Akio Katashi

**Akio Katashi** (昭夫堅) is a character in *Jujutsu Kaisen*. He is the principal at Hokkaido Metropolitan Curse Technical College.

## Appearance

Akio a tall and muscular old man with gray hair, greenish-gray eyes, prominent wrinkles, and numerous scars on his body. When using his abilities, his eyes glow bright yellow. Akio usually walks around with a straight back, his chin high and a smile on his face showing not only his big stature in the process but also his very welcoming personality.

Akio usually wears a tight fit black business suit with a black tie and white undershirt.

## Personality

Akio has a rather serious, yet quirky, personality. Akio believes his relations to the students of Tōhoku, or any other jujutsu student, to be extremely important and always try to be easy to approach, even making sure to be the one to personally introduce any new student to the schools premises.

Akio is not often headstrong, looking before he leaps and taking time to plan ahead before taking action, although he does not hesitate to act if needs be. Even when entering into an unfortunate or unplanned situation such as engaging facing multiple high grade curses, Akio remains completely calm, pushing forward through adversity with no hesitation.

The only time where Akio will express his irritation and impatience is whenever his students, and even the students of other schools, are in danger and showed great distaste for the jujutsu higher ups when they wanted to execute Yuta Okkotsu, and a year later Yuji Itadori.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skills:** Akio is a powerful grade 1 sorcerer that is considered by many to be a model example of what it is to be a Grade 1 sorcerer. Despite his old age Akio possess good physical capabilities and is more than able to handle Grade 1 curses on his own, even being able to keep up with some special grade.
Because of his long life Akio has a lot of experience with the jujutsu world and possess vast knowledge of curses, cursed energy and curse techniques and uses those to teach and guide the next generation of sorcerers.

**Enhanced Speed:** Despite his old age Akio is able to move at great speeds, able to activate his technique before his opponents even realize it.

**Enhanced Strength:** Even without the use of cursed energy Akio is considered to be very physically strong, able to lift up a human being by the neck with one hand. When infusing his fist with Cursed Energy Akio is more then capable of crushing steel beams and decimate boulders.

**High Intellect:** Akio uses all of the knowledge and experiences that he has accumulated during his life when dealing with curses, even his student, and take great pride in his problem solving capabilities.

### Jujutsu

To activate his technique Akio needs first to make direct contact with the object, or person. This will result in the target getting shrunk down into a minuscule marble-like object. The technique will affect anything that is found within a specific range of space around the intended target, including, for example, fire or pieces of the ground. The weight of the compressed objects is reduced considerably, making it possible to hide or carry them around

## Trivia

* Akio is 195 cm tall (6'5")
* He weighs about 92 kg (204 pounds)
**Nomenclature**

* Akio (昭夫)
	+ aki (昭) - bright, luminous
	+ o (夫) - man, husband
* Katashi (堅) - hard, firm