Takehiro Mochizuki

**Takehiro Mochizuki** 望 (もち)月 (づき) 武 (たけ)博 (ひろ) *Mochizuki Takehiro*) is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and third year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High alongside Asura Miyashiro, Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi. Takehiro is a major supporting character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series and one of the main protagonists of its prequel series, Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High. He is the pride of the Mochizuki Family, having inherited the powerful yet obscure techniques Timeless Harmony and Divination. Takehiro is famed as the **Necromancer**, is one of Tokyo's brightest sorcerers and is regularly consulted by young inexperienced jujutsu sorcerers to guide and advice them about the jujutsu world in general, something which he doesn't seem to mind.

## Appearance

Takehiro is a teenager of slightly above average height with a dark complexion and piercing, greyish green eyes with long eyelashes that vibrate with an unseen power. Takehiro has black, curly hair. He has thin eyebrows. Takehiro has been described as having a lean and muscular build. He is noted to have rough, calloused hands. Takehiro wears a custom white Jujutsu High uniform with gold linings on the sleeves and pants and wears sleek sneakers with hidden blades in both of the heels.

## Personality

Takehiro is a complex individual. He's shown to be nonchalant, calm, friendly and relaxed, acting very carefree and often jokes with Asura, who he often tries to tease and prank. He loves to flirt with his female peers and tease the first- and second-years relentlessly. Takehiro seems to love making playful banter, often quoting some internet memes. He loves to eat food so much that when Yuta throwed a pizza slice away because he was full, he just elbowed him in the gut with no explanation.

But when it comes to his concerns, Takehiro shows his seriousness and calmness. He likes to show that he's a force to be reckoned with while still keeping most of his abilities hidden. He believes that you have to sacrifice your emotions and humanity in order to ascend to another level of power and greatness and respects people like Satoru Gojo. Takehiro likes to instigate fights with others and longs for opponents who are worthy of fighting him.

Takehiro thinks highly of himself and he openly boasts of his abilities. As a result his arrogance has led him to believe that he can do anything on his own and avoid valuing his teammates and teamwork. He appears to be condescending and rude at times, proclaiming that Yuji and Nobara are "silly dogs that should be supervised 24/7" and even calling Megumi and his technique trash and "something only edgelords use". However, he still respects their skills and talents and doesn't genuinely mean it.

He is shown to be quite intuitive, observant and sharp, seeing that the world aroung doesn't represent how it actually is. However, he has the understanding to keep this under wraps. Takehiro can manipulate others very subtly while hiding his true intentions and they won't realize that they've been manipulated, using his charisma to do so. Takehiro generally speaks in a confident tone, rarely raising his voice; he's seen to have a really foul mouth. Takehiro also has a condescending and somewhat sinister facial expression, often scanning the scene with his eyes; the only other facial expressions Takehiro has been known to show is pain, enjoyment and uncertainty.

Although he is arrogant, he does not look down on anyone and is very loyal to his comrades. His opinion of others often only go as far as his judgement of their strength, and he is quite apathetic towards anyone he deems weak. He also avoids confrontation or name-calling when someone is speaking behind his back, and completely ignores situations unless a friend is hurt, showing his maturity. Takehiro's arrogance can cause him to say outrageous things like "I alone have ascended to a level beyond the rest of you peasants". At first he didn't care about protecting the weak nor did he have any intention to do so, but after a dangerous escapade he changed his resolve. Takehiro puts a lot of faith in his fellow sorcerers and friends, trusting them to do the right thing and stay on the right path.

He also showes his dark side frequently as he's seen sadistically smiling and beating up powerful curses while mocking them. In battle, Takehiro has a crazed expression, smiling widely as if he's lost in the thrill of the fight, but he's always maintaining a cool and calculated head and plotting his next move. Furthermore, in a crisis, he is capable of being cold-blooded. He gets excited by fighting people who can match his power and strength. He thrives in threatening situations and enjoys taking risks in a fight. This includes his life-or-death bout with Hajime Kashimo where they talked and taunted one another in a competitive fashion throughout. Takehiro was regularly smiling and even commended his opponent for nearly killing him several times. He will prioritize his enemies' destruction over saving innocent people when he believes that the sacrifice is unavoidable. However, this doesn't extend to the people killed by his opponent, he will kill innocents if he has to, as a last resort.

