Jujutsu Kaisen

## Summary

**Jujutsu Kaisen** is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 2018, with its chapters collected and published in 21 tankōbon volumes as of December 2022.

## Jujutsu Kaisen

### Language

Japanese (Original)

**Synopsis**: The story follows high school student Yuji Itadori, who gets involved in the world of jujutsu sorcerers known as the Jujutsu Tech. The Jujutsu Tech is an organization that battles cursed spirits, which are born from human greed and negative emotions. These cursed spirits bring harm to humans, and it is the Jujutsu Tech's job to exorcise them. Itadori has extraordinary physical abilities, despite being a desk-bound teenager, and he is recruited to join the Jujutsu Tech by Satoru Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer in the world. tadori initially resists joining the Jujutsu Tech, but eventually decides to use his abilities to protect humanity. He undergoes rigorous training and becomes a member of the Jujutsu Tech, along with other talented sorcerers such as Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, and Panda. Together, they battle cursed spirits and try to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the world. As Itadori and his teammates face increasingly powerful cursed spirits, they also uncover the truth about their own pasts and the mysterious organization known as the Jujutsu Tech. "Jujutsu Kaisen" is a thrilling and action-packed series that combines elements of horror, comedy, and supernatural powers.

## Terminology

**Jujutsu Sorcerer**: The race of humans capable of using jujutsu are colloquially known as **Sorcerers** ( *Jutsu-shi*?), and the jujutsu prefix is often used to signify their alignment to Jujutsu High. Evil jujutsu sorcerers are known as **Curse Users** ( *Juso-shi*?) while humans who cannot use jujutsu are called **Non-Sorcerers** ( *Hijutsu-shi*?).

**Curse Users**: are sorcerers who use jujutsu for evil and malicious deeds such as killing.

**Cursed Energy**: Cursed energy is born from negative emotions such as grief and anger. These negative feelings are common in human society so almost everyone possesses cursed energy. If this amount is higher than a certain degree, it grants the person the ability to see curses, which is very rare among the human race. A jujutsu user's ability to control their cursed energy and use it to carry out certain functions is the base foundation for all jujutsu.

**Cursed Energy Detection**: Humans with an above-average level of cursed energy can see curses and jujutsu. The minimum requirement for a human to be considered a sorcerer is the ability to see curses. In extreme cases, humans will gain the ability to see curses when their life is in danger.

Using jujutsu leaves residuals of cursed energy behind. Residuals leave spectral footprints that can be used to track the user. Someone can even be identified by the residuals from their jujutsu. Expert sorcerers can be trained to cover up their residuals. The ability to detect cursed energy and understand its flow can be honed, but many cursed spirits are capable of hiding their presence the same way a sorcerer does.

The strength of a sorcerer or curse is generally assessed by their levels of cursed energy. Strong cursed energy can result in physical pressure that instills fear into those who sense it as a method of intimidation. The same concept can be applied to a jujutsu battle where reading an opponent's cursed energy is an effective way to predict their movements. Prediction based on cursed energy can backfire when faced with a fighter in cases where their physical prowess outclasses their cursed energy. Physically fast and strong fighters with low cursed energy are often unpredictable to enemy sorcerers.

**Cursed Energy Manipulation:** A jujutsu user's ability to control their cursed energy and use it to carry out certain functions is the base foundation for all jujutsu. There is a world of difference between being able to sense jujutsu and being able to use it. Yuji Itadori was able to sense the pressure of cursed energy surrounding his school, but was not able to utilize it until enrolling at a jujutsu educational facility. He was first able to utilize cursed energy in combat while he was overwhelmed with anger and fear, but could not do so in a calmer situation a few days afterward.

Control over cursed energy requires innate skill and vigorous training. In order for Yuji to develop his skills, Gojo had him undergo special training that saw him controlling his emotions and his cursed energy at the same time. Yuta Okkotsu, someone with an overabundance of cursed energy, was trained to control it by constantly imbuing it into a katana. By training with the katana Yuta learned to manipulate his cursed energy to a degree and was capable of using it to exorcise curses almost immediately.

Satoru Gojo compares cursed energy to electricity: it's volatile in nature and difficult to use in its rawest form. While raw cursed energy can be used for its blunt force, it's best used by sorcerers to power their techniques in the same way electricity is best used to fuel electronics. In this case, cursed energy is flowed into a technique to activate a sorcerer's unique abilities. However, cursed energy does not flow on its own. Yuji Itadori's cursed energy used to lag behind his superhuman speed when he threw a punch, resulting in his Divergent Fist technique. This delay was due to his inexperience with making cursed energy flow properly throughout his body.

Proper control over one's emotions is key to channeling cursed energy and every jujutsu sorcerer is trained to do so. This makes it so sorcerers don't waste their power supply even while they're overcome with emotion. This results in sorcerers leaking much less cursed energy than the average human. So much so, that if every human were a sorcerer, curses would cease to spawn. There are other differences in how sorcerers and non-sorcerers use cursed energy due to their profession, but the real reason lies in how it flows. While cursed energy leaks outward from non-sorcerers, it flows heavily within sorcerers which keeps it contained.

**Black Flash**: Black Flash is a phenomenon of jujutsu where a spatial distortion is born as a result of the application of cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. The distortion causes cursed energy to flash black, multiplying the destructive power of a normal hit. There is no sorcerer who can use it at will, but those who have unleashed Black Flash gain an advanced understanding of cursed energy far beyond those who have not.

