Haruno Sugawara

**Haruno Sugawara**(汐華菅原) is a major supporting character in Jujutsu Kaisen. He is currently a second year student and a special grade jujutsu sorcerer. Satoru Gojo mentored Haruno and enrolled him at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

## Appearance

Haruno is a young man of slightly taller than average height with skinny body, short disheveled black hair and a pair of large black eyes. He wears a T shirt (usually white) instead of the school's uniform as he thinks of them as "suffocating". His normal attire also includes long black pants and black shoes.

## Personality

When he experienced his foster parents' death as a young child, he became moody and cold. He was merciless when he had beaten a thief on the street for stealing a woman's purse, even when there were many pedestrians surrounding them. He also cruelly decided to not use curse energy to enhance his physical abilities when confronting the leader of a thug gang to make sure the leader doesn't die too quickly in order to get revenge for the two elderly who took Haruno in when he first came to the city.

After entering Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School and getting to know the other second years as his friends, his gloomy personality started to change into a more cheerful and mischievous demeanor. Even so, he is occasionally still cruel and cold towards curses and the scums of society.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Haruno is classified as a special grade sorcerer through Gojo's persistence towards the higher-ups. Even though he doesn't seem to live up to his grade in the early stages, Gojo claims that his curse technique's potential is enough to secure his place in the special grade category.

### Physical Prowess

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Haruno has learnt various fighting styles and techniques in order to make up for his inconvenient curse technique's lack of offensive capabilities. He has trained with his friends and Gojo in order to improve his ability on close combat. This allows him to be able to fight with even special grade curses bare handed. By enhancing his body with a high amount of curse energy, he is able to throw out powerful blows while making his body more durable. He is also able to enhance his durability, speed and reflexes with his immeasurable amount of cursed energy. He is seen to be able to tank blows from special grades and outstripping even Hakari in fights to the point where the senior is unable to see his blows.

**Tactical Intellect**: As a special grade sorcerer, he is often paired with special grade curses. Haruno is able to work out the enemy's curse technique as well as its strengths and weaknesses with a limited amount of info. This allows him to think of a counter to defeat his opponent. He can also cooperate with other jujutsu sorcerers fairly easily, as seen when he teamed along with Gojo to remove the transfigured humans in the Shibuya Incident.

### Jujutsu

 **Black Flash** (黒閃, *Kokusen*?): A technique that creates spatial distortion when a user connects with an impact of cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. The phenomenon causes cursed power to flash black, creating a more potent attack to the power of 2.5 of a normal hit. Haruno has managed to pull off Black Flash during a fight against a grade 1 curse after learning of the Black Flash. He has also used Black Flash 3 times continuously during his fight against Kinji Hakari and is said to be able to continue the streak but held back to prevent any lasting damages on the senior.

This allows Haruno to increase his curse energy capacity and remove a target's curse energy storage without applying heavenly restriction upon the target.

Haruno's domain is so refined that it is able to level even Malevolent Shrine during his battle with Yoruzu and Sukuna.