He shows no mercy towards curses and curse users, slaughtering them with indifference and even glee sometimes. He is emotionally detached to the suffering and emotions of others, even if they remind him of himself at a younger age. However, when the curses are former friends and/or subordinates, Takehiro can briefly hesitate and ask himself if they are still aware of their actions while trapped inside their cursed forms; regardless, he hasn't displayed any problem in killing them. He doesn't particularly care about the higher ups, thinking of them as "old tanuki-screwing geezers".

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Takehiro is a very capable and powerful jujutsu sorcerer. He can fight in offensive, defensive and support roles making him a powerful and versatile grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer. He is noted to be incredibly talented despite his young age, accomplishing said title after a mere two months of training. His strength was also praised by Ryomen Sukuna, the undisputed King of Curses, for being well developed for one so young as well as being noted to be one of the few sorcerers to one day surpass Satoru Gojo. He displayed prodigious levels of jujutsu since childhood and has only grown in skill and power since then.

**Superhuman Senses**: Takehiro possesses superhuman vision, granting him extraordinary clarity, distance, and color perception. His abilities include night vision, heightened perception for small objects, distant object magnification, and exceptional accuracy and precision. He can also watch camera video feed in fast forward, analyzing each frame individually. Takehiro possesses superhuman hearing abilities, enabling him to hear exceptionally well. He can pick up someone's heartbeat from over 40 meters away and even hear whispers on the other side of a soundproof wall. Through practice, he can control his hearing, blocking out specific sounds like his own breathing and heartbeat while focusing on particular sounds. This ability grants him tactical advantages, as he can be aware of hidden individuals and avoid surprise attacks.

**Enhanced Strength**: Takehiro'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. Takehiro's superhuman strength also allows him to lift things weighing up to a half ton. Takehiro has displayed his strength numerous times, as he was shown effortlessly carrying Maki and Yuta, and soon after knocked Hakari unconscious with a jab to the forehead. He has been seen to easily lifting a grown man with one arm and throwing him, tearing through a wall with just one hand, punching through the guts of a fairly powerful curse and tearing open the maw of a hyena with both of his hands.

**Superhuman Speed and Reflexes**: Takehiro is 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 whole nother state of speed". 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 Takehiro 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 superhuman reflexes allow Takehiro to react to thrown objects with lightning-fast reaction speed. Takehiro even claimed that he could outrun a cheetah at top-speed. Takehiro's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete, shown when he maneuvered through a lush forest effortlessly and evaded Hanami's cursed technique with ease and finesse. He has the agility and combined acrobatic abilities of the most successful aerobatics and acrobats. He can also perform any complex stunt sequences in gymnastics such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or surpass any Olympic record in gymnastics.

**Enhanced Endurance & Stamina**: Takehiro possesses an enhanced body that is more resistant to injuries than a regular human. Though not bulletproof, he can endure extreme blunt force trauma from strong opponents like Maki Zenin, Yuji Itadori, and Toji Fushiguro. He can withstand great impacts, surviving falls from considerable heights and powerful strikes. Events that would seriously harm an ordinary person leave him with only mild discomfort. His cursed energy-fortified body allows him to endure being thrown through concrete walls, survive multiple stab wounds, and fight for days. He can exert peak capacity for hours without showing signs of fatigue, and he once ran thirty-two kilometers without noticeable exhaustion. Despite his incredible resilience and healing abilities, the Culling Games put a strain on his stamina and cursed energy levels. Nevertheless, he still appears nearly invulnerable even against strong assaults, as demonstrated when he endured hits from Hajime Kashimo without sustaining prolonged injuries.