**Reverse Cursed Energy**: Cursed energy is born from negativity, so human flesh can't be regenerated from it even if it can be reinforced. By multiplying negative energy together, positive reverse cursed energy can be created. This can only be done using a reverse cursed technique, which requires extremely complex and sophisticated cursed energy control.

**Cursed Object**: A curse that exists as an object rather than a fully formed cursed spirit.

* **Cursed Womb: Death painting**
* **Prison Realm**
* **Commissioned Curtain**

**Cursed Tool**: A weapon that is purposely imbued with a curse to aid Jujutsu Sorcerers in combat.

* **Black Rope**
* **Chain of a Thousand Miles**
* **Inverted Spear of Heaven**
* **Playful Cloud**

**Cursed Corpse**: Cursed corpses are defined as inanimate objects possessed by a curse that is capable of standing on its own. These types of curses that appear naturally are hostile to humans. Artificial cursed corpses created by sorcerers have a core that acts as their heart, allowing them to act independently from their creator until the cursed energy used to fuel them runs out.

Masamichi Yaga, the foremost practitioner of puppet jujutsu, was believed to create cursed corpses capable of following a set of pre-determined commands.

However, Yaga was could also able create independent cursed corpses that produce their own cursed energy. He developed the first Abrupt-Mutated Cursed Corpse: **Abrupt-Mutated Cursed Corpse**: Panda. Panda was born completely sentient and possesses three cores. Each of Panda's cores possesses unique traits, allowing him to switch between them and alter his physical shape at will, making him the most complex cursed corpse to exist.

Around the time of Panda's birth, Yaga was detained due to the dangerous potential an independent cursed corpse presents. The jujutsu higher-ups feared that he could create an army if he so desired and nearly placed an indefinite restraint on him. This did not occur, likely due to the influence of Satoru Gojo. However, jujutsu headquarters used the Shibuya Incident as an excuse to pressure Yaga. They threatened to execute him if he did not reveal the secret to developing independent cursed corpses.

Yaga had developed many independent cursed corpses with self-sufficient cursed energy other than Panda. Rather than an army, he made a family of harmless dolls that live in a forest protected by Tengen.

One of the aforementioned dolls was Takeru, a cursed corpse created with the soul information from Atsuya Kusakabe's nephew to help his sister's emotional state. Yaga made sure that this remained a secret because it could never get out that independent cursed corpses existed. This was proven when he was originally interrogated for creating Panda. Yaga felt that his ability was a curse and kept it a secret until his final moments, and used his final words to pass on the curse from himself to Principal Gakuganji.

To create an independent cursed corpse, a sorcerer must replicate soul information from physical information, then input that into cursed corpse cores. Additionally, the creator must put cores containing three compatible souls into one cursed corpse and have them constantly observe each other. Eventually, that will stabilize each of the souls and grant the cursed corpse self-awareness. Within three months' time, the Abrupt Mutated Cursed Corpse will also gain the ability to replenish its own cursed energy.

Kokichi Muta's Puppet Manipulation technique allows him to control his Mechamaru cursed corpses. Mechamarus are much more humanoid in shape and lethal in purpose than most of Yaga's creations. Kokichi can control numerous cursed corpses over an extremely wide range due to his Heavenly Restriction. Kokichi was also able to develop a gigantic cursed corpse that served as a mecha for him to pilot in battle.

Cursed Corpse on our wiki:

* Mechamaru
* Panda

## Page Contributors | Verse Contributors

### Character Profile Contribution

* Foria
* Nen
* DcDoesPhysics

## Power of The Verse

* Attack Potency and Durability
* Speed

* Mechamaru Ultimate Canon: **Small Town Level** - (4.801e+12 J)
* Sukuna Domain Expansion: **City Level** - (8.194e+16 J)
* Young Gojo Full Power Blue: **Multi-City Block** - (1.515e+12 J)

- Kenjaku Piercing Blood V1: **Hypersonic** - (Mach 9.2)

- Kenjaku Piercing Blood V2: **Hypersonic+** - (Mach 22.6)

- Naoya Blitzes Kamo: **High Hypersonic** - (Mach 35.1)

- Sukuna Blitzes Megumi V1: **Hypersonic** - (Mach 9.6)

- Maki Catches Bullet: **Hypersonic** - (Mach 5.4)

## Characters

* Jujutsu Sorcerer
* Cursed Spirits/Users
* Culling Games
* Other

* Special Grade
* Supreme Grade 1
* Grade 1
* Semi-Grade 1
* Grade 2
* Grade 3

**Gojo Satoru****Yuki Tsukumo****Suguru Geto****Yuta Okkotsu**

**Naobito Zenin****Naoya Zenin****Jinichi Zenin**

**Kento Nanami****Mei Mei****Aoi Todo****Atsuya Kusakabe****Masamichi Yaga****Gakuganji**

**Toge Inumaki****Noritoshi Kamo****Kokichi Muta**

**Yuji Itadori****Takumo Ino****Megumi Fushiguro****Panda**

**Nobara Kugisaki**

* Vengeful Cursed Spirits
* Special Grade
* Disaster Curses
* Death Paintings
* Others

**Sukuna****Rika**

**Tamamo-no-Mae****Smallpox Diety****Finger Bearer**

**Mahito****Jogo****Hanami****Dagon**

**Choso**

**Mahoraga**

**Kinji Hakari****Hajime Kashimo****Hiromi Higuruma****Ryu Ishigori****Takako Uro****Reggie Star**

**Toji Zenin****Maki Zenin**