choso and Yuji couldn’t perceive his blisteringly fast movements, the latter even remarking that he was in "a different dimension". He can run and move at immense speeds and even outrun speeding vehicles or cover a small area such as city blocks in seconds as well. Maki stated that Asura ran thirty-two kilometers in one minute after their warm-up jogging. His reflexes are similarly enhanced to superhuman levels, about 40 times better than normal humans. Using his senses, he can instinctively react to an oncoming punch with no effort, dodge close-range sharp weapon attacks by hearing their approach, and even dodge bullets fired at close range. Because his reflexes enhanced by his hyper-awareness allow Asura to react to thrown objects with lightning-fast reaction times.

**Enhanced Endurance & Stamina**: Asura's body is enhanced and is more resistant to injuries than a regular human. Though he is not bulletproof, he can survive extreme blunt force trauma, such as being hit with solid objects like his own staff, or contact with similarly strong opponents like Maki Zenin, Yuji Itadori, and Toji Fushiguro. His body is more resistant to impact forces than anything else. It can withstand great impacts, such as falling from a height of several floors or being hit with great force by an opponent. Events that could seriously injure or kill an ordinary person leave him with little or no discomfort. Allowing him to be capable of being thrown through multiple concrete walls, survive multiple stab wounds, and fight for multiple days and nights. Thoroughly fortifying his body with cursed energy has made Asura extremely tough. He can leap from the top of a building and crumble the side of the road from the impact without doing any damage to himself. Coupled with his ability to heal himself, Asura comes off as near invulnerable to even the strongest assault. He tanked several blastwaves from Takako Uro and Ryu Ishigori's Granite Cannon head-on without sustaining and prolonged injuries.

**Jujutsu Mastery**: Despite never using Black Flash prior to Shibuya, Asura demonstrated a prodigious talent in all aspects of jujutsu. Asura understands the essence of cursed energy and possesses masterful control over it. He understands the nature of how to make cursed energy flow throughout his entire body, allowing him to freely manipulate it as a part of his close combat arsenal. Another testament to his delicate control over his cursed energy his is mastery over reverse cursed energy. Reverse Cursed Techniques are notoriously difficult to perform for sorcerers but Asura can use it repeatedly without issue. Two weeks after learning how to use the Reverse Curse Technique, he learned how to heal others with it. He did this after less than a month of jujutsu experience. While most sorcerers couldn't use a reverse curse technique let alone heal others with it, Asura was able to learn how to do both in relatively quick succession.

**Great Tactical Intellect**: Asura is an extremely intelligent, highly organized young man, extremely cunning and highly adaptable to any situation. He shows himself to be very good at espionage, infiltration, counterintelligence and knows how to adjust his plans to account for changes, knows how to plan ahead and improvise new plans if necessary. Maki says that one of Asura's most trusted and commanding assets as a jujutsu sorcerer is his mind. He is a tactical genius, a warrior whose goal in battle is to outmaneuver his opponent rather than overpower them. Asura logically assesses all threats and responds to them strategically. Using his advanced deductive reasoning skills, Asura devises clever ways to handle each situation as it arises. This is frequently demonstrated by Asura's consistent talent for deducing his opponent's strengths and weaknesses in heated battle. Asura possesses a wealth of jujutsu knowledge and expert-level understanding, beyond that of full-fledged sorcerers. His basic understanding of jujutsu allows him to take the lead in missions, or even go on his own without much instruction. But once an opponent's weakness is identified, Asura can quickly devise a plan to capitalize on it, effectively using each ally's unique skills to achieve that goal. Such schemes, though often complicated and unorthodox, are often very successful and very low-risk, making Asura an invaluable leader.

**Master Weapons Specialist**: Through his hand-to-hand combat training, he has become an expert in melee weapons, but mainly uses the katana. Asura is an extremely skilled swordsman. He is very fast and executes deadly attacks that are hard for his opponents to avoid. Combined with his cursed technique, Asura can cut through almost anything. Asura wields his blade with grace and poise, striking with extreme speed and precision with each swing of his sword.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Asura has through time become an excellent hand-to-hand combatant utilizing a fighting style that directly complements his superhuman abilities. Its noted how he favors using kicks more than punches, as it deals much more damage and eliminates any height disadvantage, making him able to go toe-to-toe with tall opponents.

### Jujutsu

 **Advanced Cursed Energy Control**: Asura's knowledge of cursed energy is second to none. This knowledge coupled with his immense amounts of positive cursed energy allow him to freely manipulate it however he pleases. Asura understands that he carries vast levels of cursed energy and now knows how to apply it accordingly. His extensive training after enrolling in Tokyo Jujutsu High have pushed his control over cursed energy to the limit, allowing him to manipulate his cursed energy to near perfection.

## Battles & Events

**Cursed Child Arc**

* Asura Miyashiro vs. Special Grade Cursed Spirit
* Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

**Shibuya Incident Arc**

* The Shibuya Incident
	+ Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Dagon
	+ Asura Miyashiro and Hai Muta vs. Mahito
	+ Asura Miyashiro vs. Toji Fushiguro
	+ Asura Miyashiro vs. Sukuna
	+ Jujutsu Sorcerers & Choso vs. Pseudo-Geto & Uraume

****Sendai Colony Arc****

* The Culling Game
	+ Asura Miyashiro and Yuta Okkotsu vs. Takako Uro vs. Ryu Ishigori

## Trivia

* According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment method: Scouted.
	+ His hobby is watching anime and terrorizing seagulls.
	+ Favourite food: Chicken Alfredo or Beef Lasagne.
	+ Least favourite food: Alcohol.
	+ Cause of stress: Cursed Spirits.
* Asura loves to eat Junk Food.
* While Asura loves to watch anime, he can't find any time to watch it due to his packed schedule.
* The name ‘Asura’ (明日来, 波空, 空澄羅) is a Japanese given name derived from the Japanese word 明日 (asu) meaning "tomorrow" combined with 来 (ra) meaning "to come".