**Regenerative Healing Factor**: In addition to his enhanced durability, Takehiro's body naturally regenerates most (if not all) damaged or destroyed tissues and organs at a rate faster than any living being. The rate of regeneration is normally proportional to the damage caused. This, however, does not seem to stop him from feeling the pain of his wounds. Takehiro seems to be able to control his own regeneration speed to a certain level. However, this process is still automatic. Additionally, Takehiro's natural healing also affords him virtual immunity to poisons, viruses, infections, disorders, imperfections, diseases, and most drugs. The unique regenerative qualities of Takehiro's healing factor also extend to his resistance to elemental extremes.

**High Tactical Intellect**: Takehiro is an incredibly intelligent and adaptable young man skilled in espionage, infiltration, and counterintelligence. He's a tactical genius and jujutsu sorcerer with expert-level knowledge surpassing most sorcerers. In battle, he quickly grasps the mechanics of Cursed Techniques, identifying strengths and weaknesses to his advantage. He adapts rapidly to opponents, counters their techniques, and processes knowledge at a remarkable speed.

**Photographic Memory**: Takehiro possesses a photographic memory. He can watch another person's physical movements and duplicate them without any practice or training, no matter how complex. Takehiro is able to duplicate almost any physical activity after seeing it done by someone else only once. He can use this ability to master complex gymnastics routines and learn advanced things about different subjects. However, he typically prefers to use this ability to copy the combat skills, both armed and unarmed, of costumed crime-fighters and expert martial artists from around the world. By reviewing recordings of movements periodically, he can retain duplicated moves indefinitely. When facing an opponent, he has already studied various martial arts, and can virtually predict his enemy's attacks. Takehiro can speak about eight languages with as much fluency as a native speaker thanks to his memory. The languages he's been seen speaking are English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Edo and Yoruba. Other languages he's been noted to understand are French, Italian, Dutch and Arabic.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Takehiro is an exceptional hand-to-hand combatant with superhuman abilities. His volatile fighting style complements his skills, making him a formidable opponent. He's an all-around martial artist, adept at creating openings in his opponent's stance and delivering knockouts. With superb defensive, moving, and timing skills, he can counterattack strategically and knows when to refrain from attacking. His style includes advanced jabs, strikes, punches, and kicks, with high-risk aerial moves. His quick judgments and masterly body control allow him to counter and dodge with precision, adjusting the power in his strikes and stopping his movements instantly.

### Jujutsu

**Deathly Cursed Energy**: As one of the Jujutsu High students with the most potential, Takehiro Mochizuki possesses immense reserves of cursed energy for a Grade 1 sorcerer. His reserves are said to be comparable to that of Satoru Gojo or even exceeding the amount that Gojo has. However, it doesn't exceed that of Yuta Okkotsu's. Similarly to Tomas, Takehiro's cursed energy is vast enough to use a Domain Expansion multiple times per day. In contrast, most sorcerers can only use it once. His cursed energy also possesses the special property of death-force energy that can cause things around him to age, wither, rot and/or die. Takehiro's cursed energy-reinforced physical attacks are therefore impossible to defend against, as his hits induce gradual necrosis and disintegration upon impact.
Takehiro possesses expert cursed energy control, surpassing most as he's able to open his Domain in a split second. 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 very efficiently and precisely. Takehiro has two cursed techniques that he can use repeatedly without exhausting much of his cursed energy reserves that he can utilize alongside reinforced physical applications. The first-years all noted that his cursed energy feels very malevolent and outright eldritch. Kenjaku, the devious mastermind himself, noted that he gives off "a demonic vibe similiar to that of Sukuna.

**Timeless Harmony** (不 (ふ)朽 (きゅう)共 (きょう)棲 (せい) *Fukyū Kyōsei*): Timeless Harmony is a powerful Cursed Technique derived from the Mochizuki Clan and is treasured for its overall balance and has few known weaknesses. It allows Takehiro to essentially manipulate the force of death himself through cursed energy manipulation at a sub-atomic level, resulting in multiple subsequent results and techniques within the overall ability.

**Purgatory** (煉 (れん)獄 (ごく) *Rengoku*): The neutral form of Timeless Harmony is called Purgatory. It grants Takehiro the ability to harness and manipulate the essence of death. He can passively generate death energy, creating an aura that radiates from his body. This aura makes him impervious to curses and dark entities, rendering them powerless in his presence. He can also sense death on a large scale, allowing him to locate cursed spirits, jujutsu sorcerers, or ordinary humans on the brink of death. He can essentially reverse any healing or regenerative abilities using his cursed energy. Purgatory has the ability to resurrect past wounds and injuries that a person or curse may have suffered, bringing back afflictions that the target had previously healed or recovered from. He can manipulate diseases and infect his target by shooting his cursed energy at his target.

**Cursed Technique Lapse: Dissect** (術 (じゅつ)式 (しき)順 (じゅん)転 (てん)「解 (かい)剖 (ぼう)」*Jutsushiki Junten・Kaibō*): Cursed Technique Lapse: Dissect is the second form of Timeless Harmony. This reinforced version of Purgatory; Dissect is the byproduct of Takehiro amplifying the Purgatory and negative energy, producing a slashing attack that allows Takehiro to perform an invisible dissection of his target(s). It automatically adjusts its power and precision based on the resistance and toughness of the target. Takehiro can manipulate Dissect's shape into that of a spiderweb, allowing him to destroy not only his primary target but also his surroundings and anyone caught within the web's deadly embrace.

**Cursed Technique Reversal: Sacred Cycle** (術 (じゅつ)式 (しき)反 (はん)転 (てん)「聖 (せい)廻 (かい)」 *Jutsushiki Hanten・Seikai*): Being an inversion of Purgatory, Sacred Cycle has the opposite effect. Using his reverse cursed technique to invert the properties of Purgatory, Takehiro channels and manipulates life energy for various purposes like manipulating living organisms. With Sacred Cycle, Takehiro possesses the capability to manipulate the lifespan of living organisms. He can accelerate the aging process, causing rapid deterioration and physical weakening in his targets. Conversely, he can decelerate aging, preserving someone's youth or temporarily delaying the effects of old age. When applied, this technique also simulates the physical and mental effects of aging, rendering the target thinking like an old person or an infant.

**Sacred Rebirth** (聖 (せい)神 (しん)甦 (そ)輪 (りん)廻 (ね) *Seishin Sorinne*): Takehiro's Domain Expansion creates an eerie Japanese temple composed by shadows. The shadowy temple can be solidified and entered. Enchanted Rebirth has a unique trait: no separate space is created, but a binding vow forms an escape route, vastly increasing the hit's effective area up to 175 meters. The domain traps both user and opponent, intensifying pain sensations for both of them. Past painful events are relived even more intensely. Takehiro can activate the domain for just 0.5 seconds, limiting its effect, and those he touches are immune to it. The domain also lets him create and summon eldritch creatures from the shadows that function like shikigami.

## Battles & Events

**Cursed Child Arc**

* Takehiro Mochizuki vs. Curse User
* Takehiro Mochizuki vs. Special Grade Cursed Spirit
* Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

 **Shibuya Incident Arc**

* The Shibuya Incident
	+ Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Dagon
	+ Takehiro Mochizuki vs. Toji Fushiguro
	+ Takehiro Mochizuki vs. Sukuna
	+ Jujutsu Sorcerers & Choso vs. Pseudo-Geto & Uraume

****Sendai Colony Arc****

* The Culling Game
	+ Takehiro Mochizuki and Kinji Hakari vs. Hajime Kashimo

## Trivia

* According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment method: Family lineage.
	+ His hobby is watching anime and listening to music.
	+ Favourite food: Pizza or jollof rice.
	+ Least favourite food: Sushi.
	+ Cause of stress: Being around loud people.
* He has Nigerian ancestry.
* Takehiro's favourite manga is Bleach.
* As credited by ChronoPsi, Takehiro's theme songs are "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots and "Be Prepared" by one of the shows main composers Hiroaki Tsutsumi and Che Lingo.